Introduction
KKR vs MI Clash Is it going to be a Thriller for Mumbai Indians ? After Winning the toss Mumbai Indian choose to bowl in this 12th match of this Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. From the very begining with the very first over Mumbai Indian had a good start and it continued and Kolkata Knight Riders are all out for 116 runs just in 16.2 overs. All the bowlers contribution brought down to earth, the KKR batters comes down like the spring leaves. The main bowler who contribute the most is Ashwani Kumar just made his debut for the Mumbai Indians in Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 took four wickets for 24 runs in four overs.
WHO IS ASHWANI KUMAR
Ashwani Kumar is a young Indian Left Arm Medium Fast Bowler born on August 29, 2001, is just 23 years of age. He made debut in first class cricket in 2019-2020 Ranji Trophy for Punjab, and his List A career for Punjab in Vijay Hazare Trophy. Mumbai Indians debut Ashwani Kumar scripts history, becomes first Mumbai Indians to take four wickets on IPL debut and first Indian also.. He dismissed the top KKR players and break the back bone of the opponent at Wankhede Stadium. He dismissed Ajinkya Rahane, Rinku Singh, Andre Russel and Manish Pandey.
The 23 years old left arm medium pace bowler spent last year in the Punjab Kings XI, but didn’t featured for Playing Eleven. In IPL 2025 auction Mumbai Indians make a bid for him and signed for Rs. 30 Lakhs. He made his T20 debut for Punjab in the Syed Mustaq Ali Trophy during 2022. In today’s encounter for MI he replaced Satyanarayan Raju and repaid the team’s faith by dimissing four players including KKR’s captain Ajinkye Rahane on his very first ball he bowled of his career in Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025.
Head to Head KKR vs MI
Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians faced each other in 34 matches in the IPL history. KKR won 11 times and MI won on 23 occasions. The head to head performance of both the teams KKR vs MI Clash is as below:
KKR vs MI
34 Matches Played 34
11 won 23
23 Lost 11
232 Highest Score 210
67 Lowest Score 108
Score Board KKR vs MI
Batting Score Card for KKR
Batting R B 4’s 6’s S/R
Q. Kock 1 3 0 0 33.33
c.Ashwani b D. Chahar
S. Narine 0 2 0 0 0.00
b T. Boult
A. Rahane 11 7 1 1 157.14
c T.Verma b Ashwani Kumar
Raghuvanshi 26 16 3 1 162.50
c N. Dhir b H. Pandya
V. Iyer 3 9 0 0 33.33
c r. Rickelton b D. Chahar
R. Singh 17 14 1 1 121.43
c N. Dhir b Ashwani Kumar
M. Pandey 19 14 2 1 135.71
b Ashwani Kumar
A. Russel 5 11 1 0 45.45
b Ashwani Kumar
R. Singh 22 12 1 2 183.33
c H.Pandya b M. Santner
H. Rana 4 8 0 0 50.00
c N.Dhir b V.Puthur
S. Johnson 1 3 0 0 33.33
not out
Extras 7 Runs
( Nb 1, W 4, Lb 2)
Total 116 ( all out in16.2 overs)
Yet to Bat
Varun Chakravarthy
Bowling Analysis for MI
Bowler O M R W Econ.
T. Boult 4.0 0 23 1 5.17
D.Chahar 2.0 0 19 2 9.50
Ashwani 3.0 0 24 4 10.00
H.Pandya 2.0 0 10 1 8.00
V.Puthur 2.0 0 21 1 10.50
M.Santner 3.2 0 17 1 5.10
Batting Score Card For MI
Batting R B 4’s 6’s S/R
R.Sharma 13 12 0 1 108.33
c A.Rahane b A.Russel
R.Rickelton 62 41 4 5 151.22
not out
W. Jacks 16 17 0 1 94.12
c A.Rahane bA.Russell
S.k. Yadav 27 9 3 2 300.00
not out
Extras 3 Runs
(Nb 2, W 1)
Total 121 (2 wkts in12.5 overs)
Yet to Bat
H. Pandya, T. Varma, N. Dhir, Mitchel Santner, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult,
Ashwani Kumar, Vignesh Puthur
Bowling Analysis for KKR
Bowler O M R W Econ.
S.Johnson 2 0 14 0 7.00
H. Rana 2 0 28 0 14.00
Varun Chakarvarthy
3 0 12 0 4.00
A.Russell 2.5 0 35 2 12.35
S. Naraine 3 0 32 0 10.67
Conclusion
KKR vs MI encounter Mumbai Indians defeated Kolkata Knight Riders very comfortably by 8 wickets in 12.5 overs and registered their first win of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. Also justifies the decision of the Captain Hardik Pandya to the inclusion of the uncapped player Ashwani Kumar and showed his faith in the team when Mumbai needed a must win game. This added the few stars in his team selection decision.
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