On Day 1 of the ongoing Test between Bangladesh and Pakistan, Bangladesh top order batters achieved an unintended hat-trick. A hat-trick that no set of batters in cricket would like to create. The top three batters of the team were dismissed for the same score of 14 runs. Saif Hassan, Shaheen Afridi and Najmul Hossain lost their wickets to Pakistan bowlers after scoring 14 runs each. Bangladesh batters repeated the unintended feat of Australian batters after a long gap of 36 years.
14 runs each
After winning the toss and opting to bat first, Bangladesh didn’t have a good start as the record suggests. Their opener Hassan lost his wicket to Shaheen Shah Afridi for 14 runs. The ball hit Hassan’s bat and rose up making it easy for short-leg fielder to catch it. At the score of 33, opener Islam was dismissed by Hasan Ali for 14 runs who was adjudged LBW. Though he took a review but with ball tracking it was clear that the ball had struck him on the knee roll and with three reds he returned to the pavilion. Shanto was the third to be dismissed on 14 runs by Faheem Ashraf. He was caught at point position by Sajid Khan.
A rare feat after 36 years
In this way, Bangladeshi batters have equalled the feat achieved by three unlucky Australian batters over three and a half decade ago. In the 1985 Birmingham Test against England, Australia's top three batsmen Andrew Hilditch, Graeme Wood, and Kepler Wessels were dismissed after scoring 10 runs each. That was the first time something like this happened in the history of Test cricket.