The Hundred 2024: Oval Invincible’s Sam Curran creates history, only the third player to do so in the tournament
Sam Curran did this feat against London Spirit Sam Curran (Image Credit- Twitter X) Sam Curran bags maiden hat-trick in The Hundred 2024: England cricket team’s all-rounder Sam Curran is seen in great form in the ongoing The Hundred Men’s Tournament. And he has shown his form by taking a hat-trick for the first time in the ongoing season. So with this hat-trick, he has become the third player to do so in the tournament. Sam achieved this feat by taking the wickets of London Spirit’s Liam Dawson, Ollie Stone and Andre Russell. Before Sam, former South African spinner Imran Tahir in 2021 and Tymal Mills in 2023 have taken hat-tricks. It is worth noting that the 15th match of the ongoing tournament was played on 4 August between London Spirit vs Oval Invincibles. So, on the basis of the brilliant performance of Sam Curran in this match, Oval Invincibles led by Sam Billings won the match by 30 runs. See how Sam Curran completed his hat-trick Today @CurranSM became the third player to take a hat-trick in the men’s hundred. Was thrilled to be on commentary on BBC Two when it happened. What a player💯 pic.twitter.com/qYquILjgPa — Aatif Nawaz (@AatifNawaz) August 4, 2024 Oval Invincibles won the match by 30 runs due to the all-round performance of Sam Curran So if we tell you about the match in detail, then batting first, Oval scored a total of 147 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in the stipulated 100 balls. After the top order failed, Sam Curran played a brilliant innings of 51 runs in 22 balls with the help of 6 sixes in the middle order. After this, when London Spirit came out to chase the target of 148 runs given by Oval Invincibles, they were all out for 117 runs in 95 balls and lost the match by 30 runs. After batting for Oval, Sam Curran also performed brilliantly in bowling. Sam took five wickets giving just 16 runs in 20 balls. Apart from this, Adam Zampa got 3 wickets and Will Jack and Nathan Souter got 1-1 wickets.