November 19, 2020: Fall Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/19/2020
This is an attractive cricket trophy awarded for achieving one of the sports most difficult feats, a “Hat Trick.” Measuring 5.5 inches tall the trophy is comprised of a cricket ball that freely rests on an attractive black lacquer base with a silver label, “P.K.O. Crosthwaite, Hat Trick v Chinthurst, July 14th 1962.” Cricket is a bat and ball game played between two teams on a field with a wicket at each end widely believed to have originated during medieval times. A Hat Trick is an achievement where a bowler takes three wickets in consecutive deliveries. In more than two-thousand Test matches, in which national representative teams compete in matches of up to five days duration, a Hat-Trick has only been achieved 43 times; the earliest being in 1879. For collectors familiar with the sport and even those not so familiar; this is certainly an interesting and provocative sporting trophy.
Vintage Cricket “Hat Trick” Sports Award Trophy
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