Manish in fact made the news known at the post-match presentation ceremony on Sunday when he said that ahead of the test that awaits in the limited-overs series against West Indies, he had the marriage test on Monday.
Sent into bat, Karnataka made a challenging 180 for five, riding on skipper Manish Pandey's 45-ball unbeaten 60 and useful contribution from Rohan Kadam (35), Devdutt Padikkal (32) and KL Rahul (22).
The former captain said what players do after bookies approach them is the biggest problem.
Mithun became the first bowler in the domestic circuit to claim a hat-trick in all the formats.
Pacer Abhimanyu Mithun found himself in the record books on Friday after he snared five wickets including a hat-trick in one over in the semi-finals of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy against Haryana.
Domestic giants Mumbai, despite its 22-run win in the last Super League game, failed to make it to the semi-finals as it needed to restrict Punjab below 150 after scoring a massive 243/3 in 20 overs.
Suryakumar Yadav scored an unbeaten 94 off 53 deliveries as he steered Mumbai to a seven-wicket victory over Karnataka.
For Punjab, Shubman Gill, who was released from Indian Test squad, fell for 11. They also lost other opener Abhishek Sharma (5) cheaply, to be reeling at 18-2
KL Rahul's unbeaten 84 helped Karnataka cruise to a seven-wicket win over Punjab in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
Rishabh Pant was released to allow him some game time ahead of the limited-overs series against West Indies and Andhra Pradesh and India A regular KS Bharat will join the side as a back up for Wriddhiman Saha.
During a Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 game, Shikhar Dhawan had suffered a cut in his knee and was taken to a hospital where he clicked selfies with the hospital staffs.
Delhi's part-time off-spinner Nitish Rana stole the show with the ball with figures of four for 17.
The focus will be on out-of-form opener Dhawan, who has not had a great run in recent times as well as Shaw, who recently returned to competitive cricket after serving an eight-month ban for a doping violation.
Prithvi Shaw made a strong return to cricket as he slammed a half-century on his return to cricket after the ban.
India opener Dhawan once again flopped, making just nine runs before being dismissed LBW by Utkarsh Singh. The left-hander was out for a duck against Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.
Shaw was banned from all forms of cricket by the BCCI for a (retrospective) period of eight months in July after failing a dope test during the Mushtaq Ali Trophy in March and his ban ends on Friday.
Shikhar Dhawan's misery continued in his domestic outing for Delhi in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
Mishra took the new ball after his side opted to bowl and took out Aditya Kaushik (4), Amit Verma (0) and Suyash Prabhudessai (0) in his second over, leaving Goa reeling at 7 for 4.
Rajasthan went down by 1 run (via the VJD method) finishing with 105 for 8 in a game to reduced to 13 overs due to rain.
In the rain-affected 13 overs per side contest between Rajasthan and Vidarbha, Chahar claimed his second hat-trick within three days.
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