Watch: Pat Cummins Bags Back-To-Back Hat-tricks, Makes Cricket History

Australia had a dominating day with the ball during their T20 World Cup 2024, Super 8 match against Afghanistan in Kingstown. Asked to bat first, Afghanistan had a brilliant start as their Rahmanullah Gurbaz (60) and Ibrahim Zadran (51) stitched an 118-run partnership. Later, Mitchell Marsh and Co bounced back in style and scalped quick wickets to restrict Afghanistan to 148/6 in 20 overs. However, the day entirely belonged to pacer Pat Cummins, who created history with his back-to-back hattricks in the ongoing tournament.

In the previous game against Bangladesh, Cummins registered his maiden hat trick in the format. Two days later, he became the first player to register consecutive hattricks in the history of T20Is.

Talking about his brilliant spell against Afghanistan, the ODI World Cup winner first scalped the wicket of Rashid Khan on the last delivery of the 18th over. Later, he dismissed Karim Janat and Gulbadin Naib on the first two deliveries of the 20th over.

Is there anything that this guy cannot do?

Back-to-back hattricks & #PatCummins enter the record books!

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Cummins has now joined the likes of Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka), Tim Southee (New Zealand), Mark Pavlovic (Serbia), and Waseem Abbas (Malta), as they have also registered two hattricks in T20Is.

"Crazy. Played 100-odd games for Australia, (now) got two in a row. I thought they batted well. But I also thought we restricted the boundaries. They obviously ran well. Overall, decent bowling effort. Not our tidiest day in the field. Happy with the total," said Cummins during the innings break.

"Don't know, it's uncharacteristic (sloppy fielding). Maybe it was the lights.