Mitchell Starc continued his Ashes preparation by becoming the first bowler on Australian soil to take two hat-tricks in the same match.
The menacing left-arm quick rattled through Western Australia's lower order for a second time on Tuesday, capping a 171-run Sheffield Shield victory for New South Wales in Sydney.
Australia's premier paceman had Jason Behrendorff caught behind and splayed David Moody's stumps with successive deliveries before Jonathan Wells nicked to first slip off the first ball of Starc's next over.
Starc also took the final three wickets in WA's first innings from as many deliveries as he finished with match figures of seven for 97, looking in ominous form ahead of the first Test against England at the Gabba on November 23.
Starc becomes only the eighth bowler in history to record two hat-tricks in the same match and the last since Amin Lakhani, a slow left armer playing for a Universities and Young Pakistan team who took three scalps in three balls in both innings of a touring Indians batting line-up in Multan in October 1978.
Source: PA
