Watch: Gurinder Sandhu becomes first Australian to take two List A hat-tricks

Queensland Player Gurinder Sandhu became the first Australian in history to pick up two List-A hat-tricks. He achieved this feat while bowling in the Australian One-Day Cup, also known as Marsh Cup. Bowling against South Australia in his first year as a Queenslander, Sandhu finished with figures of 4-44 in his nine overs. 

Prior to this hat trick, Sandhu had also taken a hat-trick against Victoria in the Marsh Cup final of 2018 while he was playing for Tasmania.

Sandhu, who came back for his last spell in the death, got the wicket of Thomas Kelly on the fifth ball of the 45th over with his slower one. On the next ball, he removed Nathan McSweeney with yet another off-cutter and he was caught at cover-mid-off by Marnus Labuschagne. 

Sandhu then came back in the 47th over and cleaned up Nathan McAndrew with a beautiful yorker. Earlier he had also gotten rid of Henry Hunt the opener. 

Apart from Sandhu’s feat, the match also saw the brilliance of Matt Renshaw who guided Queensland to victory with his brilliant 156 off just 109 balls. The knock was once again a statement f the fact that he is rightly being considered as one of the best going around in the Australian domestic set-up as was pointed out by Mark Waugh and Adam Gilchrist early this summer. 

Also making a strong case of his selection for the first Ashes Test as the Australian team’s first choice wicket-keeper batter was Alex Carey who hit a century in this game even as he ended up on the losing side. Carey scored 101 off 93 balls to give his team a great start. But the late batting order squandered it to finish the innings in the 48th over itself at 274.