Top 3 Unique records held by Irfan Pathan in Cricket

3. Irfan Pathan became the first Indian to take a Test hat-trick in the first over of the match 

Irfan Pathan became the second Indian bowler to take a Test hat-trick after Harbhajan Singh when he achieved the feat against Pakistan in Karachi in 2006. However, he became the first bowler to take a hat-trick in the first over of a Test match. 

Pakistan was put into bat by Rahul Dravid and Irfan Pathan had the new ball. The first three balls were left well by Salman Butt, who opened the innings for Pakistan. On the third ball, he delivered an out-swinging ball and edged to Rahul Dravid in the first slip.

The next ball saw Pakistan captain Younis Khan getting out plumb LBW. And Pathan achieved the record of a Test hat-trick when he clean bowled Mohammad Yousuf with an amazing in-swinger. The ball swung from off-stump in the air and moved into Yousuf, who failed to play the swing and lost his middle stump.