Sports Challenge

[Bristolian]

First to take a hat-trick of wickets?

[dtaai-maai]

He was an Australian.
He took a hat-trick against England at least once.
He played more than 100 years ago.

Can you tell me who he was? If you're bored, I'll tell you.

[redzonerocker]

Fred Spofforth?
First to take a hat trick in test cricket & first to 50 test wickets.

Once helped the Aussies defeat England at lords with figures of 10/20, bowling them out twice in one day for 33 & 19

[lindosfan1]

redzonerocker reckon you are right, he is the bowler that bowled the MCC out in the match where the bails were burnt, therefore becoming the start of the ashes

[dtaai-maai]

Good try, chaps, but no.

He did something only three bowlers have ever done.

[lindosfan1]

Hugh Trumble got 2 hatricks in 1902 and 1904 the only other playes to have done this were Jimmy Mathews and Wasim Akram

[dtaai-maai]

That's the feller! Well done lindos.

[redzonerocker]

Hugh Trumble got 2 hatricks in 1902 and 1904

Well done lindos

Were you at the games?? . . . . . .