WORCESTERSHIRE Rapids seamer bowler Joe Leach has taken a hat-trick from the first three balls of today’s Royal London One-Day Cup match against Northamptonshire Steelbacks at New Road.

Leach removed Richard Levi with the first delivery of the game, Rob Keogh with the second and then completed a remarkable hat-trick by dismissing Ben Duckett.

Northamptonshire had won the toss and chosen to bat first.