A wicket of the first ball in the Indian Premier League

A wicket of the first ball in the Indian Premier League

Ashwani Kumar of Mumbai wrote himself into the record books as the tenth bowler to capture a wicket of the first ball in the history of the Indian Premier League

NoBowlerBatsmanRunsTeamOppositionVenueDateYear
1I SharmaR Dravid02Kolkata   BangaloreBangalore18.04.082008
2W MotaSK Raina02PunjabChennaiChennai19.04.082008
3SM HarwoodA Bilakhia01RajasthanDeccanP Elizabeth02.05.092009
4A SinghS Sohal00RajasthanPunjabDurban09.05.092009
5CS LangeveldtR Quiney01Kolkata   RajasthanDurban20.05.092009
6Ali MurtazaNV Ojha12MumbaiRajasthanBrabourne13.03.102010
7TP SudhindhraF du Plessis39DeccanChennaiVizag07.04.122012
8AC JosephDA Warner15MumbaiSunrisersHyderabad06.04.192019
9M PathiranaShubman Gill18ChennaiTitansWankhede15.05.222022
10Ashwani KumarAM Rahane11MumbaiKolkata   Wankhede31.03.252025

He also became the sixth Indian bowler to perform such a feat in the history of the Indian Premier League

NoBowlerBatsmanRunsTeamOppositionVenueDateYear
1I SharmaR Dravid02Kolkata   BangaloreBangalore18.04.082008
2W MotaSK Raina02PunjabChennaiChennai19.04.082008
3A SinghS Sohal00RajasthanPunjabDurban09.05.092009
4Ali MurtazaNV Ojha12MumbaiRajasthanBrabourne13.03.102010
5TP SudhindhraF du Plessis39DeccanChennaiVizag07.04.122012
6Ashwani KumarAM Rahane11MumbaiKolkata   Wankhede31.03.252025

He also became the third Mumbai bowler to perform such a feat in the history of the Indian Premier League

NoBowlerBatsmanRunsTeamOppositionVenueDateYear
1Ali MurtazaNV Ojha12MumbaiRajasthanBrabourne13.03.102010
2AC JosephDA Warner15MumbaiSunrisersHyderabad06.04.192019
3Ashwani KumarAM Rahane11MumbaiKolkata   Wankhede31.03.252025
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