Think it Over #4 - The Rabbit Out of the Hat

gchakravarthy — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:47:00 GMT

Over #4: The Rabbit Out of the Hat

Note: Go here for answers to and our "leader board" at the end of Over #3 of "Think it Over" .

It is the time of the year when Easter bunnies start becoming ubiquitous (at least here in the United States). Bunnies are not alien to cricket. We have our own share of famous ‘bunnies with the bat’, ala Chris Martin. But that is for another over. Praveen Kumar’s recent ‘hat trick’ in the IPL made us wonder about other magicians in the sport who have managed to pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat from time to time by achieving certain things 3 times consecutively. We’ll let you find out and tell us in this, our 4th over of “Think It Over”.

Take a shot at the 6 balls in this over by emailing us your answers to: FRONTFOOT@DREAMCRICKET.COM

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As far as hat tricks are concerned, who does not belong in this list of otherwise legendary top-order batsmen? (If you answered "Sachin Tendulkar is the only one who was one of the victims in an ODI hat trick while the rest were part of Test hat tricks" you would have hit this ball of the over, but not timed it well. That is not the uncommon fact we are looking for among these men).

Connect the cricketers in the first row among themselves. Then do the same for ones in the bottom row. Finally connect the top row with the bottom row. All the connections need to be made using hat tricks in Test matches.

These two gentlemen have something very unique and common between themselves, as far as Test cricket hat tricks are concerned that they only share with Nuwan Zoysa of Sri Lanka. What?

What was completely bizarre about this man’s hat trick which he took in a Test match? If you are thinking it somehow involved his legendary mustache or his big belly, think it ALL OVER again!

Which of the following is the odd one out ... or should we say, not out ... in the realm of the Test match hat tricks?

Here’s the last ball of this over ... who is the only bowler to have effected 2 hat tricks in 2 overs in any type of an international match?

Think it Over : hat-trick

Think it Over #4 - The Rabbit Out of the Hat