Jordan Clark removes Joe Root, Kane Williamson and Jonny Bairstow in stunning Roses hat-trick
Root, Williamson and Bairstow removed as Clark bags hat-trick in Roses County Championship match at Old Trafford
Monday 23 July 2018 11:18, UK
Jordan Clark removed Joe Root, Kane Williamson and Jonny Bairstow from successive balls to complete a sensational hat-trick in the Roses Specsavers County Championship match at Old Trafford.
Lancashire seamer Clark pinned Root (22) and Williamson (0) lbw and then had Bairstow (0) caught behind by Jos Buttler at third slip as Yorkshire tumbled from 59-1 to 59-4 in the 19th over on day one in Manchester.
Clark, the first Lancashire bowler to take a hat-trick in a Roses match since Ken Higgs at Headingley in 1968, dismissed three players with a combined 14, 639 runs in the Test arena.
England Test captain Root had hit the second and third balls of Clark's second over for four but the paceman got his own back by removing the player ranked third in the ICC Test rankings.
The 27-year-old proceeded to pick up the wickets of the batsmen ranked at No 4 (Williamson) and No 16 (Bairstow) to spark wild celebrations.
Clark ended with career-best figures of 5-58 after ousting tailenders Jack Brooks (14) and Ben Coad (15), while he also ran out Tim Bresnan for a duck brilliantly off his own bowling as Yorkshire were dismissed for 192.
However, the White Rose county fought back brilliantly as Ben Coad (3-28) took three wickets in an over to help bowl out Lancashire for just 109 - Buttler caught by Bairstow off Bresnan for three.
Other great hat-tricks
Australia's Glenn McGrath and India's Irfan Pathan claimed two of the most memorable Test hat-tricks in Test cricket.
McGrath picked up Windies' Sherwin Campbell, Brian Lara and Jimmy Adams at the WACA in Perth in December 2000, with Pathan dismissing Pakistan's Salman Butt, Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf in Karachi in January 2006.
Australian Clint McKay bagged a stunning ODI hat-trick against England in Cardiff in September 2013 when he accounted for Kevin Pietersen, Jonathan Trott and Root.
However, Pakistan's Aaqib Javed would probably argue his was better - the swing bowler removing Ravi Shastri, Mohammad Azharuddin and Sachin Tendulkar lbw in Sharjah in October 1991.
But, veering away from cricket, baseball's Carl Hubbell struck out five future Hall of Famers in a row - Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin - in the 1934 All-Star Game in Manhattan.
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