Didn’t know about hat-trick, says Thisara Perera

Sri Lanka pace bowler Thisara Perera said he did not realise that he had taken a hat-trick till his teammates informed him about it, as his entire concentration was on bowling in the death overs during the second T20.

“Actually, I didn’t know that it was a hat-trick. Because that time my concentration was about my death bowling,” Perera said.

“My teammates told me I got a hat-trick. Then I thought it was very good for me,” he said when asked when did he come to know about the feat.

It was Perera’s second hat-trick — the first was in an ODI against Pakistan.