Published 16:03 IST, November 30th 2019
Abhimanyu Mithun’s in-laws Sarath Kumar, Radikaa ecstatic over his magical feat
Abhimanyu Mithun’s in-laws Sarath Kumar, Radikaa Sarathkumar were ecstatic over the pacer becoming the first Indian to register hat-tricks in all formats.
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Abhimanyu Mithun is on fire! Karnataka pacer is arguably enjoying best phase of his career. After enjoying a dream birthday a month ago, with a hat-trick, speedster went even better, by t just talking ar hat-trick, but four wickets in four balls, before making it five wickets in a single over in Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy. Mithun established a record with his feat becoming first bowler to bag hat-tricks in all formats of Indian domestic cricket. His in-laws, Kollywood star couple Rikaa Sarathkumar-Sarath Kumar, too were ecstatic with achievement and expressed how proud y were feeling about his 'scintillating' performance.
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Proud in-laws
After Abhimanyu Mithun bagged five wickets in an over, veteran couple took to Twitter to express ir excitement. Rikaa shared a graphic of her son-in-law exulting over his feat and some of statistics of his achievement, figures of 4-0-39-5, that included four wickets in a row and becoming first bowler to take a hat-trick in Vijay Hazare trophy, Ranji Trophy and Syed Mustaq Ali tournaments. She captioned post, “Proud @imAmithun_264 , go for it.”
She even retweeted and replied to many posts as well, including one who wrote, “@imAmithun_264 most underrated bowler in India. He should have been given a chance in Australia or South Africa at least once. With kind of bounce he can generate he could have done wonders. But alas, he got to play test matches only in india. #SyedMushtaqAliTrophy.” Rikaa termed it as ‘true’ and termed a video of his feat as ‘awesome.’ Sarath Kumar, meanwhile, wrote, “Keep rocking Mithun. Scintillating performance. @imAmithun_264 @rayane_mithun @realrikaa.””
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Mithun is married to Rikaa Sarathkumar’s daughter, from her first marrri, Rayane. couple h tied kt in 2016. She also exulted over her husband’s achievement and wrote, "Action speak louder than words, he proves it once again!” She also retweeted several posts that h hailed his achievement.
Mithun’s feat helped Karnataka beat Haryana in semi-final and enter summit clash. y will lock horns with Tamil Nu for T20 competition’s trophy. Mithun’s previous hat-trick h helped Karnataka win Vijay Hazare trophy. It’d be interesting to see what he has in stores for final.
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15:49 IST, November 30th 2019