Mumbai Indians opened their account at the IPL 2025 points table with a wide win over Kolkata Knight Riders at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
In the first over of the match, proceedings started with Trent Bowlt striking as it does not do much. Deepak Char also kept pressure in the powerplay and by the time the ground opened, KKR had lost 4 wickets. In fact, KKR was forced to use his impact player to bring him into an additional batsman despite the first batting. However, the move did not help as Ashwani Kumar (4/24), who took a wicket with his first ball, ruined the order between KKR. Eventually, Knight Riders were excluded for a paletry 116.
MI was an even more easy time to chase because Ryan Ricelton (62* 41 runs) decided to bring and chase his A-game. Even without much support from the rest of the top three, Suryakumar Yadav assisted Ricelton with a fireworks to chase the target in just 12.5 overs.
Here are the most important numbers from sports.
1 – Trent Bault has the most wickets with 30 wickets by any bowler in the first over of the innings in the IPL. Bhuvneshwar Kumar is behind with 27.
3 – Deepak Chahar is now taking the third biggest wicket in the powerplay in the IPL. Bhuvneshwar Kumar leads the pack with 73, while Trent Bault (63), Char (61) and Sandeep Sharma (60) are in a neck competition from a neck.
10 – Ashwani Kumar became the tenth player to take a wicket on the first ball, which he bowled in the beginning of his IPL. Three out of these ten were playing for MI.
15 – Ashwani Kumar is the fifteenth player who took a wicket on the first ball, which he bowled in his IPL career, even if the related match would be his start. This list of fifteen includes adam Gilchrist.
4 – Ashwani Kumar's bowling figures are the fourth best on IPL debut by any player and the best on IPL debut by an Indian player. The best bowling figures on IPL debut are also the best bowling figures in the IPL so far – 6/12 by Alzari Joseph against SRH in 2019. Andrew Tie is the only other player to take a feeler in his first IPL match.
Incidentally, Joseph was playing for MI in the match and also took a wicket with the first ball, which he bowled.
The last best bowling figures by an Indian player on IPL debut were Amit Singh's 3/9 against PBK in 2019. Singh also asked for a wicket with the first ball in the players' list, which he bowled in the IPL.
Logically, Kumar's figures are the second best by any player in their first match for MI in the IPL.
5 – Suryakumar Yadav became the fifth Indian player to cross the 8,000 -run milestone in T20. Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Suresh Raina are ahead of him.
2 – From the number of balls taken, Yadav is the second fastest for 8,000 T20 runs, only behind Andre Russell.
3 – Among 35 players with 8,000 or more T20 runs, Suryakumar Yadav's 152.28 strike-by-third largest. Only Andre Russell and Glenn Maxwell are ahead of him.
1 – MI registered its 24th win in IPL matches against KKR, the highest by a team in the league. The next best CSK's 21 wins are associated with KKR's own 21 wins over RCB.
1 – MI is now the highest win by any team in a single stadium in the IPL. The match was MI's 53rd win at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The KKR is one close to the Eden Gardens in Kolkata with a 52 win.
1 – The match marked MI's tenth win over KKR at Wankhede Stadium in IPL. This is most that one team has defeated the other in the same ground in the league. The next best KKR has nine on PBKs in Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
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