Sri Lanka veteran Lasith Malinga created history in Colombo on Friday, becoming just the second bowler to complete four separate international hat-tricks in the second T20I against Bangladesh in Colombo.
Pakistan legend Wasim Akram is the only other player to have achieved a quartet of international hat-tricks, with the left-armer having collected two in one-day internationals and two in Tests.
Malinga’s effort was also only the fifth time a hat-trick has been taken in the game’s shortest format on the international stage, joining Brett Lee, Jacob Oram, Tim Southee and Thisara Perera.
Given his incredible knack of running through a side’s lower-order, we’ve taken a look back at all four of Malinga’s international hat-tricks.
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