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Abhimanyu Mithun : Top Wicket Taker 2009/10 RANJI SEASON

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I have been talking about him to all my friends , since that IPL match & for the first time am so excited to see an indian fast bowler his action needs some correction , but still was looking effortless when he was bowling at 140+ in that IPL match ...this guy will hit 150kph easily
tere mooh mein ghee shakkar bririyani kebab daaru sab kuch...........main marne se pehle ek indian bowler ko lagatar 150kph bowl karte dekhne chahta hun:pray::pray::pray::pray:
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Karan114 Newbie

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Don't think he is ready for that leap yet..afterall JP Duminy literally murdered him in that match. Best to let him play domestic for sometime. No point in him coming in and having a great beginning like Ishant did only to spiral downward from there..there is nothing to guarentee he will have a great start even.
I don't disagree Raina...just saying that if he looks exceptional at FC level, he shouldn't be wasted there against some unknown batsmen in pointless games. Otherwise you are right, he should be tested out longer at domestic
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cowboysfan Grand Master

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Don't think he is ready for that leap yet..afterall JP Duminy literally murdered him in that match. Best to let him play domestic for sometime. No point in him coming in and having a great beginning like Ishant did only to spiral downward from there..there is nothing to guarentee he will have a great start even.
i dont disagree with you but i have come to the conclusion that no T20 performance no matter how bad or how good should be taken seriously.just look at Dumniny now,he cant buy a run.
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^ Yes that certainly is a valid point. Its important that Mithun come through based on his performance in Ranji/ A tours. If he is really good as G.Vishwanath and Shaun Williams believe then he should have no problems topping Ranji bowling charts for 2 seasons atleast. Some very ordinary bowlers like Bose do it regularly.

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urbestfriend Enthusiast

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^^^ You cant be very sure of Ranji performance of a fast bowler. Its usually medium pacers like Joginder sharma, bose , vinay kumar etc are topping Ranji bowling charts ...But I agree with you he should be allowed to play for one or two season. Anyway he has a long way to go before getting selected for south zone team.

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During their golden run in the 90s, Karnataka's fast-bowling contingent was the envy of the country, being able to choose from Javagal Srinath, Venkatesh Prasad, Dodda Ganesh and David Johnson. Since that quartet faded, they have rarely had a seam attack to be proud of. R Vinay Kumar have proven a reliable performer for six seasons now, but support from the other end has been thin. NC Aiyappa briefly got the Karnataka fans excited but a series of injuries eroded his pace and confidence. B Akhil was a willing trier, but he was never going to run through the opposition, as one five-wicket haul in 51 matches indicates. This season, though, left-armer S Aravind has proved effective and, of far more importance, the emergence of 20-year-old Abhimanyu Mithun has injected some serious pace. Mithun's 38 wickets, one less than country-wide leader Vinay Kumar, has been one of the keys to extracting Karnataka from the rut of mediocrity they had been trapped in over the past few years. He jumpstarted the season with a match-winning 11 wickets on debut, including a hat-trick, against Uttar Pradesh in Meerut, that earned instant comparisons with the last Karnataka bowler to take three-in-three in his first game - Srinath. It was his speed that made the difference on Tuesday, on a placid track where more celebrated pacers like RP Singh and Praveen Kumar had barely troubled the batsmen. In the first over of the morning, it seemed it would be another day for the batsmen after most balls reached the wicketkeeper only after the second bounce. Mithun, though, got rid of Tanmay Srivastava by tempting him to flail at one well away from his body. That was followed by an exhaustive appraisal of Rohit Prakash Srivastava's technique against the short ball. Rohit somehow preserved his wicket against the bouncers: several times he barely ducked under, once he was struck on his back, once on his forearm. At the other end, Kaif was also not having an easy time, nicking Mithun once between slip and the wicketkeeper. Kaif was finally dismissed after his attempted defence only had the ball trickling back on to the stumps. It wasn't all about the chin music, though. When Amir Khan walked out for his first ball, he was greeted with a pinpoint yorker, the same delivery that had undone Amir for a golden duck during Mithun's Meerut hat-trick. Amir lasted two deliveries more this time, before Mithun had him spooning a catch to square leg. Even after Rahul Dravid's double-century, there was an outside chance that UP could sneak through to the finals, by outbatting Karnataka as they had last season at the Chinnaswamy. Mithun's heroics made sure there was a different script this time. Abhimanyu Mithun jumpstarted the season with a match-winning 11 wickets on debut, including a hat-trick, against Uttar Pradesh in Meerut, that earned instant comparisons with the last Karnataka bowler to take three-in-three in his first game - Javagal Srinath. The wildly successful start to his first-class career is an unlikely story, given that he took to leather ball cricket only three years ago. He had a similarly successful start to his Under-19 career, taking a hat-trick in his third match on his way to being among the leading wicket-takers in the 2007-08 Cooch Behar Trophy. Was he hoping to join Karnataka team-mate Manish Pandey in the squad for the U-19 World Cup where Virat Kohli's boy triumphed? "Yeah, I did very well at that time, I was thinking I might play," he said, "but I thought since that was my first year, some more experienced players will there." Despite the bucketload of wickets in the U-19s, he came into the spotlight only after Bangalore Royal Challengers coach, Ray Jennings, spoke highly of him ahead of the second IPL season. "He gave me a lot of confidence during the IPL season," Mithun says. "Bowling coach Eric Simons also helped me a lot." His one IPL appearance was not one to savour, leaking 42 runs in four overs. One reason for that was the lack of variation in pace. "I still don't have the confidence to bowl the slower ball. As of now, I'm focused on bowling some good outswingers (his stock ball is the in-cutter)." In the Ranji Trophy, though, his incisive partnership with Vinay Kumar has Karnataka eying a first title in 11 years.
http://www.cricinfo.com/ranjisuperleague2009/content/current/story/442595.html A genuine hope indeed!Hope he'll play for India one day :pray:
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