Harshal Patel bagged a hat-trick and helped Royal Challengers Bangalore beat holders Mumbai Indians by 54 runs in the Indian Premier league on Sunday.

Patel flattened Mumbai’s batting with his medium-pace bowling as he sent back Hardik Pandya (3), Kieron Pollard (7) and Rahul Chahar (0) to get his first IPL hat-trick and return with figures of 4/17.

IPL 2021, RCB vs MI as it happened: Harshal Patel bags a hat-trick as Bangalore win by 54 runs

“I was thinking if the batters can’t pick my slower balls then the bowlers also will find it difficult to spot (referring to Rahul Chahar’s wicket that got him the hat-trick),” said Patel after the match. “I just bet on that. This was my sixth time being on a hat-trick and I finally got one, so pretty happy.”

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RCB skipper Virat Kohli added: “What Harshal did tonight was unbelievable.”

Patel became the 17th bowler to take a hat-trick in the IPL. Amit Mishra has claimed a record three hat-tricks in IPL history, Yuvraj Singh bagged two, while 15 other bowlers, including Patel, have taken one each.

Here’s a look at all the hat-tricks taken in IPL history:

Hat-tricks in IPL

Bowler  No of hat-tricks
Amit Mishra  3
Yuvraj Singh  2
15 other bowlers 1

List of Hat-tricks in the IPL

Player For Against Hat-trick wickets Final figures Venue Match date
Harshal Patel RCB MI HH Pandya, KA Pollard, RD Chahar 4/17 (3.1 overs) Dubai International Stadium 26 September 2021
Shreyas Gopal RR RCB V Kohli, AB de Villiers, MP Stoinis 3/12 (1 over) M. Chinnaswamy Stadium 30 April 2019
Sam Curran PBKS DC HV Patel, K Rabada, S Lamichhane 4/11 (2.2 overs) IS Bindra Stadium 01 April 2019
Jaydev Unadkat RPS SRH Bipul Sharma, Rashid Khan, B Kumar 5/30 (4 overs) Rajiv Gandhi Intl. Cricket Stadium 06 May 2017
Andrew Tye GL RPS Ankit Sharma, MK Tiwary, SN Thakur 5/17 (4 overs) Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium 14 April 2017
Samuel Badree RCB MI PA Patel, MJ McClenaghan, RG Sharma 4/9 (4 overs) M. Chinnaswamy Stadium 14 April 2017
Axar Patel PBKS GL KD Karthik, DJ Bravo, RA Jadeja 4/21 (4 overs) Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium 01 May 2016
Shane Watson RR SRH S Dhawan, M Henriques, KV Sharma 3/13 (2 overs) Narendra Modi Stadium 08 May 2014
Pravin Tambe RR KKR MK Pandey, YK Pathan, RN ten Doeschate 3/26 (4 overs) Narendra Modi Stadium 05 May 2014
Amit Mishra SRH PWI B Kumar, R Sharma, AB Dinda 4/19 (4 overs) Maharashtra Cricket Association's International Stadium 17 April 2013
Sunil Narine KKR PBKS DJ Hussey, Azhar Mahmood, Gurkeerat Singh 3/33 (4 overs) IS Bindra Stadium 16 April 2013
Ajit Chandila RR PWI JD Ryder, SC Ganguly, RV Uthappa 4/13 (4 overs) Sawai Mansingh Stadium 13 May 2012
Amit Mishra DEC PBKS R McLaren, Mandeep Singh, RJ Harris 4/9 (4 overs) HPCA Stadium 21 May 2011
Praveen Kumar RCB RR DR Martyn, S Narwal, P Dogra 3/18 (4 overs) M. Chinnaswamy Stadium 18 March 2010
Yuvraj Singh PBKS DEC HH Gibbs, A Symonds, Y Venugopal Rao 3/13 (4 overs) New Wanderers Stadium 17 May 2009
Rohit Sharma DEC MI AM Nayar, Harbhajan Singh, JP Duminy 4/6 (2 overs) Supersport Park 06 May 2009
Yuvraj Singh PBKS RCB RV Uthappa, JH Kallis, MV Boucher 3/22 (4 overs) Kingsmead 01 May 2009
Makhaya Ntini CSK KKR SC Ganguly, DB Das, DJ Hussey 4/21 (4 overs) Eden Gardens 18 May 2008
Amit Mishra DC DEC DB Ravi Teja, PP Ojha, RP Singh 5/17 (4 overs) Arun Jaitley Stadium 15 May 2008
Lakshmipathy Balaji CSL PBKS IK Pathan, PP Chawla, VRV Singh 5/24 (4 overs) Chidambaram 10 May 2008

With iplt20.com and ESPNCricinfo Statsguru inputs