Strike bowler Mitchell Starc of Australia became the first man to take two hat-tricks in the same first-class game in Australia on November 7, 2017. The left-arm pacer also became only the eighth player in first-class cricket history – and the first in 39 years – to achieve the feat. Australian leg-spinner Jimmy Matthews remains the only player to take two hat-tricks in a Test match after he did it against South Africa in Manchester in 1912.