5 players who took a rare hat-trick on international debut

4. Taijul Islam

Taijul Islam being mobbed by team-mates after his unique feat

Bangladesh’s Taijul Islam bowled his way into the record books as he became the first cricketer to take an ODI hat-trick on debut and the fourth to do so across both ODIs and Tests. He achieved this feat in 2014 when Bangladesh was playing against Zimbabwe and he returned with 4/11 off his 7 overs in the match. Bangladesh won the series 5-0 and Taijul’s hat trick was the highlight of the series. Taijul came on for Rubel Hossein in the 27th over and Solomon Mire was struck lbw.

His hat-trick victims were Tinashe Panyangara (bowled) whom he dismissed in the last ball of the 27th over and in the first two balls of the 29th over he completed his hat trick by scalping the wickets of John Nyumbu (lbw) and Tendai Chatara (bowled). Incidentally, Islam became the fourth Bangladesh bowler to take a hat-trick, after Shahadat Hossain, Abdur Razzak and Rubel. He celebrated by thumping his chest in ecstasy and at the fall of the 10th Zimbabwe wicket he was invited to lead the team off the field.