Former West Indies fast bowler Sir Wesley Hall became the first West Indian bowler to take a hat trick in tests performing the feat on the 1959 tour of Pakistan and not the 1958 tour of India as was reported on Thursday.
In fact, Hall achieved the coveted feat in his eighth test match (after playing five tests in India) which was in essence the third test of the 1958/59 tour of India and Pakistan.
He first dismissed Mushtaq Mohammad who was then 15-years-old and playing in his debut test before adding the wickets of Nasim ul Ghani and Fazal Mahmood.
Hall, a former West Indies Cricket Board president also served as a Senator in Barbados. He was named in the Queen’s birthday honours list in June this year and was presented with the insignia of Knighthood last Tuesday at a ceremony in his native Barbados.
