Veteran spin bowler Cameron Boyce has made Big Bash League history by taking the competition’s first ever double hat-trick.
The rare cricket feat requires four wickets to be taken in four consecutive deliveries.
A hat-trick is rare enough but a double hat-trick is almost never seen in professional cricket.
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During last year’s Twenty20 World Cup, Ireland bowler Curtis Campher claimed a double hat-trick, and Boyce’s is the first seen in top level cricket since then.
Campher was only the third player to ever take a double hat-trick in international 20-over games.
Leggie Boyce, playing for the Melbourne Renegades, dismissed four Sydney Thunder batters in consecutive balls across two of his overs.
He claimed Alex Hales, Jason Sangha, Alex Ross, and then Daniel Sams. In his third over he got Matthew Gilkes out to hold figures of 5-15 off three overs.
Boyce, 32, has played seven T20 internationals for Australia and taken eight wickets.
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