Andy Blignaut became the 30th bowler in Test cricket and first from Zimbabwe to complete a Test hat-trick when he had Hannan Sarkar, Mohammad Ashraful and Mushfiqur Rahman dismissed off third, fourth and fifth ball of his third over in Bangladesh's second innings in the Harare Test.

Sarkar was the first to go; trapped leg before wicket, while Ashraful was taken at gully by substitute fielder Travis Friend. Mushfiqur Rahman could only manage a thin-edge to wicketkeeper Tatenda Taibu and the history was made.

There have been a total of 33 hat-tricks in the Test cricket (including Blignaut's). Australia's Fred Spofforth was the first bowler to take three wickets off three consecutive balls in a Test match. Australia's Hugh Trumble and Jimmy Matthews; and Pakistan's Wasim Akram have performed this feat twice. Matthews, in fact, did the hat-trick in each innings. England's Maurice Allom, New Zealand's Peter Petherick and Australia's Damien Fleming did the hat-trick on their debut, whereas the second Trumble and the Griffin hat-tricks were in their final Tests.

The hat-tricks of West Indian Courtney Walsh and Jermaine Lawson; and Australia's Merve Hughes were spanned over two innings. Sri Lankan fast bowler Nuwan Zoysa's hat-trick was from the first three balls he delivered in the Test – a feat unparalleled in first-class cricket. Pakistan's Wasim Akram was the first captain to take a hat trick, a feat he emulated in the next Test match.

Bowler	For	Vs	Inns	Test	Venue	Series	Mode of dismissals
FR Spofforth	Aus	Eng	1st	1st	Melbourne	1878-79	2 bowled,1 ct
W Bates	Eng	Aus	1st	2nd	Melbourne	1882-83	1 bowled,1 c&b,1 ct
J Briggs	Eng	Aus	2nd	2nd	Sydney	1891-92	1 bowled,1 ct,1 LBW
GA Lohmann	Eng	SA	2nd	1st	Port Elizabeth	1895-96	2 bowled,1 ct
JT Hearne	Eng	Aus	2nd	3rd	Leeds	1899	1 bowled,2 ct
H Trumble	Aus	Eng	2nd	2nd	Melbourne	1901-02	1 c&b,2 ct
H Trumble	Aus	Eng	2nd	5th	Melbourne	1903-04	1 c&b,1 ct,1 LBW
TJ Matthews	Aus	SA	1st	1st	Manchester	1912	1 bowled,2 LBW
TJ Matthews	Aus	SA	2nd	1st	Manchester	1912	1 bowled,2 c&b
MJC Allom	Eng	NZ	1st	1st	Christchurch	1929-30	1 bowled,1 ct,1 LBW
TWJ Goddard	Eng	SA	1st	1st	Johannesburg	1938-39	1 bowled,1 c&b,1 st
PJ Loader	Eng	WI	1st	4th	Leeds	1957	2 bowled,1 ct
LF Kline	Aus	SA	2nd	2nd	Cape Town	1957-58	2 ct,1 LBW
WW Hall	WI	Pak	1st	3rd	Lahore	1958-59	1 bowled,1 ct,1 LBW
GM Griffin	SA	Eng	1st	2nd	Lord's	1960	2 bowled,1 ct
LR Gibbs	WI	Aus	1st	4th	Adelaide	1960-61	1 bowled,1 ct,1 LBW
PJ Petherick	NZ	Pak	1st	1st	Lahore	1976-77	1 c&b, 2 ct
CA Walsh	WI	Aus	1&2	1st	Brisbane	1988-89	2 ct,1 LBW
MG Hughes	Aus	WI	1&2	2nd	Perth	1988-89	2 ct,1 LBW
DW Fleming	Aus	Pak	2nd	2nd	Rawalpindi	1994-95	2 ct,1 LBW
SK Warne	Aus	Eng	2nd	2nd	Melbourne	1994-95	2 ct,1 LBW
DG Cork	Eng	WI	2nd	4th	Manchester	1995	1 bowled,2 LBW
D Gough	Eng	Aus	1st	5th	Sydney	1998-99	1 ct, 2 bowled
Wasim Akram	Pak	SL	1st	1st	Lahore	1998-99	1 ct, 2 bowled
Wasim Akram	Pak	SL	2nd	1st	Dhaka	1998-99	2 ct,1 bowled
DNT Zoysa	SL	Zim	1st	2nd	Harare	1999-00	2 LBW, 1 ct
Abdur Razzaq	Pak	SL	1st	2nd	Galle	1999-00	1 ct, 2 LBW
GD McGrath	Aus	WI	1st	2nd	Perth	2000-01	3 ct
Harbhajan Singh	Ind	Aus	1st	2nd	Calcutta	2000-01	2 LBW, 1 ct
Mohammad Sami	Pak	SL	1st	1st	Lahore	2001-02	2 LBW, 1 bowled
JJC Lawson	WI	Aus	1&2	3rd	Bridgetown	2002-03	2 bowled, 1 LBW
Alok Kapali	Ban	Pak	1st	2nd	Peshawar	2003	1 ct, 2 LBW
AM Blignaut	Zim	Ban	2nd	1st	Harare	2003-04	1 LBW, 2 ct