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Australia's Mitchell Starc has made history by taking a second hat-trick in the same Sheffield Shield game.
The pace-man took the last three wickets of each innings, finishing with seven in total, as his New South Wales side beat Western Australia by 171 runs.
The 27-year-old becomes the first bowler to complete the feat in the same Shield match and is only the eighth player to do it in a first-class game, reports BBC.
He is continuing his comeback from injury before the Ashes this winter.
Starc missed Australia's tour of Bangladesh in August with a foot problem.
In his only other four-day game since returning, Starc took 10 wickets in the match, including 8-73 in the second innings, as NSW hammered South Australia.
The first Ashes Test begins in Brisbane on 23 November.