Left-arm spinner Noor Ahmad executed an impressive performance in his debut match for Chennai Super Kings by bagging four wickets against Mumbai Indians in Chepauk.
In CSK’s opening game of IPL 2025 which was scheduled to be played against their arch-rivals Mumbai Indians, Noor Ahmad bagged four wickets in four overs at an economy of just 4.50.
Noor Ahmad dismantled Mumbai’s middle order by dismissing Suryakumar Yadav(29), Tilak Varma(31), Robin Minz(3) and Naman Dhir(17).
Speaking of the match, Chennai Super Kings won the toss and opted to field first. Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickelton opened the innings for Mumbai Indians while Khaleel Ahmed opened the bowling attack for CSK.
In the very first over, Khaleel dismissed Rohit Sharma for a duck and made an impressive start for his new franchise. With the duck-out dismissal, Rohit Sharma joins the list of players with the most ducks in IPL.
Most ducks in the IPL
- 18 – Rohit Sharma
- 18 – Glenn Maxwell
- 18 – Dinesh Karthik
- 16 – Piyush Chawla
- 16 – Sunil Narine
Following Rohit’s dismissal, Will Jacks too got dismissed without making an impact on the scoreboard. Ashwin dismissed Will Jacks for 11 runs and opened his account in the IPL 2025 season.
Though Mumbai lost a couple of wickets at an early stage, Tilak Varma and Suryakumar Yadav with their impressive knocks pushed MI to score 52 runs at the end of the first powerplay.
The duo went on to make some crucial shots and pushed the team’s score to 82 at the end of 10 overs. Noor Ahmad in the very next over dismissed Yadav for 29 runs and broke the settled partnership.
Noor Ahmad in the 13th over bagged a couple of wickets by dismissing Robin Minz(9) and Tilak Varma(31) and loaded the pressure on the Mumbai Indian’s batting lineup.
With Deepak Chahar’s 15 balls 28 runs, Mumbai managed to score 155 runs for nine wickets loss at the end of 20 overs.
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