HAT-TRICK UNNOTICED
Hat-tricks are fairly rare in cricket above primary school level, but it must be unusual for a bowler to take three wickets with successive deliveries and claim a hat-trick a week later. G. P. Dryden, playing for Lancaster Park against Old Collegians in the President’s grade last month, took a wicket with the last ball of bls first over, two more at the start of his second over. But between these successes, the bowler at the other end was causing considerable confusion
by being hit all over the Lancaster Park back ground, and out of it three times, so that Dryden’s triumph passed unnoticed. A week later he was watching the test at Lancaster Park when he told a friend that he had just realised he had taken a hattrick. Inspection of the score-book the following Saturday confirmed his belief. It was a wonder he had not realised what had happened: It was his first hattrick in more than 40 years of active cricket.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31633, 20 March 1968, Page 11
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