Fahima Khatun becomes first Bangladeshi Woman to take T20I hat-trick
Fahima Khatun becomes first Bangladeshi Woman to take a T20 hat-trick
Playing against UAE Women in the 2018 ICC Women’s World T20 Qualifiers, Fahima Khatun became the first Bangladeshi woman (and eighth in the world) to take hat-trick in T20 Internationals. Fahima had Udeni Dona caught by Rumana Ahmed at deep square-leg; Esha Rohit Oza, by Nahida Akter at long-on; and trapped Kavisha Egodage leg-before — with the last three balls of the 13th over. Fahima finished with 4-0-8-4. Below is the list of hat-tricks in Women’s T20Is:
| Bowler | Team | Against | Venue | Date | Wickets | ||
| Asmavia Iqbal | Pakistan | England | Loughborough | 5.9.12. | Sarah Taylor | LBW | |
| Arran Brindle | bowled | ||||||
| Danielle Wyatt | caught | substitute | |||||
| Ekta Bisht | India | Sri Lanka | Colombo | 3.10.12. | Dilani Manodara | caught | Niranjana Nagarajan |
| Yasoda Mendis | caught | and bowled | |||||
| Eshani Lokusuriyage | caught | Jhulan Goswami | |||||
| Marizanne Kapp | South Africa | Bangladesh | Potchefstroom | 14.9.13. | Rumana Ahmed | caught | Trisha Chetty |
| Ritu Moni | bowled | ||||||
| Fahima Khatun | bowled | ||||||
| Natalie Sciver | England | New Zealand | Kensington Oval | 22.10.13. | Maddy Green | caught | Holly Calvin |
| Erin Bermingham | bowled | ||||||
| Frances Mackay | LBW | ||||||
| Sana Mir | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | Sharjah | 16.1.15. | Ama Kanchana | bowled | |
| Maduri Samuddika | LBW | ||||||
| Inoka Ranaweera | bowled | ||||||
| Anna Peterson | New Zealand | Australia | Geelong | 19.2.17. | Jess Jonassen | caught | Katie Perkins |
| Alyssa Healy | caught | Maddy Green | |||||
| Megan Schutt | caught | Suzie Bates | |||||
| Megan Schutt | Australia | India | Brabourne | 26.3.18. | Smriti Mandhana | bowled | |
| Mithali Raj | bowled | ||||||
| Deepti Sharma | caught | Amanda-Jade Wellington | |||||
| Fahima Khatun | Bangladesh | UAE | Utrecht | 10.7.18. | Udeni Dona | caught | Rumana Ahmed |
| Esha Rohit Oza | caught | Nahida Akter | |||||
| Kavisha Egodage | LBW | ||||||
ICC uploaded a video of Fahima’s hat-trick on their Twitter handle.
UAE were 33 for 2 in 12.3 overs (even that was not a competitive score) when Fahima struck. UAE ended up losing their last 8 wickets for 6 runs in 23 balls against Fahima (4-1-8-4), Nahida Akter (2.2-0-2-2) and Rumana Ahmed (2-1-4-2). Bangladesh chased down the target of 40 in 41 balls after losing just two wickets.
Fahima was also the part of a hat-trick, as was Rumana, when Marizanne Kapp took three in three in 2013-14, as is evident in the table above. Rumana is the only Bangladeshi to take an ODI hat-trick (against Ireland in 2016-17).