Sri Lanka left-armer Dilshan Madushanka bowled his side to a tight victory over Zimbabwe with a final over hat-trick.
Dilshan Madushanka bowls Sri Lanka to victory with final over hat-trick
In the first of two ODIs at the Harare Sports Club, the hosts elected to field first. Sri Lanka were dealt an early blow, with the departure of Nishan Madushka in the 5th over, for a 13-ball duck. Pathum Nissanka (70) anchored the innings, before a 137-run sixth-wicket stand between Janith Liyanage (70*) and Kamindu Mendis (57) lifted them to 298-6.
Zimbabwe lost two wickets in the first over of their chase, as Asitha Fernando got rid of Brian Bennett first ball, and the returning Brendan Taylor for a three-ball duck. Thereafter, Ben Curran and skipper Sean Williams repaired the damage with a 118-run stand. After Williams' dismissal, they slid to 161-5, bringing Tony Munyonga to the wicket alongside Sikandar Raza.
They needed 138 off exactly 20 overs at that point, and the pair brought the equation down to 10 runs needed off the final over, giving them the chance to become only the second team in men's ODI history to successfully complete a run-chase after being reduced to 0-2.
Raza stepped across his stumps to scoop the first ball from left-armer Dilshan Madushanka, but missed and the quick took out his middle stump instead. Next ball, new batter Brad Evans tried the same. He connected, but not well enough as the ball lobbed up to short fine leg for a simple catch. With Zimbabwe now needing 10 off four, new batter Richard Ngarava attempted a slog, and saw his stumps pegged back.
A single off the next ball brought the set Munyonga on strike, but Madushanka squeezed in a yorker to deny him anything, and reduce the requirement to nine off one ball. Munyonga got a single, and Zimbabwe fell short by seven runs.
Madushanka is the eighth Sri Lankan man to take an ODI hat-trick, after Chaminda Vaas (twice), Lasith Malinga (thrice), Farvez Maharoof, Thisara Perera, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shehan Madushanka and Maheesh Theekshana.
Men's ODI hat-tricks, full list
| Player | Match | Venue | Date |
| Jalal-ud-Din | Pakistan v Australia | Hyderabad (P) | September 20, 1982 |
| Bruce Reid | Australia v New Zealand | Sydney | January 29, 1986 |
| Chetan Sharma | India v New Zealand | Nagpur | October 31, 1987 |
| Wasim Akram | Pakistan v West Indies | Sharjah | October 14, 1989 |
| Wasim Akram | Pakistan v Australia | Sharjah | May 4, 1990 |
| Kapil Dev | India v Sri Lanka | Calcutta | January 4, 1991 |
| Aaqib Javed | Pakistan v India | Sharjah | October 25, 1991 |
| DK Morrison | New Zealand v India | Napier | March 25, 1994 |
| Waqar Younis | Pakistan v New Zealand | East London | December 19, 1994 |
| Saqlain Mushtaq | Pakistan v Zimbabwe | Peshawar | November 3, 1996 |
| Eddo Brandes | Zimbabwe v England | Harare | January 3, 1997 |
| Anthony Stuart | Australia v Pakistan | Melbourne | January 16, 1997 |
| Saqlain Mushtaq | Pakistan v Zimbabwe | The Oval | June 11, 1999 |
| Chaminda Vaas | Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe | Colombo (SSC) | December 8, 2001 |
| Mohammad Sami | Pakistan v West Indies | Sharjah | February 15, 2002 |
| Chaminda Vaas | Sri Lanka v Bangladesh | Pietermaritzburg | February 14, 2003 |
| Brett Lee | Australia v Kenya | Durban | March 15, 2003 |
| James Anderson | England v Pakistan | The Oval | June 20, 2003 |
| Steve Harmison | England v India | Nottingham | September 1, 2004 |
| Charl Langeveldt | South Africa v West Indies | Barbados | May 11, 2005 |
| Shahadat Hossain | Bangladesh v Zimbabwe | Harare | August 2, 2006 |
| Jerome Taylor | West Indies v Australia | Mumbai (BS) | October 18, 2006 |
| Shane Bond | New Zealand v Australia | Hobart | January 14, 2007 |
| Lasith Malinga | Sri Lanka v South Africa | Guyana | March 28, 2007 |
| Andrew Flintoff | England v West Indies | St Lucia | April 3, 2009 |
| Farveez Maharoof | Sri Lanka v India | Dambulla | June 22, 2010 |
| Abdur Razzak | Bangladesh v Zimbabwe | Dhaka | December 3, 2010 |
| Kemar Roach | West Indies v Netherlands | Delhi | February 28, 2011 |
| Lasith Malinga | Sri Lanka v Kenya | Colombo (RPS) | March 1, 2011 |
| Lasith Malinga | Sri Lanka v Australia | Colombo (RPS) | August 22, 2011 |
| Dan Christian | Australia v Sri Lanka | Melbourne | March 2, 2012 |
| Thisara Perera | Sri Lanka v Pakistan | Colombo (RPS) | June 16, 2012 |
| Clint McKay | Australia v England | Cardiff | September 14, 2013 |
| Rubel Hossain | Bangladesh v New Zealand | Dhaka | October 29, 2013 |
| Prosper Utseya | Zimbabwe v South Africa | Harare | August 29, 2014 |
| Taijul Islam | Bangladesh v Zimbabwe | Dhaka | December 1, 2014 |
| Steven Finn | England v Australia | Melbourne | February 14, 2015 |
| JP Duminy | South Africa v Sri Lanka | Sydney | March 18, 2015 |
| Kagiso Rabada | South Africa v Bangladesh | Mirpur | July 10, 2015 |
| James Faulkner | Australia v Sri Lanka | Colombo (RPS) | August 24, 2016 |
| Taskin Ahmed | Bangladesh v Sri Lanka | Dambulla | March 28, 2017 |
| Wanindu Hasaranga | Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe | Galle | July 2, 2017 |
| Kuldeep Yadav | India v Australia | Kolkata | September 21, 2017 |
| Shehan Madushanka | Sri Lanka v Bangladesh | Dhaka | January 27, 2018 |
| Imran Tahir | South Africa v Zimbabwe | Bloemfontein | October 3, 2018 |
| Trent Boult | New Zealand v Pakistan | Abu Dhabi | November 7, 2018 |
| Mohammed Shami | India v Afghanistan | Southampton | June 22, 2019 |
| Trent Boult | New Zealand v Australia | Lord's | June 29, 2019 |
| Kuldeep Yadav | India v West Indies | Visakhapatnam | December 18, 2019 |
| Wessly Madhevere | Zimbabwe v Netherlands | Harare | March 23, 2023 |
| Maheesh Theekshana | Sri Lanka v New Zealand | Hamilton | January 8, 2025 |
| Dilshan Madushanka | Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe | Harare | August 29, 2025 |
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