Taking three wickets on successive balls is popular as a hat-trick in cricket sport to be achieved by the bowler. In twenty20 format, it becomes more difficult to take hat-trick as a bowler gets only four overs in the 20-over game.
Australia cricketer Brett Lee became first bowler to take a hat trick in T20I when he dismissed three Bangladeshi batsmen during 2007 t20 world cup match at Cape Town.
Latest hat-trick in twenty20 international cricket was taken by Deepak Chahar against Bangladesh in November 2019. Lasith Malinga is the only bowler to take two hat-tricks in T20Is. Let’s have a look at the complete of hat tricks taken by bowlers in international twenty20 matches.
Hat-trick in T20Is
| Sr. No. | DATE | BOWLER | VENUE |
| 1 | 16 September 2007 | Brett Lee (Australia) | Cape Town |
| 2 | 2 September 2009 | Jacob Oram (New Zealand) | Colombo |
| 3 | 26 December 2010 | Tim Southee (New Zealand) | Auckland |
| 4 | 12 February 2016 | Thisara Perera (Sri Lanka) | Ranchi |
| 5 | 6 April 2017 | Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka) | Colombo |
| 6 | 27 October 2017 | Faheem Ashraf (Pakistan) | Abu Dhabi |
| 7 | 24 February 2019 | Rashid Khan (Afghanistan) | Dehradun |
| 8 | 6 September 2019 | Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka) | Kandy |
| 9 | 5 October 2019 | Mohammad Hasnain (Pakistan) | Lahore |
| 10 | 9 October 2019 | Khawar Ali (Oman) | Muscat |
| 11 | 19 October 2019 | Norman Vanua (Papua New Guinea) | Dubai |
| 12 | 10 November 2019 | Deepak Chahar (India) | Nagpur |