World T20 2021 | IRE vs NED: Curtis Campher does a Malinga, scalps four wickets in four balls

The second day of the World T20 2021 was an eventful one after Ireland’s Curtis Campher rattled the Netherlands batting line-up. The right-arm bowler scalped four wickets in four deliveries to pick a double hattrick against their old rivals in the 10th over of the game. 

Campher became the first Irish international to take a hattrick in international cricket and scalped the wickets of Colin Ackermann, Ryan ten Doeschate, Scott Edwards and Roelof van der Merwe. 

Ackerman tried to pull a delivery going down the leg side but only managed to get a glove on it and the wicket-keeper completed the catch behind the stumps.

The Irish team went up for the appeal but it was initially turned down by the on-field umpire and in fact was called a wide before the review was taken and the ultra edge showed a spike while the ball was in contact with the glove and the decision was changed to out. 

Campher then removed ten Doeschate after trapping in front of the stumps to get two in two. The hat trick ball to Edwards was a touch fuller and seemed going down the leg as it hit the batter’s pads. 

But it was the Ireland skipper’s good presence of mind that he asked for the second review of the over and the replay showed that the ball would have hit the stumps. The on-field decision was once again changed and Campher had completed his hat trick. 

But Netherlands’ misery didn’t just stop here as van der Merwe dragged a delivery way outside off stump onto his wickets to give Campher his fourth wicket in the over. 

This is the third double hat-trick in the men's T20 internationals, with Sri Lankan Lasith Malinga and Afghanistan's Rashid Khan taking the first two.