The 12th match of IPL 2025 was played between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders. In this match played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, MI defeated KKR by 8 wickets. With this, Mumbai Indians have got the first win of the season. While this is KKR’s second consecutive defeat.
Batting first after losing the toss, KKR was reduced to 116 runs in 16.2 overs. In response to which Mumbai achieved the target in 12.5 overs. In this run chase, Ryan Riculton (62*) played a half -century innings. Earlier, Ashwini Kumar, debutant in bowling for MI, took 4 wickets. While Deepak Chahar took two, Bolt, Hardik, Vignesh and Santner took 1-1 wickets. Angkrish Raghuvanshi played the highest innings of 26 runs for Kolkata. At the same time, 5 batsmen were dismissed on single digit.
Talking about Mumbai’s innings, Rohit Sharma came to the ground as the impact all the player. He gave Mumbai a good start with Ryan Ricelton. Both of them partnered 46 runs in 5.2 overs for the first wicket. Rohit was seen in the rhythm but he could not reach the good start to the big score and caught the ball of Andre Russell at the hands of Harshit Rana.
Rohit scored 13 runs in 12 balls with the help of 1 six. From here, Ryan Ricelton did not give any chance to KKR and a stormy fifty. He scored an unbeaten 62 in 41 balls with the help of five fours and four sixes. Suryakumar Yadav also returned unbeaten on 27 runs. Both wickets were taken by Andre Russell from KKR.
At the same time, the start of KKR’s innings was very poor. He lost 4 wickets in the powerplay itself. The first left -arm fast bowler Trent Bolt made Sunil Naren (0) a clean bold. Then Deepak Chahar sent wicketkeeper batsman Quinton Deacock (1) to the pavilion. After this, Ashwini Kumar caught captain Ajinkya Rahane on the first ball of the debut match by Tilak Verma. While Deepak Chahar walked Venkatesh Iyer (3). At the time of Venkatesh Iyer’s dismissal, KKR’s score was 41 runs at the loss of 4 wickets.
Angkrish Raghuvanshi was seen in the touch, but he caught Naman Dhir in the process of playing a big shot on Hardik Pandya’s ball. Raghuvanshi scored 26 runs on 16 balls with the help of 3 fours and one six. Then the debutant Ashwini Kumar broke KKR’s back by dismissing Rink Singh (17), Impact Sub Manish Pandey (19) and Andre Russell (5). Then Harshit Rana was dismissed by Vignesh Purur. So Ramandeep Singh became the victim of Mitchell Santner by scoring 22 runs.
