When a bowler takes a hattrick, it is very difficult not to notice. Yet in the 2008 IPL, that’s just what happened.
It was a match between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens. Makhaya Ntini was playing for CSK and took 4/21. What people failed to see was that there was a hattrick too.
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So how did it go unnoticed? Well, he removed Sourav Ganguly with the last ball of the 5th over. However, he did not bowl again until the 17th. On that occasion, he got rid of Debabrata Das and David Hussey off the first 2 balls. Everyone thought he was on a hattrick but he had actually achieved it already.
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Only later after the match was it noticed and his name was added by the statisticians to the hattrick list.
Well, not something you see everyday. Getting a hattrick and knowing you did so only after the match.