The 12th match of IPL 2025 is being played between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. After winning the toss in this match, Hardik Pandya’s Mumbai team decided to bowl first. During this, Ashwini Kumar has got a chance in the playing 11 of Mumbai Indians. At the same time, the right use of this opportunity was learned from this 23 -year -old player. Who has taken 4 wickets in his debut match.
Ashwin has made a special achievement by dismissing KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane on the first ball of his IPL career. Ali Murtaza, Aljari Joseph and Dewald Brevis have taken wickets on the first ball of the debut match before Ashwini for Mumbai. Adhini Kumar, who made his IPL debut through this match, appeared in a fatal form. However, after this Ashwin has taken three wickets.
Where he made history by sending the first wicket to Ajinkya Rahane, the second, Rinku Singh, Manish Pandey and Andre Russell made history by taking four wickets in their debut match.
Overall Ashwini is the 10th bowler who has taken a wicket on the first ball of his IPL debut match. Before Ashwini, Mathisha Pathirana was the last bowler who made this achievement in the IPL. Along with this, Ashwin Kumar took four wickets for 11 runs in three overs on his debut. This is the fourth best performance of a bowler on debut in IPL history. Ashwini’s performance is an Indian’s best performance on his debut. At the same time, the record for the best performance on the IPL is in the name of Aljari Joseph, who took 6 wickets for 12 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad while playing for Mumbai Indians in 2019.
Who is Ashwin Kumar?
23 -year -old Ashwini Kumar is a Punjab bowler. Ashwini impressed the scouts of Mumbai Indians on the basis of excellent performance in the Sher-e-Punjab T20 Trophy 2024. Ashwini impressed Death Gedambaji in that tournament. He made his debut for Punjab in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2022, but got a chance to play in just four matches. Ashwini also played two first class and four list a matches for Punjab. At the same time, Ashwini was bought by Mumbai by paying Rs 20 lakh in the mega auction.
