Neil Wagner 5 wickets in 6 balls

[irottev]

I thought this deserved it's own thread because it's something that has never been recorded to have been done before.

Neil Wagner took 5 wickets in 6 balls including a double hattrick. First 4 balls of the over and then the final delivery. It included a hattrick of "bowled" dismissals. Not sure how rare that is though.

Amazing feat and he'll be in the New Zealand side soon. So watch out! Him and Bennett opening the bowling will destroy sides.

 

[Spikey]

So watch out! Him and Bennett opening the bowling will destroy sides.

 

[Nate]

 

[_Ed_]

It's an amazing achievement.

 

[Howsie]

It's a real shame that his last match wasn't given this much attention as he threw the mother of all hissyfits while getting hit around at close to 15 runs an over for a good period of time.

He's a decent bowler and a nice prospect and while it's an awesome achievement he's not as flash as he's made out to be by certain people in the media.

 

[Flem274*]

Half the Wagner hype is because he's a good if inconsistent bowler.

The other half is due to him being South African.

 

[superkingdave]

a double hattrick would be 6 wickets in a row

 

[benchmark00]

a double hattrick would be 6 wickets in a row

Nah. Should be, but isn't.

 

[_Ed_]

a double hattrick would be 6 wickets in a row

Nah. 1-2-3, 2-3-4.

 

[James]

Nah. Should be, but isn't.

Really? You're saying a double hat-trick is in fact 5 wickets in a row?

 

[Jayzamann]

Strictly speaking, four wickets in a row is two instances of three wickets being taken in a row.

 

[Howsie]

The other half is due to him being South African.

That's basically it. An angry South African left armer who can bowl 140+ is all you ever hear about him really.

 

[cnerd123]

WAG...ner

 

[superkingdave]

Nah. Should be, but isn't.

Heh, must just be cricket, its not the case in football or ice hockey.

Someone just wrote an article about it in WSC actually, about how there is no term to call 4 goals.

OK, they scored hat-tricks, but when you’ve scored four, no one actually calls it a hat-trick. Arguably, they scored two hat-tricks, if you take goals one to three, and goals two to four, as separate sequences. But only if you score six goals are you credited with a double hat-trick. It seems very strange that in almost a century and a half of football, no one has come up with a term to celebrate the scoring of four goals (or five) in a game. It’s as though there’s a lingering amateur ethos that says scoring three is jolly good, but four or more is rather unsporting because it humiliates the opposition.

http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/7050/38/

 

[benchmark00]

Really? You're saying a double hat-trick is in fact 5 wickets in a row?

What? No.

4 wickets in a row is a double hat trick.

 

[_Ed_]

Heh, must just be cricket, its not the case in football or ice hockey.

But if we had the same meaning of the term hattrick as those sports do, any three-wicket bag would be called one.

 

[superkingdave]

Ah apparently

Four wickets in four balls is referred to in cricket literature and record books as four in four but the term double hat-trick has also been used in the media

Hat-trick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[andyc]

W W W W

Double hattrick

 

[superkingdave]

W W W W

Double hattrick

1-100, 2-101...double century?

 

[Howe_zat]

Double Hat-trick?!