You must have heard many stories of hat-tricks in Test cricket. 44 bowlers of the world have taken hat-trick so far. Among them, there are 3 bowlers who have taken Test hat-trick 2-2 times. That is, overall, the story of 47 hat-tricks has been written in Test cricket. And, one of those stories is that of a hat-trick for 26-year-old England bowler Gus Atkinson. Which is also different from the rest. The 6 feet 2 inches tall England fast bowler took a hat-trick in the Test match being played against New Zealand at the Basin Reserve in Wellington. Now how is there anything different in it, obviously you must be thinking about it? So the answer is the ground on which Gus Atkinson took the first hat-trick of his Test career.

World's first bowler to take a hat-trick on Basin Reserve

Gus Atkinson took his Test hat-trick by taking the last 3 wickets of New Zealand's first innings in 3 consecutive balls in the Wellington Test. With this, he became the first bowler in the world to script a Test hat-trick on Basin Reserve. He also became the first fast bowler of England, who has written the story of a hat-trick after 7 years. Gus Atkinson is the 14th England bowler to take a hat-trick in Tests.