Tom Worth’s earlier career-best with the bat was 71 in opposition to Glamorgan in Cardiff in 2021LV= County Championship Division Two, New Highway (day one)Gloucestershire 231: T Worth 109; Leach 4-49Worcestershire 118-7: Waite 37; T Worth 4-38, Singh Dale 3-23Worcestershire (3 pts) path Gloucestershire (2 pts) by 113 runs with 3 wickets remainingMatch scorecard
Gloucestershire’s Tom Worth turned the fifteenth participant in first-class cricket historical past to make 100 and take a hat-trick as his aspect took on Worcestershire at New Highway.
After coming in at quantity 9 at 45-7, the 23-year-old smashed 4 sixes in his maiden century – 109 off 98 balls – earlier than being lucklessly run out.
Having helped his aspect attain 231, Worth then starred once more with the ball because the Pears slumped to 118-7 by the shut.
He took the wickets of Azhar Ali, Jack Haynes and residential skipper Brett D’Oliveira in successive deliveries, all caught behind by wicketkeeper James Bracey.
The ton/hat-trick double is the seventeenth time it has been carried out in first-class cricket, twice by the identical man, together with Worth’s Gloucestershire predecessor, the nice Mike Procter.
However, though Joe Denly as soon as did it for Kent in a T20 recreation, cricket statisticians have been leafing although the report books, already assured that he’s the primary participant to do each on the identical day.
“It is a bit surreal,” Worth advised BBC Sport. “It will not sink in for some time. I am going to get up in 5 minutes and it’ll all really feel like a dream.
Tom Worth took the primary hat-trick of his profession simply months in the past in opposition to Kent at Canterbury
“I do not actually know what to say. It has been a tremendous day. I am fairly drained however fairly delighted.”
Having misplaced Jake Libby, lbw to Ajeet Singh Dale within the earlier over, Worth’s second dramatic intervention of the day meant that 4 wickets had gone down in eight balls because the Pears slumped from 58-0 to 59-4.
Worth then claimed a fourth wicket when he additionally had Ed Pollock caught behind by Bracey, this one an excellent one-hand diving catch to his…
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