Overview

• Bowling for North Zone, Nabi removed Virat Singh, Manishi and Mukhtar Hussain off the last three balls of the 53rd over, then dismissed Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal with the next delivery to complete four in four.
• He finished with 5/28, adding Mohammed Shami to his list, as East Zone were dismissed for 230 in response to North Zone’s 405 at the BCCI Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru.
• North Zone ended Day 2 with a 175-run first-innings lead, having earlier been lifted by Nabi’s 44 off 33 balls and Kanhaiya Wadhawan’s 76.
• The hat-trick places Nabi alongside Kapil Dev and Sairaj Bahutule as the only bowlers with Duleep Trophy hat-tricks, though he is the first to achieve four in four in the event.
• He also joined a short list of Indians with four wickets in four balls in first-class cricket, alongside S. S. Saini, Mohammad Mudhasir and Kulwant Khejroliya, as observers highlighted his case for higher honours.