Trent Boult has become the first player to take a one-day international hat-trick at the home of cricket after cleaning up Australia late at Lord's.
Boult finished with figures of 4-51 against the Aussies as they hit 9-243, claiming the wickets of Usman Khawaja, Mitchell Starc and Jason Behrendorff in succession.
In doing so he also became the first New Zealander ever to take an international hat-trick at Lord's in any format of the game.
He had his first when he took Khawaja's left stump, with the left-hander attempting to flick him off his pads after resurrecting Australia's innings with a patient 88.
Boult's next wicket was the pick of the bunch, giving Starc a taste of his own medicine with a reverse-swinging yorker that the left-hander couldn't get down on.
The 29-year-old then completed the hat-trick with another yorker, trapping Jason Behrendorff plum in front, with the Australian given out both on field and following areview.
Boult's hat-trick marked his second in one-day cricket after he took one last November in Abu Dhabi.
It was New Zealand's fourth hat-trick and the country's first in a World Cup.
AAP.
