Two KKR players who scored a century and picked a hat-trick in the same T20 match 

Scoring a century in a T20 game is a massive achievement in itself, whereas taking a hattrick along with it is somewhat rare and incredible. Two of the players of the Kolkata Knight Riders recently achieved this incredible feat of not only scoring a century but also picking up a hat-trick in the same T20 game. These two Knights who hold this rare record are as follows:

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#1 Andre Russell

St Kitts & Nevis Patriots v Jamaica Tallawahs - 2018 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) Tournament Play-Off 2

Andre Russell was handed the captaincy of the Jamaica Tallawahs for the Caribbean Premier League 2018. The Caribbean allrounder's first match as the skipper of the Tallawahs was a memorable one. The Tallawahs skipper on his comeback to the CPL picked up a hattrick and scored a match-winning ton against the Trinbago Knight Riders on the 10th of August, 2018.

Russel had won the toss and elected to bat first. The Trinbago Knight Riders were fresh from their 100 run win against the St.Lucia Stars. They started off well as they smashed the Tallawah's bowlers including the skipper Russell all over the park. Lynn and Munro put on a 98 run stand for the second wicket which set the Trinbago Knight Riders on course to amass a huge total.

The Tallawahs skipper had been smashed for 27 runs in 2 overs before bowling the final over. In the first ball of the final over he was smashed for a 4 by McCullum who scored a quickfire 56 off 27 balls before getting dismissed by the Tallawahs skipper in the second ball of the final over. Following McCullum's dismissal, Russell dismissed his counterpart Dwayne Bravo in the next ball and was on a hattrick when Dinesh Ramdin came out to bat.

He bowled a short delivery which got him his hattrick as Ramdin got caught at deep midwicket. Russell picked up his hattrick as the Trinbago Knight Riders set a huge total of 224 for the Tallawahs to chase.

The Tallawahs got off to a shaky start as they lost half their side at the score of 41 for 5 in 6.1 overs. The Knight Riders looked on course for a huge win. Russell was dropped off the first ball he faced which proved to be a blessing in disguise.

From there on there was no stopping the skipper who smashed the fastest century in the Carribean Premier League in 40 balls bettering his own record by 2 balls. He put on a 161 run stand with Ewin Lewis for the 6th wicket as they took the Tallawahs through to a memorable 4 wicket win. Russel scored an unbeaten 121 off 49 balls and was adjudged the Man of the Match for his all-round show.

#2 Joe Denly

Joe Denly

Prior to the auction, KKR had released the Aussie pace bowling duo of Mitchell Johnson and Mitchel Starc. In the Auction for the 2019 IPL, the Knight Riders bought the experienced English all-rounder Joe Denly at a bargain price of ₹1 crore.

Prior to Russell's all-around show, Joe Denly the KKR's latest recruit achieved the same feat on the 6th of July,2018 for his side Kent against Surrey in the Vitality Blast.

Denly opened the innings for Kent and led from the front to score 102 runs off 63 balls taking Kent to a total of 173 in 20 overs. Surrey got off to a flier as Rory Burns and Ben Foakes smashed the Kent bowlers all over. Burns got dismissed on 39 off 21 balls with the score at 98 for 2 in 8.2 overs. At the end of 12 overs, Surrey was racing ahead as they needed 44 runs to win off 48 balls.

Denly had already conceded 26 runs in his 3 over spell and was set to bowl his last over. He was smashed for a 4 in his very first ball by Foakes following which he bowled a dot and conceded a single in the next ball. In his 4th ball, he got the wicket of Clarke stumped by the skipper Billings. The next ball he got Smith LBW for a duck and was on a hattrick.

In the last ball of his spell, the skipper Billings picked up another stumping as Denly became the first player to score a century and pick a hattrick in a T20 match. Denly's game-changing over and ton took Kent to a 6 run victory.