Stuart Broad to become the successive Hat-trick taker...

Stuart Broad finally said he could not believe that he had become the first England bowler to take two Test hat-tricks with three successive on Friday balls against SriLanka at Headingley .

The Hat-trick taker, who had formerly played the feat against India at Trent Bridge in 2011, struck with the final ball of his 12th over to have Kumar Sangakkara on 79 and well caught by Ian Bell in the culvert.

Broad next over bowl caught Dinesh Chadimal at first slip by England captain Alastair Cook for 45.Then came Shaminda Eranga which was also caught behind by wicketkeeper Matt Prior.

But because the hat-trick had been achieved across two overs neither Broad nor his England team-mates executed what he had achieved until the public address announcer informed the crowd.

"I had no idea!," Broad told Media. "I was listening to the guy that came on the tannoy there and I was thinking 'why is he mentioning the last ball of the over before?', and it clicked that that might be a hat-trick."
On the first day of the second Test on Friday after losing the toss Sri Lanka were ultimately dismissed for 257.
 Broad was  fourth seamer in test history to have twice Hat-trick after the Australian duo of Hugh Trumble (1901/02 and 1903/04) and Jimmy Matthews, who had that performance to take twice Hat-trick in the same match against South Africa in Manchester in 1912.

Pakistan great player Wasim Akram is also included in the list of this list and took his 1st successive Hat-trick against Sri Lanka (1998/99).