SO FAR 49 HAT TRICKS HAVE BEEN SCORED IN WORLD CUP HISTORY.

When the German Thomas Muller scored the first hat trick in the 2014 world cup match verses Portugal it also became the 49th hat trick in World cup history, that is from the first world cup match played in 1930 in Uruguay. But Gabriel Batistuta of Argentina is the only footballer in world cup history to score hat tricks in two successive world cups .