MI vs KKR 2025: Mumbai Indians Dominate KKR in a Low-Scoring Clash; Dream Debut for Ashwani Kumar
MI vs KKR 2025: What a spectacular performance by Mumbai Indians at Wankhede Stadium! Mumbai Indians have registered their first victory of IPL 2025 defeating Kolkata Knight Riders by 8 Wickets in a low-scoring contest at Wankhede.
The credit should go to the bowling unit without any discussion. More precisely, credit goes to the debutant Ashwini Kumar who picked up 4 wickets in three overs. Paras Mhambrey and Lasith Malinga, the bowling coaches of Mumbai Indians would be happy with the performance.
Let's take a look at the action on the field in MI vs KKR 2025 Match:
MI vs KKR 2025 Match Report
Toss and Playing11s
Hardik Pandya flipped the coin and Rahane made the wrong call. Pandya called for bowling first without wasting even a second. The playing XI saw three changes from their previous defeat against Gujarat Titans. Allrounder Will Jacks, left-arm wrist spinner Vignesh Puthur, and uncapped left-arm seamer Ashwani Kumar were included in the squad. Meanwhile, Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Satyanarayana Raju were left out and Rohit Sharma was the impact sub (in batting).
Ajinkya Rahane admitted he would also have opted to bowl first. "It is a pretty good toss to lose," he said. Sunil Narine was fit and he replaced Moeen Ali in the Playing11.
Kolkata Knight Riders Playing11: Quinton de Kock(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Spencer Johnson, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy
Mumbai Indians Playing11: Ryan Rickelton(w), Will Jacks, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Naman Dhir, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Ashwani Kumar, Vignesh Puthur
Mumbai Indians were all over Kolkata Knight Riders right from the start. KKR lost their three wickets within the first 20 balls, Half of the Kolkata side was out under 7 overs with 45 runs on the board. Ashwini Kumar, the left-arm quick bowler, announced his arrival with a wicket off the first ball.
Rinku Singh and Manish Pandey made some recovery but not for too long as Ashwini Kumar got both of'em. The way Ashwini Kumar bamboozled Manish Pandey and Andre Russell shows this 23-year-old is going to have a bright future. His four-wicket haul put KKR in deep trouble with 88 for 8 wickets down in 13 overs.
Ramandeep added valuable 22 runs late in the innings that helped KKR to post 116 runs before getting bowled out in 16 overs. MI lost both of their games in IPL 2025 but it didn't seem MI messing it up.
The chase began with a blistering start from Ryan Rickelton and Rohit Sharma. Harshit Rana conceded 28 runs in his two powerplay overs, allowing MI to reach 44 runs in five overs despite a quiet first over yielding just one run. Andre Russell then dismissed Rohit Sharma with a sharp short ball, but MI still managed to post 55 runs in the powerplay, nearly halving the required target.
Ryan Rickelton was struggling to middle the ball at the start but got a good rhythm going forward. He got his maiden fifty in IPL 2025 and with a blistering knock of 62 runs, he drove Mumbai Indians to a big win by 8 wickets under 13 overs against Kolkata Knight Riders.
MI vs KKR Scorecard
KKR- 116/10 (16.2 Overs)
Angkrish Raghuvanshi- 26(16)
Ashwini Kumar- 3-0-24-4
MI- 121/2 (12.5 overs)
Ryan Rickelton- 62*(41)
Dre Russ- 2.5-0-35-2
