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IPL Hattricks – from L Balaji to Y Chahal

Yuzvendra Chahal is the latest cricketer to record a hat-trick in IPL history when he removed Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Mavi and Pat Cummins in the last three deliveries of his bowling spell. A total of 21 IPL hattricks are recorded so far. Chahal is the fifth bowler from Rajasthan Royals to achieve this fear. No other team has more IPL hattricks than the Royals.

Leg spinner Amit Mishra achieved the feat thrice while all-rounder Yuvraj Singh achieved it twice. Out of the 21 IPL hattricks, 7 were achieved by leg spinners.

A total of eight pacers achieved this feat – Lakshmipathy Balaji, Makhaya Ntini, Praveen Kumar, Shane Watson, Andrew Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Sam Curran and Harshal Patel were the pacers to achieve IPL hattricks.

Samuel Badree is the only overseas spinner to achieve an IPL hattrick.

IPL hattricks : Yuzvendra Chahal recorded the 21st hattrick in IPL history! (PC: BCCI)
IPL hattricks : Yuzvendra Chahal recorded the 21st hattrick in IPL history! (PC: BCCI)

Here is the complete list of IPL hattricks:

PlayerBowling FiguresAgainstYear
Lakshmipathy Balaji (CSK)5/24KXIP2008
Amit Mishra (DD)5/17DEC2008
Makhaya Ntini (CSK)4/21KKR2008
Yuvraj Singh (KXIP)3/22RCB2009
Rohit Sharma (DEC)4/6MI2009
Yuvraj Singh (KXIP)3/13DEC2009
Praveen Kumar (RCB)3/18RR2010
Amit Mishra (DEC)4/9KXIP2011
Ajit Chandila (RR)4/13PWI2012
Sunil Narine (KKR)3/33KXIP2013
Amit Mishra (SRH)4/19PWI2013
Pravin Tambe (RR)3/26KKR2014
Shane Watson (RR)3/13SRH2014
Axar Patel (KXIP)4/21GL2016
Samuel Badree (RCB)4/9MI2017
Andrew Tye (GL)5/17RPSG2017
Jaydev Unadkat (RPSG)5/30SRH2017
Sam Curran (KXIP)4/11DC2019
Shreyas Gopal (RR)3/12RCB2019
Harshal Patel (RCB)4/17MI2021
Yuzvendra Chahal (RR)5/40KKR2022

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