Records for FC Matches

Four wickets in four balls
Bowler
J Wells Kent v Sussex Brighton1862
G Ulyett Lord Harris' XI v New South Wales Sydney1878-79
G Nash Lancashire v Somerset Manchester1882
JB Hide Sussex v MCC Lord's1890
FJ Shacklock Nottinghamshire v Somerset Nottingham1893
AD Downes Otago v Auckland Dunedin1893-94
F Martin MCC v Derbyshire Lord's1895
AW Mold Lancashire v Nottinghamshire Nottingham1895
W Brearley Lancashire v Somerset Manchester1905
S Haigh MCC v Army XI Pretoria1905-06
AE Trott* Middlesex v Somerset Lord's1907
FA Tarrant Middlesex v Gloucestershire Bristol1907
A Drake Yorkshire v Derbyshire Chesterfield1914
SG Smith Northamptonshire v Warwickshire Birmingham1914
HA Peach Surrey v Sussex The Oval1924
AF Borland Natal v Griqualand West Kimberley1926-27
JEH Hooker New South Wales v Victoria Sydney1928-29
RK Tyldesley Lancashire v Derbyshire Derby1929
RJ Crisp Western Province v Griqualand West Johannesburg1931-32
RJ Crisp Western Province v Natal Durban1933-34
AR Gover Surrey v Worcestershire Worcester1935
WH Copson Derbyshire v Warwickshire Derby1937
WA Henderson NE Transvaal v Orange Free State Bloemfontein1937-38
F Ridgway Kent v Derbyshire Folkestone1951
AK Walker * Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire Leicester1956
SN Mohol President's XI v Combined XI Pune1965-66
D Robins South Australia v New South Wales Adelaide1965-66
PI Pocock * Surrey v Sussex Eastbourne1972
SS Sain Delhi v Himachal Pradesh New Delhi1988-89
D Dias W Province (Suburbs) v Central Province Colombo1990-91
Ali Gauhar Karachi Blues v United Bank Peshawar1994-95
KD James* Hampshire v Indians Southampton1996
GP Butcher Surrey v Derbyshire The Oval2000
Fazl-e-Akbar PIA v Habib Bank Lahore2001-02
CM Willoughby Cape Cobras v Dolphins Durban2005-06
Tabish Khan Karachi Whites v Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited Karachi (UBL)2009-10
N Wagner Otago v Wellington Queenstown2010-11
Khalid Usman Abbottabad v Karachi Blues Karachi2011-12
Mahmudullah Central Zone v North Zone Savar2013-14
AC Thomas Somerset v Sussex Taunton2014
KR Smuts* Eastern Province v Boland Paarl2015-16
M Mudhasir Jammu & Kashmir v Rajasthan Jaipur2018-19
Kulwant Khejroliya Madhya Pradesh v Baroda Indore2023-24
Notes: 1. The feats of Brearley, Hooker, Tyldesley and Sain were spread over two innings. 2. *Trott had another hat-trick in the same innings of this, his benefit match. 3. *Having bowled J Firth with the last ball of the first innings, Walker achieved a unique feat by dismissing G Lester, M Tompkin and GA Smithson with the first three balls of the second. 4. *Sussex lost five wickets in the course of the final (six-ball) over of their match with Surrey at Eastbourne. Pocock, who had taken three wickets in his previous over, captured four more, taking in all seven wickets with 11 balls, a feat unique in first-class matches. (The eighth wicket fell to a run-out) 5. *James is the only player to score a century in the same match. 6. *KR Smuts scored a century in the same match.