Stats: Bowlers taking hat-trick and scoring 50 in the same Test match

Stuard Broad had taken a hat-trick and scored a 50 against India once in his test career, in 2011

Cricket is a team game. All the players in the squad have a role to play in the side, even those who don’t make it to the playing eleven. It is the different skillset of the various individual players that combine together to form a team.

The same logic goes for the bowling unit. The different kinds of bowlers in a team gel together to form a bowling attack.

But sometimes an individual bowler is forced to handle the responsibilities of the entire bowling attack. There have been some memorable instances in cricket when an individual, through his great performances, galvanized his team by taking a hat-trick and scoring a 50 in a same Test match.

This list contains four bowlers and three of them belong to England and the remaining one is from Bangladesh, named Sohag Gazi.

It is notable that Stuart Broad features in this list, who had taken hat-tricks two times in his career; other bowlers who have taken hat-tricks two times in their career are Hugh Tumble, Jimmy Mathews and Wasim Akram.

Here is a table that shows bowlers who had taken hat-tricks and scored 50 runs or more in the same Test match.

Player Name	Country	Against	Hat-trick victims	Hat-trick innings	Runs	Venue	Year
William Bates	England	Australia	P McDonnell, G Giffen, G Bonnor	1st Innings	55 (1st Innings)	Melbourne	1983
Dominic Cork	England	West Indies	Richie Richardson, Junior Murray, Carl Hooper	2nd Innings	56 (1st Innings)	Manchester	1995
Stuart Broad	England	India	MS Dhoni, H Singh, P Kumar	1st Innings	64 (1st Innings)	Trent Bridge	2011
Sohag Gazi	Bangladesh	New Zealand	CJ Anderson, BJ Watling, Doug Bracewell	1st Innings	101 (1st Innings)	Chittagong	2013