Mumbai Indians defeated Kolkata by 8 wickets with the help of Ashwini Kumar's outstanding bowling

With the outstanding bowling of Ashwini Kumar, Mumbai Indians (MI) defeated Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 8 wickets with 43 balls remaining in the 12th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. Mumbai has registered its first win this season. Mumbai has reached the fifth position of the points table with this win. KKR has reached the end of the points table.

Against the Kolkata Knight Riders' total of 116 runs, for Mumbai Indians, the opening duo of Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickleton contributed 46 for the first wicket. Russell snapped this association in the sixth over, removing Rohit Sharma (13).

Russell then picked up his second victim, Will Jacks (16). Mumbai scored 121 for two wickets off 12.5 overs and won the match by eight wickets. Ryan Rickleton played a match-winning (62) run innings, hitting four fours and five sixes off 41 balls. Suryakumar Yadav scored (27 not out) runs, hitting three fours and two sixes off nine balls. Andre Russell picked up two wickets for Kolkata Knight Riders.

Earlier today, Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and decided to bowl first. Kolkata Knight Riders, who came out to bat, had a very bad start and lost the wickets of both their openers at a score of just two runs. Sunil Narine (0) and Quinton de Kock (1) were out after scoring runs.

Trent Bolt bowled Sunil Narine. Deepak Chahar made de Kock his victim. After this, in the fourth over, Ashwini Kumar made captain Ajinkya Rahane (11) his first victim. Chahar took his second wicket by dismissing Venkatesh Iyer (3). Hardik Pandya dismissed Angkrish Raghuvanshi (26), who was trying to settle down.

After this, Ashwini Kumar broke the back of Kolkata by dismissing Rinku Singh (17), Manish Pandey (19) and Andre Russell (5). Kolkata's ninth wicket fell in the form of Harshit Rana (4) in the 15th over. Mitchell Santner dismissed Ramandeep Singh (22) in 12 balls and wrapped up Kolkata's innings at a score of 116 runs in 16.2 overs. For Mumbai Indians, Ashwini Kumar took four wickets for 24 runs in three overs. Deepak Chahar took two wickets. Trent Boult, Hardik Pandya, Vignesh Puthur, and Mitchell Santner took one wicket each.