
The king of Yorkers completed hattricks in both ODIs and T20Is on April 6, 2017, at Premadasa Stadium in Colombo against Bangladesh. He dismissed Rahim, Mortaza and Mehedi Hasan in Sri Lanka”s shock defeat against Bangladesh by 45 runs. However, Malinga bagged man of the series award. “Slinga” as he is called has 3 ODI hattricks to go with that. His first hattrick came against South Africa at Guyana on March 28, 2007. Then in 2011, he picked up 2 hattricks, one against Kenya in 2011 WC and one against Australia in August 2011.
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