On This Day: Irfan Pathan shocked Pakistan with a memorable hat-trick in 2006

Former India left-arm pacer Irfan Pathan, who retired from worldwide cricket in January 2020, was considered probably the most distinguished skills on this planet at one level. In his prime, Pathan has had plenty of memorable moments with each ball and bat in worldwide cricket.
On January 29 in 2006, Irfan Pathan took a hat-trick towards Pakistan in Karachi Test. Let’s relive the historic second 15 years after the feat that has gone on to changing into one thing of a defining second in his profession.
Highlights:
It was the third and ultimate Test of the sequence between India and Pakistan in Karachi. The earlier two matches had been drawn. Pakistan had been batting first and Pathan was given the brand new ball by captain Sourav Ganguly. Salman Butt was the person on strike. The first three had been dot balls after which got here the fourth. It swung away from the left-hander and was nicked to Rahul Dravid at first slip. Younis Khan then got here on and was handled to a vicious inswinger. He performed the fallacious line, the ball hit the pads and he was plumb.
Ganguly then set an aggressive area for Mohammad Yousuf however it wasn’t required. Another inswinger had Yousuf bamboozled and the ball crashed on to the stumps. Irfan Pathan grew to become solely the second Indian bowler since Harbhajan Singh to get a Test hat-trick.
Despite that Pakistan fought again by way of Kamran Akmal in that innings and India had been unable to surpass that whole. Pakistan went on to attain a mammoth 599/7 attributable to a century from Faisal Iqbal and helpful knocks from Mohammad Yousuf and Abdul Razzaq. Razzaq and Mohammad Asif then ripped by way of the Indian batting order. India, regardless of the hat-trick and Yuvraj Singh’s century within the second innings, misplaced that match and thus the sequence.