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One of rarest feat in annals of cricket is no longer like climbing 'the Mt. Everest' in Indian Premier League. This judgment one can make after witnessing two hat-tricks by part time bowlers Rohit Sharma and Yuvraj Singh. Similar things had happened edition of IPL also in which some bowlers who no where in limelight came to the party with a hat-trick. And incidentally it was their only take-away from the tournament.
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Why suddenly hat-tricks have become so common. Throwing a thinking hat we came up following reasons for these part-time Hat-trick.

• Apart from the two IPL 2.0 hat-tricks achieved by a part-time bowlers other evident thing is that both were taken over two overs. The hat-trick ball was the first ball of second over. Historically in cricket batsmen have played the hat-trick ball very cautiously. While playing the first ball of the fresh over the batsman in bought occasions might not have thought consciously about carry over hat-trick.
• T20 is slam-bang. In T20 format batsmen try to score maximum runs in every ball. This happens mostly in last few over of first innings or when the required rate is very high while chasing. So batsmen won't really care whether they will be favoring the bowler to earn a hat-trick.
• Casualness while playing part-time bowlers. There were many theories in cricket that part-time bowlers or say non strike bowler get major share of wickets. If one can remember golden days of Pakistan's bowling attack when in a match Abdur-Razzaq, Azhar Mehmood, Shahid Afridi together used to get more wickets than total tally of Wasim Akram, Shoaib Akthar, Saqlain Mustaq. i.e. batsmen will have a big relief while facing a part-time bowler and try to compensate for less scored against strike bowlers. The same reasoning can be given for two hat-tricks of IPL 2.0

There can be more reasoning .. let's wait for more hat-tricks in IPL 2.0.