https://www.zerowicket.com/the-ten-greatest-double-hat-tricks-in-history-cricket-15471/

Agree it needs a better name. But it does seem to be the name. Goodness knows what it gets called when someone takes two separate hat-tricks in an innings, or manages that elusive six wickets in six balls…

The IPL and BBL have done a reasonably good job of ensuring some sense of team identity has emerged, by having the same core of players and largely allowing the same franchises to exist for an extended period. Other leagues do not have this advantage and seem to be in constant flux, existing for a matter of months of even weeks and then fading away, ready to be reconstituted or not next year.

This is why it struck me as mad that the ECB mimicked the franchise model for The Hundred. It’s not a style of competition that’s well-embedded in English sports culture and doesn’t even work all that well, outside the IPL and BBL.

Golf has albatrosses, eagles, birdies, par, bogie and double bogie. Surely cricket can support more terms than just confusing variants of ‘hat trick’?

…a bunch of freelancers temporarily rallied round a photocopied flag.

That’s a magnificent phrase. It should be used to replace all corporate taglines. Starbucks – a bunch of freelancers temporarily rallied round a photocopied flag. Accenture – a bunch of freelancers temporarily rallied round a photocopied flag. Amazon… you get the idea.

In fact, when I am in charge I will make this THE LAW.

To be fair on Bail-out, btw, the Aussie commentator on the Rwanda match refers to the four-in-four exclusively as a double-hat-trick.

In a partial (idiosyncratic) answer to the “shallowness of franchise matches” question, I find a tournament such as the U19 Women’s World Cup orders of magnitude more interesting than franchise tournaments.

Achievements by Henriette Ishimwe and a youthful Rwanda team has meaning to me, whereas just another T20 (or Hundred) franchise/match is so much “so what”.

You’re slightly undermining your Nostradamus tipping performance by using the term ‘double hat trick’ you know.

Can’t find any footage of her two wickets in Rwanda’s one-run win over Ireland in the warm-up matches, but here’s Henriette Ishimwe’s double hat-trick as Rwanda achieved their first ever victory at a global ICC tournament with a 39-run win over Zimbabwe. Now very likely Rwanda will reach the Super Six stage, although given the bizarre nature of this tournament’s Super 6- it isn’t a round robin, since the top-ranked teams avoid playing each other while the teams that sneak in as third in their groups don’t get the chance to nick points off each other either – it’s almost inconceivable, having lost to Pakistan and likely losing to England on Thursday, that Rwanda could progress from the Super 6.

https://www.icc-cricket.com/video/3025420

To be fair it’s not a very strong Zimbabwe team so an upset was always possible. They managed to lose twice to Indonesia in the warm-up matches, first by 1 wicket and then by 15 runs in the replay. Then in the first match of the tournament proper, scored 25 runs against England off 12 overs to fall to a 174-run defeat. But whoever it’s against, you’d take a World Cup double hat-trick on your CV, wouldn’t you?

The premise of the article is really, ‘how can we very quickly do an anything-but-thorough analysis?’