On Monday, Mumbai Indians (Mi Vs KKR) registered their first win of the 18th season of the Indian Premier League against Kolkata Knight Riders. After losing two matches back to back, Hardik Pandya & Company beat Kolkata at his home and hoisted the victorious glory by 8 wickets. The KKR team's innings came out for 116 runs to bat first. In response, Mi (Mi Vs KKR) hit 121 runs in 12.5 overs on the scoreboard.

Kolkata's innings limited to 116 runs

The 12th match of IPL 2025 was played at Mumbai's Wankhede Cricket Stadium, in which Mumbai Indians faced Kolkata Knight Riders (Mi Vs KKR). After winning the toss, captain Hardik Pandya invited KKR to bat first. On the fourth ball of the innings, the team lost its first wicket. Young bowler Ashwini Kumar gave Sunil Naren's catch to Mumbai off Deepak Chahar's first success. With this, the collapse of Kolkata's wickets also started. No batsman could stay at the crease for a long time.

Ashwini Kumar caused havoc

Mumbai Indians debutant Ashwin Kumar took four wickets in three overs, wreaking havoc on the Kolkata Knight Riders batsmen. Ajinkya Rahane (11), Rinku Singh (17), Manish Pandey (19) and Andre Russell (5) were named after him. With this, he became the first Indian bowler to take four wickets in an IPL debut match. Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored the highest 16 runs for Kolkata. Ramandeep Singh contributed 22 runs. Apart from these, no batsman could touch the 20 -run figure. Deepak Chahar took two wickets for MI. Hardik Pandya, Trent Bolt, Vignesh Puthur and Mitchell Santor took one wicket each.

Mumbai recorded first win

Mumbai Indians landed 121 runs in 12.5 overs to get a target of 117 runs and won by 8 wickets. Ryan Ricelton played a brilliant start to the team, playing a stormy half -century innings. During this, he shared a 46 -run partnership with former captain Rohit Sharma. However, in 5.2 overs, Andre Russell dismissed the Hitman and ended the partnership. Will Jacks scored 16 runs in 17 balls. Suryakumar Yadav, who landed at number four, took 27* runs in 9 balls at a strike rate of 300 and brought Mumbai to the threshold of victory. Ryan Ricelton returned unbeaten after scoring 62 runs.

Hardik Pandya's bet: Hardik Pandya's biggest bet was to include Ashwini Kumar in the playing XI against Kolkata Knight Riders. The 23 -year -old bowler wreaked havoc on the batsmen of the opposition team and made it difficult for him to score runs.