Ishan Kishan’s dismissal in the match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians in IPL 2025 sent shock waves. The events transpired in the third over of the innings of Sunrisers Hyderabad. Kishan had attempted to pull Deepak Chahar, missed it, and Ryan Rickelton accepted it. While the others were going about their business, Kishan surprised all by beginning to walk back to the dugout, although the Mumbai Indians’ players had not appealed for his wicket.
At that moment, the wide signal was barely underway from on-field umpire Vinod Seshan, yet upon Kishan departing, he promptly turned away from it and called Out. This generated many confused faces, for even a replay showed there was clearly no edge off his bat, so how was Kishan out?
This seems to pose an interesting question: Shouldn’t the umpire have intervened and informed Kishan about still being in play? The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Law 31.7 states, If he considers that a batsman has left the wicket under a misunderstanding that he is out, then the umpire will intervene. If this is the case, he will call dead ball to prevent any further action of the fielding side and reinstate the batsman. It also mentions that the batsman is free to be recalled until the next delivery is bowled, with the exception of the last wicket of that innings.
The umpire then proceeded likely on Kishan’s demeanor and his own observations made in the moment to maintain the decision against the batter.
From that controversy onward, however, the Mumbai Indians were already in good form. Rohit Sharma made his second successive half-century and added a 53-run partnership with Suryakumar Yadav, who remained not out on 40, to help Mumbai win convincingly by seven wickets with their fourth win in succession this IPL season.
The target was pretty much modestly set at 143 runs, thanks to Heinrich Klaasen’s exemplary 71 off 44 balls and his 99-run partnership with Abhinav Manohar, who scored 43 runs in 37 balls. Rohit, in great form, smashed 70 runs off just 46 balls or above two runs an over, thus finishing the game in merely 15.4 overs, hastily ending the woes besetting the home team.
Earlier, relentless bowling by Mumbai bowlers Deepak Chahar and Trent Boult rattled the Sunrisers at the onset. Chahar claimed 2 wickets for 12 runs while Boult mopped up 4 for 26 to leave SRH in dire straits 13 for 4 at the end of the fifth over. However, to the relief of the SRH fans, Klaasen came to the rescue and single-handedly stabilized their innings with a splendid half-century.
