when we repeat something three times it is called hat-trick ,why ?

Answer 1

Cricket. A bowler taking three wickets with successive balls would win a hat. The term then spread to other sports. Began about a century ago and is now used for three things done successfully in sports from soccer to hockey to darts..

Answer 2

It comes from the English game of cricket and refers to a bowler who takes three wickets with three successive balls. For those more familiar with baseball, this is an impressive achievement, similar to a baseball pitcher striking out three batters in a row, but much less common. It seems to have been the custom in the nineteenth century for such a paragon of the art to be awarded a new hat by his club as a mark of his success. However, it is sometimes also said that the phrase alludes to a distinctly more plebeian reward in which the bowler was permitted to take his hat around the crowd for a collection (not necessarily a bowler hat, of course: that was named after a couple of completely different chaps, Messrs Thomas and William Bowler, hatmakers). Hat trick was first recorded in print in the 1870s, but has since been widened to apply to any sport in which the person competing carries off some feat three times in quick succession, such as scoring three goals in one game of soccer.

Answer 3

Not repeat 'something' but repeating 'success' three times consecutively. The term 'hat trick' originated from the game of cricket. Since this is a rare achievement by a bowler taking three wickets from the consecutive three balls, this feat has come to be known as 'hat trick'. This term has spread to other games and other fields too.

Answer 4

It comes from the English game of cricket and refers to a bowler who takes three wickets with three successive balls. For those more familiar with baseball, this is an impressive achievement, similar to a baseball pitcher striking out three batters in a row, but much less common. It seems to have been the custom in the nineteenth century for such a paragon of the art to be awarded a new hat by his club as a mark of his success. However, it is sometimes also said that the phrase alludes to a distinctly more plebeian reward in which the bowler was permitted to take his hat around the crowd for a collection (not necessarily a bowler hat, of course: that was named after a couple of completely different chaps, Messrs Thomas and William Bowler, hatmakers). Hat trick was first recorded in print in the 1870s, but has since been widened to apply to any sport in which the person competing carries off some feat three times in quick succession, such as scoring three goals in one game of soccer.

Answer 5

The term was originally used in cricket, and was connected with the custom of giving a hat or cap to a bowler who achieved the feat of taking three wickets in a row. It may be connected with the concept of giving someone their "cap", i.e. acknowledging them as a regular member of a representative team. Another school of thought mentions that a bowler was challenged if he could take three in three. Hats were passed around to collect the odds. The bowler succeeded and collected the large amount of cash. Thus the term hat-trick could have been also derived from this event.

A hat-trick occurs in cricket when a bowler dismisses three batsmen with consecutive deliveries. The deliveries may be interrupted by an over bowled by another bowler from the other end of the pitch or the other team's innings, but must be three consecutive deliveries by the individual bowler. Only wickets attributed to the bowler count; i.e., run outs do not contribute to a hat-trick.

Hat tricks are very rare and as such are highly treasured by bowlers. The term was first used to describe HH Stephenson's feat in 1858[1] and was used in print for the first time in 1878[2]. In Test cricket history there have been just 36 hat-tricks, the first achieved by Fred Spofforth for Australia against England in 1879, and the most recent by Irfan Pathan for India against Pakistan in 2006. In 1912, Australian Jimmy Matthews achieved the feat twice in one game against South Africa. The only other players to achieve two hat-tricks are Australia's Hugh Trumble, against England in 1902 and 1904, and Pakistan's Wasim Akram, in separate games against Sri Lanka in 1999.

In One-day International cricket there have been 22 hat-tricks up to October 2006, the first by Jalal-ud-Din for Pakistan against Australia in 1982. Three players have taken two one-day international hat tricks in their careers: Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq of Pakistan and Chaminda Vaas of Sri Lanka. (Akram therefore has four international hat-tricks in total).

Taking two wickets in two consecutive deliveries is occasionally known as a brace, or being on a hat-trick. This is only a run-up to the hat-trick. If a hat-trick is not achieved, it is not called a brace.

Four wickets in four balls is sometimes called a double hat-trick, as it will contain two different sets of three consecutively dismissed batsmen. While double hat-tricks have occurred in first class cricket, no double hat-tricks have yet been taken in Test or One-day International matches.

Answer 6

3 goals by one guy in one game - hockey is a hat trick

Answer 7

It's a hockey term. Is means the other team gets to have the advantage of having more people on the ice than the opposing team...I think. I know it means 3 times.