Australian pacer Scott Boland became the 12th from his country and overall the 49th player to register a hat-trick in Test cricket during the third Test against West Indies at Sabina Park in Kingston on Tuesday. West Indies were bowled out for an embarrassing 27 as Australia beat the young Caribbean side by 176 runs in the pink ball Test to clean sweep the three-match series 3-0.
Bowling just his second over during the second innings — where West Indies were already six down for 26, in a pursuit of 204 — Boland decimated West Indies’ lower-order, leaving them 26 for nine as the visitors were staring at New Zealand’s unwanted record of the lowest total in Test matches.
Boland started the 13th over with a wicket of Justin Greaves. The batter playing on 11 of 23, played for an inswinger, but the ball kept straight after pitching and took a healthy nick outside off and went straight to lanky Beau Webster at second slip. Interestingly, Greaves’s 11 made him the highest run-getter for West Indies in the innings. The No. 9 batter, Shamar Joseph, was trapped in front off a nip-backer from Boland to give him his second scalp in as many deliveries. Then came vice captain Jomel Warrican, who was cleaned up by a beautiful slower delivery, one that jadded back a mile to find a big bat-pad gap.
Boland’s Hat-trick Lights Up Sabina 🔥
Scott Boland rips through West Indies with a searing hat-trick as they collapse for 27 all out — their lowest Test score ever 😧#WIvAUS pic.twitter.com/uc8iPj3dS6
— FanCode (@FanCode) July 14, 2025
Boland’s hat-trick is the second one this year after Pakistan’s Noman Ali also picked three wickets in three deliveries against the same West Indies earlier in January.
Fred Spofforth was the first player to record a hat-trick in cricket. Playing for Australia, the right-arm pacer from New South Wales took a hat-trick against England in 1879.
Among Indians, Harbhajan Singh, Irfan Pathan and Jasprit Bumrah have registered hat-tricks in Test cricket.
Full list of hat-tricks in Test cricket
| Bowler | Country | Opposition | Ground | Date |
| F R Spofforth | Australia | England | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 02/01/1879 |
| W Bates | England | Australia | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 19/01/1883 |
| J Briggs | England | Australia | Sydney Cricket Ground | 29/01/1892 |
| G A Lohmann | England | South Africa | St George’s Park | 13/02/1896 |
| J T Hearne | England | Australia | Headingley | 29/06/1899 |
| H Trumble | Australia | England | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 01/01/1902 |
| H Trumble | Australia | England | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 01/01/1904 |
| T J Matthews | Australia | South Africa | Old Trafford | 27/05/1912 |
| T J Matthews | Australia | South Africa | Old Trafford | 27/05/1912 |
| M J C Allom | England | New Zealand | AMI Stadium | 10/01/1930 |
| T W J Goddard | England | South Africa | Old Wanderers | 24/12/1938 |
| P J Loader | England | West Indies | Headingley | 25/07/1957 |
| L F Kline | Australia | South Africa | Newlands | 31/12/1957 |
| W W Hall | West Indies | Pakistan | Bagh-e-Jinnah | 26/03/1959 |
| G M Griffin | South Africa | England | Lord’s | 23/06/1960 |
| L R Gibbs | West Indies | Australia | Adelaide Oval | 27/01/1961 |
| P J Petherick | New Zealand | Pakistan | Gaddafi Stadium | 09/10/1976 |
| C A Walsh | West Indies | Australia | Brisbane Cricket Ground | 18/11/1988 |
| M G Hughes | Australia | West Indies | WACA Ground | 02/12/1988 |
| D W Fleming | Australia | Pakistan | Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium | 05/10/1994 |
| S K Warne | Australia | England | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 24/12/1994 |
| D G Cork | England | West Indies | Old Trafford | 27/07/1995 |
| D Gough | England | Australia | Sydney Cricket Ground | 02/01/1999 |
| Wasim Akram | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | Gaddafi Stadium | 04/03/1999 |
| Wasim Akram | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | Bangabandhu National Stadium | 12/03/1999 |
| D N T Zoysa | Sri Lanka | Zimbabwe | Harare Sports Club | 26/11/1999 |
| Abdul Razzaq | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | Galle International Stadium | 21/06/2000 |
| G D McGrath | Australia | West Indies | WACA Ground | 01/12/2000 |
| Harbhajan Singh | India | Australia | Eden Gardens | 11/03/2001 |
| Mohammad Sami | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | Gaddafi Stadium | 06/03/2002 |
| J J C Lawson | West Indies | Australia | Kensington Oval | 01/05/2003 |
| Alok Kapali | Bangladesh | Pakistan | Arbab Niaz Stadium | 27/08/2003 |
| A M Blignaut | Zimbabwe | Bangladesh | Harare Sports Club | 19/02/2004 |
| M J Hoggard | England | West Indies | Kensington Oval | 01/04/2004 |
| J E C Franklin | New Zealand | Bangladesh | Bangabandhu National Stadium | 19/10/2004 |
| I K Pathan | India | Pakistan | National Stadium (Karachi) | 29/01/2006 |
| R J Sidebottom | England | New Zealand | Seddon Park | 05/03/2008 |
| P M Siddle | Australia | England | Brisbane Cricket Ground | 25/11/2010 |
| S C J Broad | England | India | Trent Bridge | 29/07/2011 |
| Sohag Gazi | Bangladesh | New Zealand | Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium | 09/10/2013 |
| S C J Broad | England | Sri Lanka | Headingley | 20/06/2014 |
| H M R K B Herath | Sri Lanka | Australia | Galle International Stadium | 04/08/2016 |
| Moeen Ali* | England | South Africa | Kennington Oval | 27/07/2017 |
| J J Bumrah* | India | West Indies | Sabina Park | 30/08/2019 |
| Naseem Shah* | Pakistan | Bangladesh | Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium | 07/02/2020 |
| K A Maharaj* | South Africa | West Indies | Daren Sammy Cricket Ground | 18/06/2021 |
| A A P Atkinson* | England | New Zealand | Basin Reserve | 06/12/2024 |
| Noman Ali* | Pakistan | West Indies | Multan Cricket Stadium | 25/01/2025 |
| S M Boland* | Australia | West Indies | Sabina Park | 12/07/2025 |
