Ashwani Kumar's sensational performance on his 'debut' led Mumbai Indians to their first win of the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket season. Mumbai defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 8 wickets on Monday under the influence of Ashwani's 4 wickets.

Five-time champions Mumbai were defeated in their first two matches. But Ashwani made a grand 'debut' from Mumbai, who was playing his first match at home. The 23-year-old Debrehate Simar, who hails from Punjab, was dismissed by Kolkata captain Ajinkya Rahane in his first ball. He is the first Indian bowler to take a wicket in the first ball of his first game of IPL. 

He then dismissed Rinku Singh and bowled Manish Pandey and Andre Russell. Ashwani is also the first Indian bowler to take 4 wickets in his first game in IPL. On the other 5 occasions, Yokha's success was all in the name of foreign bowlers. Kolkata, who were invited to bat after losing the toss in Ashwani's attempt, were bowled out for 116 runs in 16.2 overs. 

player of the match Ashwani took 4 wickets with 24 runs in 3 overs. Deepak Chahar spent 19 runs in 2 overs and Trent Boult, captain Hardik Pandya, Vignesh Puthur and Mitchell Santner took 1 wicket each. Ankrish Raghuvanshi from Kolkata scored 26 runs off 16 balls with 3 fours and 1 six.

Ramandeep Singh scored 22 runs with 1 four and 2 sixes off 12 balls. He was the last player to get out. In the first over, Boult bowled Sunil Narine for a wicket. Quinton de Kock 1, Rahane 11, Banktes Air 3, Rinku 17, Pandey 19, Russell 5 and Harshit Rana were dismissed for 4 runs. 

Mumbai scored 121 runs in 12.5 overs at Wangkhade. Rohit Sharma disappointed once again. He could only score 12 runs off 13 balls. Will Jacks was also dismissed for 16 runs. Ryan Rickelton remained unbeaten on 62 and Suryakumar Yadav on 27 runs. Opener Rickelton hit 4 fours and 5 sixes in 41 balls and Suryakumar hit 3 fours and 2 sixes in 9 balls.