IPL 2025: Mumbai Indians opened account, won the first match by defeating KKR, it was possible due to 23 -year -old player

New Delhi. In the 12th match of IPL 2025, the Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians (KKR vs Mi) team came face to face. In this match, Mumbai registered a stunning win by 8 wickets. Thanks to the superb bowling of 23 -year -old Ashwani Kumar, MI all out KKR for 116 runs. While chasing, Mumbai Indians achieved this score in 12.5 overs.

KKR started very poorly when openers Quinton Dickock (one) and Sunil Narayan (0) were dismissed in the first two overs. At the end of the powerplay, KKR’s score was 41 runs for four wickets. Bolt dismissed Sunil Narayan on a full -fledged ball in the first over. In the next over, Chahar caught Dickock at the hands of Ashwani on mid -off.

KKR’s poor batting

Rahane tried to reduce the pressure by putting a six and a four, but Ashwani sent him to the pavilion on the first ball. The Punjab fast bowler tempted the KKR captain to play and play in the air and caught them at the deep backward point. Ashwani of 23 took the wickets of Ajinkya Rahane (11), Rinku Singh (17), Manish Pandey (17) and Andre Russell 5). Deepak Chahar took two wickets for 19 runs while Trent Bolt got one wicket.

KKR scored 116 runs

Angkrish Raghuvanshi (26) hit fours on both sides of the wicket and also hit Ashwani a six. Raghuvanshi also returned to the pavilion after playing irresponsible shots. On the ball of Hardik Pandya, Naman Dhir caught his catch at Deep Square leg. Pandey, who came as impact all, was dismissed by Ashwani in the 11th over. In this way KKR scored 116 runs in 16.2 overs.

Ryan’s half -century

The team of Mumbai Indians came out to chase and won in 12.5 overs. Rohit Sharma, who came out for opening, could score 13 runs in 11 balls but Ryan Ricelton, who came with him, scored a brilliant 62 runs. Will Jacks scored 16 runs. So at the same time, while batting till the end, Suryakumar Yadav hit 27 runs and gave Mumbai the first win of the tournament. Andra Russell took 2 wickets for KKR.