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🗓️ 9 July 2015
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | Fantastic start by the USA. |
0:02.6 | Lloyd with Morgan streaking. |
0:04.2 | She's chipping the goalkeeper! |
0:06.2 | Off the post and in! |
0:08.2 | Patrick Floyd! |
0:10.2 | The sound you're hearing is Carly Lloyd scoring her third goal in the women's |
0:16.4 | World Cup final on Sunday. And if you like sports you know that whenever you |
0:20.4 | score three goals in one game that's called a hat trick probably |
0:24.4 | know that even if you don't like sports but where does that word come from on the |
0:28.5 | line with this now is Andrew Hignall he's the Secretary of the Association of Cricket Statisticians. |
0:36.2 | He knows where the word comes from. |
0:38.0 | Yeah, the term HATTRIC has its evolution in the very English and Welsh game of cricket, which is a game |
0:48.0 | very similar to baseball, but the term hat trick has its evolution in the mid-19th century from Ebola who would take three |
0:58.4 | wickets, in other words, he would get three batsmen out with consecutive deliveries and when bowlers took a |
1:09.1 | wicket with three consecutive deliveries that they were presented with a very large top hat. |
1:16.2 | Now was there that you know of was there a first time that the fans thought to do this? The first record we've got is in 1858 when a man called |
1:29.2 | H.H. Stevenson was playing for the All England cricket team in a match at Hallam in Staveley. |
1:37.0 | But there are records, as I say, from that time and even photographs of players wearing the hat that they'd been |
1:47.0 | given and awarded for this outstanding feat. I should add though that there are records again that actually anyone taking three |
1:56.2 | wickets with successive balls actually won a gallon of beer so I'm not quite sure which people would have liked a nice top hat to wear or |
2:07.1 | whether they'd have liked a gallon of beer to share with their friends. |
2:10.3 | Well, were these quality hats? Were these like really nice top hats or were they just kind of like, you know, crappy free hats? |
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