Post #892:
How do you get a hat trick in the sport of Cricket?
It's a bowler's statistic. He dismisses batsmen, (takes their Wicket), with three consecutive deliveries in the same match. In Cricket, a bowler cannot bowl consecutive overs, (an over is six legitimate balls bowled), in the same Innings, (one team's sequence of batsmen). In a Test Match or other First Class Cricket match, each team has two innings, (matches played over 3-5 days), so it's possible for the bowler to get a hat trick on deliveries made on three different days:
1) In the first Innings, he dismisses a batsman with the last ball of an over.
2) He dismisses a batsman with the first ball of another over, and the other team's Innings ends.
3) He dismisses a batsman with his first delivery in the second Innings.
I don't think this scenario has ever happened in a sanctioned match, but hat tricks spread over two different innings are fairly common.
The three consecutive deliveries must be in the same match.
It's not a hat trick if one of the batsmen loses his Wicket by being Run Out, (he's not within his crease when the bails on the stumps of his end of the pitch are dislodged).