The third match of the IPL 2025 season has the heavyweights Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Mumbai Indians (MI) clashing in Chennai on March 23, 2025. CSK won the toss and chose to bowl first at their home ground.
Noor Ahmad, Rachin Ravindra, Nathan Ellis, and Noor Ahmad were CSK’s 4 overseas players, while MI chose Ryan Rickelton, Will Jacks, Trent Boult, and Mitchell Santner.
Coming into the game, much was expected from Rohit Sharma, former MI captain and ICC Champions Trophy 2025-winning Indian captain. MI wanted to put to sleep the demons of the IPL 2024 last-place finish.
And they wanted Rohit Sharma to give them a huge start, as he opened the innings with Ryan Rickelton. However, Khaleel Ahmed kept him quiet for the first three balls and on the fourth ball, got his wicket for a duck.
The ball came into his pads and as Rohit tried to play his trademark flick shot, he miscued it and gave an easy catch to Shivam Dube at mid-wicket.
With this, Rohit Sharma registered his 18th duck in the IPL. He leveled the record held by Glenn Maxwell and Dinesh Karthik to have joint most ducks to his name in IPL history.
They are followed by Sunil Narine and Piyush Chawla with 16 ducks, and Rashid Khan and Mandeep Singh with 15 ducks each.
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