Al Amin Hossain became the second bowler to take a hat-trick in BPL. The pacer took three consecutive wickets for Barisal Bulls against Sylhet Super Stars on Tuesday.

Barisal’s breathless victory at Al Amin’s cannon

This is Al Amin’s second hat-trick in T20 cricket. The previous hat-trick was a feat that no other bowler in the world has achieved in T20 cricket. Seber got four consecutive wickets! Not only that, Al Amin got 5 wickets in that one over!

Al Amin of Barisal Bulls got exactly 5 wickets in the match even though he did not get it in one over. He took 5 wickets with 36 runs in 4 overs. The main contribution of this pacer of the national team to beat Sylhet Super Stars.

Al Amin is the fourth bowler to take two or more hat-tricks in T20Is. India’s Amit Mishra has the highest three. India’s Yuvraj Singh and New Zealand’s Tim Southee scored two hat-tricks each.

Batting first against Sylhet Super Stars on Tuesday, Barisal Bulls capital was only 108. Al Amin made this run difficult by bowling on fire. In his first over, Muminul brought back Haque and brought the team the first break through.

A hat trick in the next over. English batsman Ravi Bopara caught behind the wicket. In the next delivery, Nurul Hasan bowled a great ball.

On strike next ball was Mushfiqur Rahim, who is considered one of the tightest batting techniques in Bangladesh. But Mushfiqur had no answer to Al Amin’s brilliant delivery. Another ball in off the length, Bells flew. Mushfiq literally broke the middle stump!

Al Amin’s partner Mohammad Sami scored the first hat-trick of BPL with the new ball in this match. Darren Stevens, Aftab Ahmed and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan of Dhaka Gladiators returned three consecutive balls for Durant Rajshahi in the first BPL.

In the 2013 Victory Day T20, Al Amin took 5 wickets in one over for UCB-BCB XI against Abahani Limited. Mehdi dismissed Maruf on the first ball of the last over of Sebar’s innings. The next ball was a break on the wicket.

Then Nazimul Hossain dismissed Milon in the third ball, Suhrawardy sent back Shubo in the next ball. With the fifth ball, Naeem Islam Jr completed the hat trick.

Nabil also dismissed Samad on the last ball of the over. He got 5 wickets for 17 runs in that match. This time 5 wickets for 36 runs.

This is the third time a bowler has taken 5 wickets in BPL. Al Amin’s Barisal teammate Kevin Cooper took 5 wickets the previous day. Mohammad Sami took 5 wickets for 6 runs on his way to a hat-trick in the first BPL.