AUSTRALIA’s Mitchell Starc has made history by taking a second hat-trick in the same Sheffield Shield game.
The paceman took the last three wickets of each innings, finishing with seven in total, as his New South Wales side beat Western Australia by 171 runs.

(Scores: New South Wales 270 (Smith 76, Richardson 4-47) and 6 for 300 dec (Smith 127, Patterson 66) beat Western Australia 176 (Bancroft 76*, Starc 4-56) and 223 (S Marsh 91, Starc 3-41) by 171 runs.

The 27-year-old becomes the first bowler to complete the feat in the same Shield match and is only the eighth player to do it in a first-class game.
He is continuing his comeback from injury before the Ashes this winter.

Starc missed Australia’s tour of Bangladesh in August with a foot problem.
In his only other four-day game since returning, Starc took 10 wickets in the match, including 8-73 in the second innings, as NSW hammered South Australia.
The first Ashes Test begins in Brisbane on 23 November.

TWO HAT-TRICKS IN ONE FIRST-CLASS MATCH
Alfred Shaw – Nottinghamshire v Gloucestershire, at Nottingham in 1884
Albert Trott – Middlesex v Somerset, at Lord’s in 1907
Jimmy Matthews – Australia v South Africa, at Old Trafford in 1912
Charlie Parker – Gloucestershire v Middlesex, at Bristol in 1924
Roland Jenkins – Worcestershire v Surrey, at Worcester in 1949
Joginder Rao – Services v North Punjab, at Amritsar in 1963
Amin Lakhani – Combined XI v Indians, at Multan in 1979
Mitchell Starc – NSW v Western Australia, at Hurstville in 2017