India, Aug. 29 -- Auqib Nabi scripted history on Friday during the Duleep Trophy match between North Zone and East Zone. The right-arm pacer from Jammu and Kashmir ran riot with the ball and claimed four wickets off four balls against East Zone. The 28-year-old was right on the money with a hat-trick on the last three balls of the 53rd over. He got the better of Virat Singh on the fourth ball of the over and then followed it up with Manishi and Mukhtar Hussain's scalps to complete his hat-trick. With the triple strike, he joined an elusive list and became the third bowler in Duleep Trophy history to claim a hat-trick, joining Kapil Dev (North Zone vs West Zone, 1978-79) and Sairaj Bahutule (West Zone vs East Zone, 2001).

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