The sister and nephew of former IPL cricketer Paul Valthaty died in a fire that engulfed a residential building in Mumbai’s Kandivali locality on Monday.
Paul , who represented Punjab Kings (then Kings XI Punjab) and Rajasthan Royals, was also in the building alongside his family when the fire broke out.
The two deceased, Glory Valthaty (45) and Joshua Gems Robert (8) reside in Scotland and were in Mumbai for a family visit.
Glory was visiting her ailing parents, both bedridden, who reside at the 8-storey Veena Santoor Cooperative Housing Society. The family was in the building when the fire broke out.
As per the report, the Valthaty family lives in the fourth floor of the F wing. It further added that once the fire broke out, Paul, his wife children and Glory’s elder daughter rushed downstairs.
However, Glory and two house helps got stuck in the staircase.
“Glory’s husband, Noel Robert, was inside the flat with the ailing parents. He asked his wife and son to rush out along with house-maids. Ideally, they were supposed to go upstairs toward the terrace. But we do not know why they went downstairs,” Gladstone Behra, a relative, was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.
Paul Valthaty hit the headlines in 2011 when he scored 120 for Kings XI Punjab against Chennai Super Kings in an IPL contest and thus setting the record for the highest score by an uncapped player in the competition’s history before Yashasvi Jaiswal broke it earlier this year.
Valthaty had a memorable IPL 2011 as he finished with 463 runs. However, loss of form and injury left a severe impact on his career.
Valthaty suffered an eye injury while representing India at the ICC Under-19 World Cup in 2002 which halted his career for a while.
After undergoing treatment, he resumed playing cricket but the injury affected his vision and he still suffers from diplopia or in common parlance double vision.
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