Today Mitchell Starc created history and served an ominous Ashes warning by taking two hat tricks in the same match in the Sheffield Shield match against Western Australia at Hurstville Oval.

By doing this, Starc became the first person since 1978/79 to take two hat tricks in the same first-class match. He is also the first person to do this in an Australian first-class match.

He is also the third Australian to do this, after Albert Trott for Middlesex in 1907 and Jimmy Matthews in a Test Match in England in 1912.

The players who have achieved this feat are:

Alfred Shaw for Nottinghamshire against Gloucestershire at Nottingham in 1884.

Albert Trott for Middlesex against Somerset at Lord’s in 1907. Trott took four wickets in four balls in this match.

Jimmy Matthews for Australia against South Africa at Manchester in 1912.

Charlie Parker for Gloucestershire against Middlesex at Bristol in 1924.

Roly Jenkins for Worcestershire against Surrey at Worcester in 1949.

JS Rao for Services against Northern Punjab at Amritsar in 1963/64. Rao took two separate hat tricks in this match.

Amin Lakhani for Combined XI against Indians at Multan in 1978/79.

Mitchell Starc for New South Wales against Western Australia at Hurstville in 2017/18.

Former ACT and Weston Creek Molonglo Cricket Club all rounder Tom Rogers will make his first-class debut for Tasmania in the second round of the Sheffield Shield season starting tomorrow. Rogers comes in for Andrew Fekete who has withdrawn from the squad for the match with a foot injury and Rogers has been diverted from making his Futures League debut for Tasmania to making his first-class debut against Queensland at Bellerive Oval.

Tom Rogers will become the 31st player to make his first-class debut after playing for the ACT. The initial first-class player from the ACT to play first-class cricket was Fred Johnston who played for New South Wales while a teacher in Canberra. The last player to play first-class cricket from the ACT was Aaron Ayre who made his debut for Victoria in 2015/16.

In addition to the 31 players to play first-class cricket, Greg Rowell (New South Wales, Tasmania & Queensland), Jason Floros (Queenland), Daniel King (Oxford University) & Ashley Ross (South Australia) have played first-class cricket but only represented the ACT at Youth Representative level.

He will also be the fifth player from the Weston Creek Molonglo club to play first-class cricket. The others being Michael Bevan, Huntley Armstrong, Jack Smith, and John Rogers who is Tom’s brother. They will also become the first set of brothers to play first-class cricket after playing for the ACT.

The list of first-class cricketers from the ACT are below: