Rashid Khan led Gujarat Titans on Sunday without regular captain Hardik Pandya. Under his captaincy, Gujarat’s batsmen put up a massive collection of 204 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders. Rashid Khan knocked Kolkata out of the match as they chased down 154 runs in 15.5 overs. In the 17th over, Andre Russell (1), Sunil Narine (0), and Shardul Thakur (0) scored a hat-trick. This is the first hat trick by a bowler in the history of the Gujarat Titans. Just what? It was also the first hat trick in the 2023 IPL. And Rashid Khan’s first IPL hat trick.

This is his fourth hat trick in his T20 career, which is the highest as a bowler. Earlier, he scored hat-tricks in the Caribbean Premier League, Big Bash, and T20 Internationals. He also completed the hat-trick quota in the IPL on Sunday. Andre Tye, Mohammad Shami, Amit Mishra, Andre Russell, and Imran Tahir have three hat-tricks each in T20 cricket. And 24-year-old Rashid Khan scored a hat-trick as the fourth bowler against Kolkata Knight Riders. Earlier Makhaya Ntini, Pravin Tambe, and Yuzvendra Chahal scored hat-tricks against KKR. Rashid Khan was wicketless with 35 runs in the first three overs on Sunday. He finished the spell with 3 wickets with 37 runs in 4 overs with a hat-trick in the last over. But Rashid Khan’s history-making hat trick was overshadowed by Rinku Singh’s storm in the last over.