The term originated over 150 years
ago on the cricket pitch in the United Kingdom: the bowler who retired three batsmen with three consecutive balls was awarded a new hat.
Not exact matches
While working
on a rare little known group of Oriental wasps that most likely parasitise the eggs of grasshoppers, locusts or
crickets, not only did a team of four entomologists discover four previously unknown species, but they also found that another four species within the same genus (Habroteleia) were in fact all one and the same — a fifth species discovered more than a century
ago.
Several years
ago, Gene Stevens and other condo owners of the
Cricket Club Condominiums sued the
Cricket Club Board of Directors for breach of fiduciary duty, seeking compensatory damages from the Board because the condo owners alleged that Condo Board of Directors spent special assessment money
on things outside of those described in the Notice of Special Assessment that was sent to the condo unit owners.