How Many Wickets Constitute a Double Hat-Trick? (The Rarest Feat in Cricket)

A dramatic 4K image of four cricket stumps being broken and glowing with cyan, magenta, gold, and purple neon light after being hit by a cricket ball. Bails are flying, and a cheering crowd is in the background under stadium lights. This visualizes a double hat-trick.

In cricket, everyone knows what a hat-trick is: 3 wickets in 3 balls. It is a moment of magic. But every once in a while, a bowler produces something even more miraculous: the Double Hat-Trick. The name itself is confusing. Does “double” mean 6 wickets? Actually, no. The answer is 4 wickets. Here is the […]