Former India pacer Abhimanyu Mithun scalped five wickets in an over in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy semi-final against Karnataka on Friday. Bowling the final over Mithin delivered a sequence to remember Wicket, Wicket, Wicket, Wide, One Run, Wicket - to claim a hatrick and finish his spell with figures of 5/39. Haryana went from 192 for 3 to 194 for 8 in the process of Mithun's sensational 20th over.
By virtue of achieving this unique feat Mithun becomes the first player to take a hat-trick in all three of India's top-tier domestic level tournaments. This is only the second instance in T20 cricket that a bowler has taken five wickets in an over – Bangladesh bowler Al Amin Hossain did this feat in a domestic T20 match in 2013.The 30-year old lanky pacer has played 4 Tests and 5 ODIs for India and was part of Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL for a few years.
Neil Wagner (Otago vs Wellington, 2011) Bill Copson (Derbyshire v Warwickshire, 1937), William Henderson (Northern Transvaal v Orange Free State 1938), Pat Pocock (Surrey v Sussex, 1972) and Yasser Arafat (Rawalpindi v Faisalabad 2004) are the elite few who have scripted a similar feat – taking 5 wickets in an over - in First Class cricket.
