In the sport of cricket, a hat-trick is an occasion where a bowler takes three wickets in consecutive deliveries. As of 2 January 2018, this feat has been achieved 76 times since 1934 in the Ranji Trophy, the domestic first-class cricket championship played in India. The first Ranji Trophy hat-trick was taken by Baqa Jilani. The most recent bowler to achieve the feat was Ravi Yadav. Joginder Rao is the only player to take three hat-tricks in the Ranji Trophy. After taking a hat-trick against Uttar Pradesh, Ravi Yadav became the first bowler to pick up a hat-trick in his first over on first-class debut.
Ranji Trophy hat-tricks
+Key Symbol Meaning BowlerThe name of the bowlerForThe team for which the bowler was playingAgainstThe team against which the bowler was playingVenueThe venue where the hat-trick was achievedSeasonThe Season in which the hat-trick was achieved
+List of Ranji trophy hat-tricksNo.BowlerForAgainstVenueDismissalsSeason 1 Baqa Jilani Northern India Southern Punjab Alexandra Ground, Amritsar Lall Singh Joginder Singh Yuvraj of Patiala 1934/35 2 Mubarak Ali Nawanagar Western India Poona Club Ground, Poona Akbar Khan Hari Mali Shanoor Khan 1936/37 3 Thomas Longfield Bengal Bihar Rangers Ground, Calcutta Edward Leigh Subir Chakravorty J. Das Gupta 1937/38 4 Jehangir Khot Bombay Baroda Brabourne Stadium, Bombay Vivek Hazare Subbanna Nayudu Mahipatrao Indulkar 1943/44 5 D. Narottam Kathiawar Baroda Dhrol Chandrasen Gaekwad Vivek Hazare Ahmed Patel 1947/48 6 Sarobindu Banerjee Bihar Delhi Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur Ishwar Dayal Hargopal Singh Gian Kapoor 1948/49 7 Chandu Sarwate Holkar Bihar Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur L. Sterling N. Chakrabarty D. S. Khambatta 1948/49 8 Probir Sen Bengal Orissa Barabati Stadium, Cuttack T. Ram Sastry Tamayya Sastri Nimal Padhi 1954/55 9 Venkatappa Muddiah Services Eastern Punjab Roshanara Club Ground, Delhi 1955/56 10 Vasant Ranjane Maharashtra Saurashtra National Defence Academy Ground, Khadakvasla 1956/57 11 Nandi Khanna Southern Punjab Jammu and Kashmir Baradari Ground, Patiala 1959/60 12 Nyalchand Shah Saurashtra Baroda Sahu Club Ground, Dharangadhra 1961/62 13 Hiralal Gaekwad Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan Garrison Ground, Jabalpur 1962/63 14 Umesh Kulkarni Bombay Gujarat Shastri Maidan, Anand 1963/64 15 Subhash Jhanji Uttar Pradesh Vidarbha Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur 1963/64 16 Joginder Rao Services Jammu and Kashmir Army Headquarters, Delhi Tahir Firdausi Vijay Kumar Malhotra Abdul Rauf 1963/64 17 Joginder Rao Services Northern Punjab Gandhi Sports Complex Ground, Amritsar Suresh Sharma Brij Mohan Khanna Bhupinder Singh 1963/64 18 Joginder Rao Services Northern Punjab Gandhi Sports Complex Ground, Amritsar Rajinder Kale Ramnath Paul Bishan Singh Bedi 1963/64 19 Ravinder Pal Delhi Southern Punjab Sector 16 Stadium, Chandigarh 1965/66 20 Bishan Singh Bedi Delhi Punjab Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi Surindernath Rajinder Pal Harminder Singh 1968/69 21 Kailash Gattani Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh Dr Sampurnanda Stadium, Varanasi 1969/70 22 Mehboodullah Khan Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh KD Singh Babu Stadium, Lucknow 1971/72 23 B. S. Kalyanasundaram Tamil Nadu Bombay Madras Cricket Club Ground, Madras 1972/73 24 Abdul Ismail Bombay Saurashtra Brabourne Stadium, Bombay 1973/74 25 Raghuram Bhat Karnataka Bombay M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Ghulam Parkar Ashok Mankad Suru Nayak 1981/82 26 Bharat Arun Tamil Nadu Goa Bhausaheb Bandodkar Ground, Panaji 1986/87 27 Barun Burman Bengal Tripura Eden Gardens, Calcutta 1986/87 28 Sourajit Mohapatra Orissa Tripura Barabati Stadium, Cuttack 1987/88 29 Shankar Saini Delhi Himachal Pradesh Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi 1988/89 30 Salil Ankola Maharashtra Gujarat Nehru Stadium, Pune 1988/89 31 Javagal Srinath Karnataka Hyderabad Gymkhana Ground, Secunderabad Ehtesham Ali Khan M. V. Ramanamurthy Rajesh Yadav 1989/90 32 Arun Singla Haryana Services Nehru Stadium, Gurgaon 1989/90 33 Saradindu Mukherjee Bengal Hyderabad Gymkhana Ground, Secunderabad 1989/90 34 V. Venkatram Bihar Tripura Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur 1990/91 35 R. P. Singh Uttar Pradesh Vidarbha Modi Stadium, Kanpur 1991/92 36 Anil Kumble Karnataka Andhra Ukku Stadium, Visakhapatnam Varadarajan Vijayasaradhi Vincent Vinay Kumar Rajagopalan Vivekanand 1991/92 37 Sunil Subramaniam Tamil Nadu Kerala Public Stadium, Thiruvalla 1992/93 38 Pritam Gandhe Vidarbha Rajasthan Indira Gandhi Stadium, Alwar 1993/94 39 Arshad Ayub Hyderabad Kerala Nehru Stadium, Kottayam 1993/94 40 Sagarmoy Sensharma Bengal Delhi Eden Gardens, Calcutta 1993/94 41 M. Suresh Kumar Railways Rajasthan Karnail Singh Stadium, Delhi 1995/96 42 Murali Kartik Railways Vidarbha Karnail Singh Stadium, Delhi Yogesh Gandhe Abhay Kale Trevor Gonsalves 1996/97 43 Anil Kumble Karnataka Orissa Ispat Stadium, Rourkela Robin Morris Gautam Gopal Subash Mohanty 1997/98 44 Anand Katti Karnataka Kerala Thalassery Stadium, Thalassery K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan B. Ramprakash Koragappa Chandrashekara 1998/99 45 Damodaran Devanand Tamil Nadu Orissa MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Gautam Gopal Sanjay Satpathy Shahid Khan 1998/99 46 Amit Mishra Haryana Himachal Pradesh Maharaja Aggarsain Stadium, Rohtak Virender Sharma Amit Sharma Chetan Kumar 2001/02 47 Ajay Barik Orissa Assam Permit Ground, Balasore Bachan Singh D. J. Gokulakrishnan Sukhvinder Singh 2001/02 48 Gagandeep Singh Punjab Uttar Pradesh Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali Nikhil Chopra Javed Anwar Mritunjay Tripathi 2002/03 49 R Ramkumar Tamil Nadu Karnataka Indian Air Force Ground, Bangalore Dodda Ganesh Venkatesh Prasad Udit Patel 2003/04 50 S. Sreesanth Kerala Himachal Pradesh Fort Maidan, Palakkad Manvinder Bisla Ajay Mannu Paras Dogra 2004/05 51 Rajesh Pawar Baroda Hyderabad Gymkhana Ground, Secunderabad Ibrahim Khaleel Narinder Singh Venkatapathy Raju 2004/05 52 Rakesh Patel Baroda Tamil Nadu Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara Dinesh Karthik Mumbai Shrinivas Ramakrishnan Ramkumar 2004/05 53 Joginder Sharma Haryana Andhra Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Chandramouli Prasad Doddapaneni Kalyankrishna Lakshman Kishore 2006/07 54 Sony Cheruvathur Kerala Gujarat Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Amit Singh Siddharth Trivedi Hitesh Majmudar 2007/08 55 Parvinder Awana Delhi Maharashtra Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited Ground, Nagothane Vishal Bhilare Kedar Jadhav Sairaj Bahutule 2007/08 56 V. R. V. Singh Punjab Orissa Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali Rashmi Parida Rashmi Das Sourabha Sehgal 2007/08 57 Vinay Kumar Karnataka Maharashtra Chatrapati Shivaji Stadium, Ratnagiri Ankit Bawne Ajinkya Joshi Ameya Shrikhande 2007/08 58 Pritam Gandhe Vidarbha Services Palam A Ground, Delhi Amiya Mohanty Shuvra Karmakar Pankaj Kumar 2008/09 59 Salim Veragi Baroda Tamil Nadu Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara Chinnaswamy Suresh Lakshmipathy Balaji Palani Amarnath 2008/09 60 Abhimanyu Mithun Karnataka Uttar Pradesh Bhamashah Stadium, Meerut Piyush Chawla Amir Khan R. P. Singh 2009/10 61 Samad Fallah Maharashtra Baroda Pune Club Ground, Pune Bhargav Bhatt Munaf Patel Yusuf Pathan 2009/10 62 Dhruv Singh Haryana Uttar Pradesh Mohan Meakins Cricket Stadium, Mohan Nagar Shivakant Shukla Parvinder Singh Ashish Yadav 2010/11 63 Pawan Suyal Delhi Assam Roshanara Club Ground, Delhi Dhiraj Goswami Arlen Konwar Ranjeet Mali 2010/11 64 Abu Ahmed Assam Goa Nehru Stadium, Guwahati Sher Yadav Sathiamoorty Saravanan Rahul Keni 2011/12 65 Siddharth Trivedi Saurashtra Punjab Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali Karan Goel Harbhajan Singh Manpreet Gony 2011/12 66 Krishnakant Upadhyay Railways Punjab Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali Uday Kaul Taruwar Kohli Manpreet Gony 2011/12 67 Mohammed Shami Bengal Madhya Pradesh Holkar Stadium, Indore Anand Rajan Amarjeet Singh Ishwar Pandey 2012/13 68 Rakesh Dhruve Gujarat Vidarbha Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur Shrikant Wagh Umesh Yadav Sandeep Singh 2013/14 69 Sreenath Aravind Karnataka Tamil Nadu M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Malolan Rangarajan Lakshmipathy Balaji M. Mohammed 2014/15 70 Mohit Sharma Haryana Delhi Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Virender Sehwag Parvinder Awana Navdeep Saini 2014/15 71 H. S. Sharath Karnataka Haryana Srikantadatta Narasimha Raja Wadeyar Ground, Mysore Sachin Rana Rahul Dagar Nitin Saini 2015/16 72 Basant Mohanty Orissa Delhi KIIT Stadium, Bhubaneswar Puneet Bisht Suboth Bhati Pulkit Narang 2015/16 73 Umesh Yadav Vidarbha Rajasthan Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur Kukna Ajay Singh Aniket Choudhary Nathu Singh 2015/16 74 Rana Dutta Tripura Himachal Pradesh Bengal Cricket Academy Ground, Kalyani Rishi Dhawan Sumeet Verma Mayank Dagar 2016/17 75 Vinay Kumar Karnataka Mumbai Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur Prithvi Shaw Jay Bista Akash Parkar 2017/1876 Rajneesh Gurbani Vidarbha Delhi Holkar Stadium, Indore Vikas Mishra Navdeep Saini Dhruv Shorey 2017/1877 Mohammed Mudhasir Jammu and Kashmir Rajasthan Sawai Mansingh Stadium, JaipurChetan Bht Tajinder Singh Deepak Chahar Tanveer Ul-Haq 2018/1978Shahbaz AhmedBengalHyderabadBengal Cricket Academy Ground, Kalyani Jaweed Ali Ravi Kiran Kolla Sumanth2019/2079Ravi YadavMadhya PradeshUttar PradeshHolkar Stadium, Indore Aryan Juyal Ankit Rajpoot Sameer Rizvi2019/2080Royston DiasMumbaiBiharMoin-ul-Haq Stadium, Patna Ashutosh Aman Himanshu Singh Veer Pratap Singh2023/2481Kulwant KhejroliyaMadhya PradeshBarodaHolkar Stadium, Indore Shashwat Rawat Mahesh Pithiya Bhargav Bhatt Akash Singh2023/2482Rishi DhawanHimachal PradeshPondicherryHimachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala Saurabh Yadav Gaurav Yadav Ajay Rohera2024/2583Shardul ThakurMumbaiMeghalayaSharad Pawar Cricket Academy Ground, Mumbai Balchander Anirudh Sumit Kumar Jaskirat Singh2024/2584Arjun SharmaServicesAssamTinsukia District Sports Association Ground, Tinsukia Riyan Parag Sumit Ghadigaonkar Sibsankar Roy2025/2685Mohit JangraServicesAssamTinsukia District Sports Association Ground, Tinsukia Pradyun Saikia Mukhtar Hussain Bhargab Lahkar2025/26
Hat-tricks by team Team Number of Hat-tricks Karnataka 10 Bengal 6 Delhi 5 Haryana 5 Tamil Nadu 5 Services 4 Vidarbha 4 Baroda 3 Mumbai 3 Maharashtra 3 Odisha 3 Railways 3 Uttar Pradesh 3 Bihar 2 Kerala 2 Punjab 2 Saurashtra 2 Assam 1 Gujarat 1 Holkar 1 Hyderabad 1 Kathiawar 1 Madhya Pradesh 1 Nawanagar 1 Northern India 1 Rajasthan 1 Southern Punjab 1 Tripura 1 Jammu and Kashmir 1
See also Ranji Trophy List of Ranji Trophy records
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