Australia pacer Pat Cummins reveals that he had no idea about his hat-trick ball in the match against Bangladesh in Super Eight stage of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024.

Australia beat Bangladesh by 28 runs (DLS method) on Friday (21st June) in North Sound. Earlier, Bangladesh posted a middling total of 140 on the board on a good wicket. Captain Najmul Hossain Shanto's gutsy knock of 41 and then a decent innings of Towhid Hridoy (40 off 28) helped Bangladesh reached the mark. In reply, Travis Head and David Warner gave Australia a flying start and Warner brought up a fifty before the rain stopped the play and Australia won the match by DLS method.

Cummins took a hat-trick in the match as he got the wickets of Mahmudullah Riyad and Mahedi Hasan in the last two balls of the 18^th over. Then, in the first ball of the 20^th over, he dismissed the set batter Hridoy to complete his hat-trick. Ashton Agar and Nathan Ellis, who are on the bench for this match, had a hat-trick previously for Australia in T20Is. Cummins joins the list and bags the hat-trick as a second Australian after Brett Lee in the T20 World Cup.

Cummins shares joy after the achievement. “I had no idea (on the hat-trick), then saw when it came up on the screen. Set batter in, playing the innings, you never know how it'll go about, so that was a big wicket (on Hridoy's wicket) and happy to have restricted them. Few (hat-tricks) in juniors, never for Australia. Agar and Ellis, on the bench, have hat-tricks, joined their club. It's pretty awesome to tick that off. Good club to be part of. Fairly polished performance, the goal was to win and we did well with the run-rate, we'll need to continue with the momentum going ahead in the Super 8s,” Cummins said.