During the 2nd T20I between Bangladesh Women and Australia Women at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka on April 2 (Tuesday), 21-year-old Fariha Trisna etched her name in an exclusive list. The left-arm seamer Trisna became only the seventh cricketer in the history of the T20Is (both men's and women's combined) to bag multiple hat-tricks in the shortest format of the game. On Tuesday, Trisna dismissed Ellyse Perry, Sophie Molineux and Beth Mooney in the 20th over to once again display her impeccable skills.
Trisna's second hat-trick in T20Is
The most impressive thing about Trisna is that she has only played seven T20Is in her career so far and already bagged two hat-tricks. Her first hat-trick came on her debut match for Bangladesh in the Asia Cup against Malaysia. By completing her second hat-trick on Tuesday, Trisna became only the third bowler in women's T20I history with two hat-tricks.
Bowlers with 2 hat-tricks in Women's T20Is
Concy Aweko of Uganda accomplished this feat against Kenya and Cameroon. Kary Chan from Hong Kong secured hat-tricks against China and Japan. Fariha Trisna of Bangladesh achieved hat-tricks against Malaysia and Australia.
In men's T20Is, Waseem Abbas from Malta took hat-tricks against Belgium and France. Lasith Malinga of Sri Lanka achieved hat-tricks against Bangladesh and New Zealand. Tim Southee from New Zealand bagged hat-tricks against Pakistan and India. Mark Pavlovic of Serbia secured hat-tricks against Turkey and Croatia.
Trisna's effort goes in vain
Despite Trisna's spectacular spell with the ball, Bangladesh were comprehensively beaten by Australia in the second T20I on Tuesday. Batting first, Australia scored 161/8 in their allotted 20 overs. In reply, Bangladesh could only manage to score 103/9 in 20 overs and lost the match by 58 runs.
Trisna, meanwhile, finished the game by registering stupendous figures of 4-1-19-4.
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