After claiming a hat-trick towards Bangladesh in Antigua, he repeated the feat throughout his final two overs in St Vincent. With the final ball of the 18th over, he had Rashid Khan caught at lengthy on, then with the primary ball of the twentieth eliminated Karim Janat the identical manner earlier than Gulbadin Naib hoicked to deep midwicket amid Afghanistan’s final push for runs.
“Yeah, remembered this one,” Cummins instructed the broadcaster between innings, in reference to him forgetting he was on a hat-trick towards Bangladesh. “Loopy to get two in a row after taking part in 100 plus video games for Australia.”
He might have had 4 wickets in 4 balls – a feat achieved by Eire’s Curtis Campher through the 2021 T20 World Cup – however David Warner missed an opportunity at deep sq. when Nangeyalia Kharote swung to the leg facet.
Cummins joined Lasith Malinga, Tim Southee, Serbia’s Mark Pavlovic, Malta’s Waseem Abbas as having two T20I hat-tricks. On the query of the brief time between them, Pavlovic took his on consecutive days in 2023, though had performed three matches in that point.
Cummins turned the second participant to take a hat-trick in consecutive worldwide matches after Wasim Akram who did it in consecutive Checks towards Sri Lanka in March 1999. Jimmy Matthews had hat-tricks in every innings of a Check match towards South Africa in 1912 with each approaching the identical day.
