England pacer Gus Atkinson created history during the second Test against New Zealand by picking up a hat-trick at the Basin Reserve in Wellington. By doing this, he became England’s first player in 7 years to take a hat-trick in Test cricket. The last hat-trick taker for the Three Lions was spinner Moeen Ali, who did so against South Africa in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Atkinson dismissed Nathan Smith, Matt Henry and Tim Southee with successive balls in his ninth over as England bowled out New Zealand for a modest total of 125 to take a massive lead of 155 runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Atkinson is the 15th English cricketer to complete a Test hat-trick. His first wicket came in the form of Nathan Smith with the third delivery of the 35th over of the innings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His next wicket was that of Matt Henry, who ended up edging the delivery straight to Ben Duckett, who was fielding in the gully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That left the experienced Tim Southee to face the hat-trick ball. Atkinson bowled a full delivery to the experienced Kiwi player which struck him on the front pad and umpire Rod Tucker raised his finger in an instant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Atkinson finished the innings with brilliant figures of 4\/31 and was crucial to England bundling out New Zealand for such a low first inning total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The young England pacer picked up a hat-trick against the Black Caps in Wellington to help his side in bundling them out for a modest first inning total of 125<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":1213553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[93164,791,226,98886,2226,985],"yoast_head":"\n