Sinopsis: Ashwani Kumar made stars with his all-in-or-bust aggressive approach as KKR on MI Debut
The pair of nights, Mumbai Indians struggled to face a dull track in Ahmedabad. On Monday night, in the den of his home, where there was a greater speed and bounce on the proposal, he wreaked havoc, limited Kolkata Knight Riders to just 116. Once he took four wickets inside the powerplay, the writing was on the wall, and his talented young man Ashwani Kumar did not allow KKR to get back a four-fur. 23 -year -old, by his own entry, was nervous during the day, there was only one banana for lunch, but decided to be a KKR batsman for dinner.
All in or bust, KKR’s way
He used to lose five wickets in the first seven overs as he kept going for it, although it should be said that his shot selection – or at least execution – was absolutely not right. Sunil Narin reshuffled the leg stump, but received a peach of a behavior from the left-arm Trent Bault. It was filled and curved from around a middle, in a hurry by defeating Jab and holding stumps.
The second wicket looked like a gift as Quinton de Kock slammed out a well -out delivery for additional cover, but Deepak Char also tried the same delivery to the previous ball. He slipped as a wide, but he again went to that line, and found his man.
This was when KKR’s approach had come to the foreground by then, Mumbai had decided that the ideal way on this track was to bounce the batsmen. Bault tried it against Rahen, which is a good pull and sent it to long and long. But after an inexpensive dismissal, Rahane went out of the left -handed Ashwini Kumar for a large slash for a large slash for a large slash, and found a Jugal Tilak Verma at a deep backward point. This was a wicket on his first ball in the IPL, the 15th player to do so in the IPL.
Ryan Ricelton of MI against KKR during the IPL 2025 match in action. (Express photo by Amit Chakraborty)
In the 6th over, Venkatesh Iyer allowed four to a small ball, and practiced an upper-cut. And when the opportunity for that shot came, he went for it, although not as effectively as he liked. The delivery was very close to him and jumped rapidly, and there was a lack of room and time, Iyer could only wings the wicketkeeper. And when Pandya inspired Angikash Raghuvanshi, who appeared to the best batsman in the top order in his brief stay with clips and punches, to pull one in the deep square-leg, KKR was stating at 45 for 5 in 7 overs. He was forced to choose an additional batsman as his influence player in Manish Pandey – and so he was not able to use Vaibhav Arora in the chase.
Ashwani sparkles
The left-handed semen has obtained a reputation in a T20 league, Sher-e-Punjab, especially for his death at a slow pace for his death at a slow pace. He did not have to use any of those skills on Monday. Rahane’s first wicket may not look like a great delivery, but his cricketing intelligence showed it in the remaining part.
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Rinku Singh, in constant search for Big Hits and who had almost long out for a long time, accused Ashwini, who pulled back by pulling back the length. The resulting carving was held at a deep point.
KKR kept trying to kill him, and went back to the pavilion. Manish Pandey accused him and took a small ball on a short ball. Three delivery in that over was all reduced, and Ashwani adjusted with a slightly full full at a length. They pushed it forward with a fried seam release and shaped it towards leg-stump and the movement stopped Pandey, which used to stab a weak stab and pushed it inside his stumps inside.
Ashwani followed a uniform set-up to take the huge hitter Andre Russell down. A debut vs the Big Hitter was quite a competition. Again, he bounced some delivery and Russell did not get the bat on the ball. Then he crouted, opened his stand and waited for the next ball to move. But it was not a small one of Ashwani; Instead, a length delivery that came up with an angle and the slogan exploded to crash in the stump. 8 for 8, and KKR’s last great hope was gone.
“I did not have a lunch this afternoon, I only ate a banana, there was some pressure, so I did not hurt. I made a plan, he (team management) told me that this is my first match ‘So enjoy myself and return your skills’. The captain also played his role, Hardik Bhai told me that I am happy too.
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Hopefully, he had a good dinner, opener Ryan Recienton saw the KKR attack breaking Smitherens, before Suryakumar Yadav applied Finishing Touch with an unbeaten 27 of 9-tenders, with some specific instantaneous shots to be targeted behind stumps.
Brief score: Kolkata Knight Riders 116 All Out in 16.2 overs (Angkarish Raghuvanshi 26; Ashwani Kumar 4/24) lost to Mumbai Indians 121/2 in 12.5 overs (Ryan Ryan Ricelton 62, Suryakumar Yadav 27 Not Out) 8 wickets.
