Nathan Ellis bowled Mahmudullah on the fourth ball of his final over, then followed it up with a slower ball which saw Mustafizur Rahman hole out to deep mid-wicket. He achieved his hat-trick by having Mehedi Hasan caught at deep square leg.

 

The 26-year-old New South Welshman's hat-trick is the 17th in T20 International cricket, and the third by an Australian after the ones by Brett Lee (2007) and Ashton Agar (2020).

 

The hat-trick is a rare bright spot for Australia on what has turned out to be a horrible T20 trip to Bangladesh. They have already lost the first two T20 International games. Although Ellis's three wickets restricted Bangladesh to 127/9, Australia got off to a very slow start, scoring 36/1 in eight overs.