Boult's World Cup hat-trick makes Kiwi history

New Zealand speedster Trent Boult has taken the first one-day international hat-trick at Lord's and his second in less than a year after delivering a brilliant trio of yorkers in the final over of Australia's innings in their World Cup clash on Saturday.

After removing Usman Khawaja for a crucial hand of 88 off 129 balls, Boult then snared the scalps of tailenders Mitchell Starc and Jason Behrendorff for golden ducks to seal the milestone.

While all three batters were chasing late runs, the left-armer could hardly have bowled three better deliveries to finish off an innings.

Khawaja stepped across his crease in a bid to work the ball to the leg-side but went too far as Boult clipped his leg stump.

Starc, who delivered one of the better yorkers in World Cup history in Australia's last game against England, got a taste of his own medicine when he had his middle-stump knocked back.

With the Lord's crowd buzzing, Boult ran in and fired in another stump-seeker that Behrendorff could do little about but get his back foot in the way. His review proved futile as Boult sealed the Black Caps' first hat-trick at a World Cup.

"Any fast bowler's dream is to get three in a row anywhere but to do it out at Lord's against Australia is a pretty cool feeling," said Boult.

"It was a pretty simple game-plan - just try to hit the bottom of the stumps and big 'Dorff' got his foot in the way of it... he told me it hurt his foot, so that was good.

"There was a bit of entertainment there for a second with a cheeky referral but it was nice to see three red (lights) come up."

He could have had a fourth victim on the final ball of the innings when Nathan Lyon attempted an audacious ramp, but both bowler and batter missed their targets, with the Aussies finishing on 9-243.

A hat-trick is among the hardest feats to achieve at any level of cricket, but Boult remarkably now has two in seven months, having dismissed Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam and Mohammad Hafeez in consecutive deliveries in an ODI against Pakistan in November.

India paceman Mohammad Shami took the first hat-trick of this World Cup against Afghanistan last week.

World Cup hat-tricks

1987: Chetan Sharma (Ind) v NZ, Nagpur

1999: Saqlain Mushtaq (Pak) v Zim, The Oval 

2003: Chaminda Vaas (SL) v Ban, Pietermaritzburg

2003: Brett Lee (Aus) v Ken, Durban

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2007: Lasith Malinga (SL) v SA, Georgetown

2011: Kemar Roach (WI) v Ned, Delhi

2011: Lasith Malinga (SL) v Ken, Colombo

2015: Steve Finn (Eng) v Aus, MCG

2015: JP Duminy (SA) v SL, SCG

2019: Mohammed Shami (Ind) v Afg, Southampton

2019: Trent Boult (NZ) v Aus, Lord's

2019 World Cup

Australia's squad: Aaron Finch (c), Jason Behrendorff, Alex Carey (wk), Nathan Coulter-Nile, Pat Cummins, Usman Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Kane Richardson, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, David Warner, Adam Zampa

June 1: Australia beat Afghanistan by seven wickets

June 6: Australia beat West Indies by 15 runs

June 9: Australia lost to India by 36 runs

June 12: Australia beat Pakistan by 41 runs

June 15: Australia beat Sri Lanka by 87 runs

June 20: Australia beat Bangladesh by 48 runs

June 25: Australia beat England by 64 runs

June 29: Australia beat New Zealand by 86 runs

July 6: Australia v South Africa, Old Trafford (D/N)

July 9: Semi-Final 1, Old Trafford

July 11: Semi-Final 2, Edgbaston

July 14: Final, Lord's

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