The 36-year-old also became only the sixth player in the history of men's T20I cricket to have picked up multiple hat-tricks, with the Argentina veteran having previously bagged one against Panama
Joining an elite global club of six bowlers, Argentina's Hernan Fennell took four wickets in four back-to-back balls, AKA a 'double hat-trick' during his team's ICC Men's T20 World Cup Sub Regional Americas Qualifier encounter against the Cayman Islands in Buenos Aires on Sunday (December 15, 2024). (More Cricket News)
Fennell achieved the feat during the last over of the Cayman Islands innings, joining Afghanistan all-rounder Rashid Khan, Sri Lanka yorker specialist Lasith Malinga, Ireland's Curtis Campher, West Indies veteran Jason Holder and Waseem Yaqoob of Lesotho as bowlers to have completed a T20I double hat-trick.
The 36-year-old also became only the sixth player in the history of men's T20I cricket to have picked up more than one hat-trick, with the Argentina veteran having previously bagged one against Panama in Antigua in 2021, as part of the ICC T20 World Cup Americas Region Qualifiers.
Australia Test captain Pat Cummins, Waseem Abbas of Malta, Serbia's Mark Pavlovic, New Zealand's Tim Southee, Malinga and now Fennell are the only players to have picked up multiple men's T20I hat-tricks.
Fennell had Troy Taylor caught with the third ball of his fourth over and then trapped Alistair Ifill in front with the very next delivery to reduce Cayman Islands 116/8 in their final over.
The pacer then got rid of Ronald Ebanks and Alessandro Morris with the final two balls of the innings to make it four wickets in four straight deliveries en route stunning figures of 5/14.
However, Fennell's heroics could not take Argentina to victory, with the South American side all out for just 94 in reply to Cayman Islands' score of 116.