List of Test cricket hat-tricks
In the sport of cricket, a hat-trick is an occasion where a bowler takes three wickets in consecutive deliveries, dismissing three different batsmen. As of February 2020, this feat has only been achieved 45 times in more than two thousand Test matches, the form of the sport in which national representative teams compete in matches of up to five days' duration. The first Test hat-trick was recorded on 2 January 1879, in only the third Test match to take place, by the Australian pace bowler Fred Spofforth, nicknamed "The Demon Bowler", who dismissed three English batsmen with consecutive deliveries at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The most recent hat-trick was taken by Pakistan's pace bowler Naseem Shah against Bangladesh in February 2020.
A player has taken two hat-tricks in the same Test match only once. Playing for Australia against South Africa in the first match of the 1912 Triangular Tournament at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, leg spinner Jimmy Matthews took a hat-trick in South Africa's first and second innings, both taken on 28 May 1912. He completed both hat-tricks by dismissing South Africa's Tommy Ward. Only three other cricketers have taken more than one Test hat-trick: Australian off spinner Hugh Trumble, Pakistani fast bowler Wasim Akram and English fast bowler Stuart Broad. Three players have taken a hat-trick on their Test debut: English medium pace bowler Maurice Allom in 1930, New Zealand off-spinner Peter Petherick in 1976, and Australian pace bowler Damien Fleming in 1994. Alok Kapali took the fewest total Test wickets of any player who recorded a hat-trick, taking only six wickets in his entire Test career. Australian Peter Siddle is the only bowler to take a hat-trick on his birthday, and Bangladeshi off spinner Sohag Gazi is the only player to score a century and take a hat-trick in the same Test match.
Indian pacer Irfan Pathan is the first bowler to take a hat-trick in the first over of a Test match, against Pakistan in 2006.
Australian Merv Hughes is the only bowler to take a hat-trick where the wickets fell over three overs. He took a wicket with the final ball of an over. With the first ball of his next over he took the final wicket of the West Indies innings. He then removed the opener Gordon Greenidge with the first ball of the West Indies second innings. Even more unusually, Hughes's two first-innings wickets were not consecutive, since Tim May had bowled an over himself in between Hughes's two deliveries, and took the wicket of Gus Logie.
Two other hat-tricks have taken place over two innings rather than one, both taken by West Indians against Australia—Courtney Walsh and Jermaine Lawson. Walsh's was unusual since, like Hughes's, other wickets fell between the beginning and end of the hat-trick. After dismissing Dodemaide to finish off Australia's first innings, Walsh did not open the bowling in the Australian second innings, and in fact did not bowl until Australia had already lost two wickets and were 65 for 2: then with his first two deliveries he dismissed Wood and Veletta. Lawson, meanwhile, removed tail-enders Lee and MacGill in successive deliveries to end Australia's first innings, then took the wicket of Langer with the first delivery of Australia's second innings.
In the five-match series between a Rest of the World XI and England in 1970, a hat-trick was taken by South African Eddie Barlow in the fourth match, at Headingley. These matches were considered to be Tests at the time, but that status was later removed.
Test hat-tricks
| Symbol | Meaning |
| Bowler | The name of the bowler |
| For | The team for which the bowler was playing |
| Against | The team against which the bowler was playing |
| Inn. | The innings in which the hat-trick was achieved |
| Test | The number of the Test within the overall series between the two teams |
| Dismissals | The three players dismissed by the bowler |
| Venue | The venue where the hat-trick was achieved |
| Date | The date on which the hat-trick was achieved |
| Ref. | Reference |
St. George's Park, 
By team
England and Australia combined have taken over half of all Test match hat-tricks to date, 25 of 44.| Team | Hat-tricks | No. of Players |
| 14 | 13 | |
| 11 | 9 | |
| 5 | 4 | |
| 4 | 4 | |
| 3 | 3 | |
| 2 | 2 | |
| 2 | 2 | |
| 2 | 2 | |
| 1 | 1 | |
| 1 | 1 |
By grounds
| Ground | Hat-tricks |
 Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne | 5 |
 Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore | 3 |
 Headlingley, Leeds | 3 |
| Old Trafford, Manchester | 3 |
| Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi | 2 |
 Bangabandhu Stadium, Dhaka | 2 |
| The Gabba, Brisbane | 2 |
 Galle International Stadium, Galle | 2 |
 Kensington Oval, Bridgetown | 2 |
 Harare Sports Club, Harare | 2 |
| Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney | 2 |
| WACA Ground, Perth | 2 |