In a tournament like IPL, the game can drift away in very less time if a player delivers an extraordinary performance. This can particularly happen when a bowler takes a hat-trick during the innings. It then becomes very difficult for the opposition team to recover from the quick fall of the wickets. It is not very common to see hat-tricks in IPL and there have been some seasons in which not even a single hat-trick was taken by the bowler. On the other hand, in a few of the seasons, we have seen multiple hat-tricks taking place. In this article, we will be listing out all the hat-tricks that have happened in IPL history.

Lakshmipathy Balaji was the first bowler who took the hat-trick in the cash-rich league. He bowled a brilliant spell against the Punjab team in the inaugural season where he took 5 wickets for 24 runs in his 4 overs. Amit Mishra and Makhaya Ntini were the other two bowlers who picked up a hat-trick in the same season.

The second season of IPL was quite unique in terms of hat-tricks taken because this time non-regular bowlers achieved the landmark. Yuvraj Singh picked up 2 hat-tricks while playing for Punjab in 2009 while Rohit Sharma also took a hat-trick where he featured for the Hyderabad team. 

In the next three years, there were three bowlers who were successful in taking a hat-trick in each season. It was Praveen Kumar in 2010, Amit Mishra in 2011 and Ajit Chandila in 2012. Amit Mishra again took a hat-trick in 2013 along with Sunil Narine who bowled wonderfully for the Kolkata Knight Riders team. 

In the year 2014, both the players who took hat-trick were from Rajasthan Royals. These cricketers were Shane Watson and Pravin Tambe picking up a hat-trick against SRH and KKR respectively. Axar Patel played for the Punjab team in 2016 and bowled a brilliant spell of 4/21 including a hat-trick against Gujarat.

In IPL 2017, there were 3 hat-tricks that occurred with Jaydev Unadkat, Andrew Tye and Samuel Badree achieving the special landmark. Among them, Badree delivered the most economical spell picking up 4 wickets for only 9 runs in 4 overs. The last set of hat-tricks in the IPL happened in the 2019 season when Shreyas Gopal and Sam Curran had some great games with the ball.   

Hat-tricks list in IPL

Player	Bowling Figures	Against	Year
Lakshmipathy Balaji	5/24	KXIP	2008
Amit Mishra	5/17	DEC	2008
Makhaya Ntini	4/21	KKR	2008
Yuvraj Singh	3/22	RCB	2009
Rohit Sharma	4/6	MI	2009
Yuvraj Singh	3/13	DEC	2009
Praveen Kumar	3/18	RR	2010
Amit Mishra	4/9	KXIP	2011
Ajit Chandila	4/13	PWI	2012
Sunil Narine	3/33	KXIP	2013
Amit Mishra	4/19	PWI	2013
Pravin Tambe	3/26	KKR	2014
Shane Watson	3/13	SRH	2014
Axar Patel	4/21	GL	2016
Samuel Badree	4/9	MI	2017
Andrew Tye	5/17	RPS	2017
Jaydev Unadkat	5/30	SRH	2017
Sam Curran	4/11	DC	2019
Shreyas Gopal	3/12	RCB	2019