Mike, is this you asking Malcolm Ashton a question on the BBC website?
In the first-class game has an outfielder completed a hat-trick of catches? I ask as I have in club cricket but have never come across it anywhere else.
Mike Brimble, England
There are no records of an outfielder completing this feat at first-class or Test level, but it has been done twice by wicketkeepers. GO Dawkes of Derbyshire v Worcestershire at Kidderminster in 1958, three catches in succession from HL Jackson, and RC Russell for Gloucestershire v Surrey at The Oval in 1986 from successive balls from CA Walsh and DV Lawrence (2).