A local cricket bowler achieved a rare cricketing feat over the weekend.

‘Howzat’ told the John Hughes Rumour File that a Murdoch University Melville bowler took a double hat trick in his first over, a hat trick in the second, and another hat trick in his third to finish.

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Caller Alby confirmed the rumour shortly after saying that the man in the rumour was Johnny Morany and is a ‘belter of a bowler’.

“It was a great set of bowling,” he said. 

“Every bloke that came off wasn’t smacking the bat or anything… they were saying that was an absolute pace of a ball!”

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The man himself, Johnny Moran, joined Gareth Parker on 6PR Breakfast to explain how it all went down. 

“I hadn’t picked up a cricket ball in a year,” he said,

“It was all a bit weird, to be honest,

“I won’t be able to retire now; it was just one of those magic days.”

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The second hat trick was caught on video, see the full footage below:

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