Pat Cummins has become the first bowler to take two hat-tricks at the same T20 World Cup, after taking his second in as many matches, this time against Afghanistan in St Vincent. WATCH IT IN THE VIDEO PLAYER ABOVE.
Cummins first had Rashid Khan caught by Tim David at long on with the final ball of the 18th over.
As he did against Bangladesh on Friday, he had to wait an over before finishing the job. Karim Janat was next to go in identical fashion to Khan, before Gulbadin Naib was caught by Glenn Maxwell to complete the hat-trick.
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It should've been a double hat-trick, but David Warner failed to take a chance on the deep point boundary.
"It's pretty crazy, I've played hundreds of games for Australia without one and now got two in a row," he said between innings.
Having won the toss and sent Afghanistan in to bowl, the Aussies put together one of their worst fielding displays in recent memory.
They grassed five chances – including Warner's – leaked a stack of extra runs through misfields, and missed several run out chances.
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"I thought they batted well, but we did well to restrict the boundaries. Decent bowling effort, not our tidiest day in the field, but pretty happy with the total we kept them to," the Aussie Test skipper said.
"It was uncharacteristic fielding … I don't know (why)."
Afghanistan openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran put the Aussies to the sword by putting on 118 for the first wicket.
Once Marcus Stoinis got the breakthrough in the 16th over, the Aussie bowlers managed to put the breaks on the Afghani innings.
Zampa made it two and three in the 17th over, before Cummins took his hat-trick across the 18th and 20th overs.
Afghanistan set the Aussies 149 to win.
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