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Just for fun, how many ways can you think of for a hat trick to be achieved in cricket with all 3 batsmen dismissed on non zero scores? In ODIs and tests? Don't think it has ever happened in an actual match - maybe it has in some First Class match and junkies like Tapioca would be aware of it? I could think of two ways in ODIs and three in tests.

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1. set batsman gets out caught in the deep on ball#5. Changes strike. 2. set bastman no.2 gets out on last ball. 3. first ball of the bowler's next over one of the new batsmen who got off the mark in the over in between, gets out.

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^ In tests you can have the same scenario as above, but the 'next over' occurs in 2nd innings. Also, you could another scenario. A bowler taking 9th wicket off 6th ball of his over, then taking 10th wicket off first ball of his next over hence finishing the innings. And then coming back in, say 2nd over of 2nd innings, to dismiss #1, who has scored some runs in 1st over of the 2nd innings. Another one would be out off 6th ball, out off 1st ball of next over (while changing ends, caught in deep etc), and out off 2nd ball.

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^ In tests you can have the same scenario as above, but the 'next over' occurs in 2nd innings. Also, you could another scenario. A bowler taking 9th wicket off 6th ball of his over, then taking 10th wicket off first ball of his next over hence finishing the innings. And then coming back in, say 2nd over of 2nd innings, to dismiss #1, who has scored some runs in 1st over of the 2nd innings. Another one would be out off 6th ball, out off 1st ball of next over (while changing ends, caught in deep etc), and out off 2nd ball.
To summarise - it is possible for the third guy to make a non-zero score because of (a) change of over (b) change of innings A third possibility is a retired batsman coming back.
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To summarise - it is possible for the third guy to make a non-zero score because of (a) change of over (b) change of innings A third possibility is a retired batsman coming back.
Aaah....I hadn't considered that. So, there is one more which I have in mind and has not been mentioned above.
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Well going into 'exotic' cases' date=' you can have a bowler getting injured/banned midover, and another bowler who is on hattrick coming to finish the over and getting his hattrick.[/quote'] Yeah that's the one I had in mind, but the other way around. That the main bowler picks up two wickets, gets injured and comes back later to pick the third. Tapioca, has any hat trick ever happened in FC cricket where all batsmen were dismissed after facing at least 2 deliveries - I scanned through the list of ODI and test hat tricks and could not find anything?
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Wicket of last ball in one over. Wicket of first ball in next over who gets out skying and the batsman on other end crosses and gets to strike and gets out on 2nd ball.

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Wicket of last ball in one over. Wicket of first ball in next over who gets out skying and the batsman on other end crosses and gets to strike and gets out on 2nd ball.
Good one this.

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