MI pacer Ashwani Kumar has become 10th cricketer to take first-ball wicket on his IPL debut. Ishant Sharma was the first bowler to achieve the feat, dismissing Rahul Dravid in 2008. The others include Wilkin Mota (2008), Shane Harwood (2009), Amit Singh (2009), Charl Langeveldt (2009), Ali Murtaza (2010), TP Sudhindra (2012), Alzarri Joseph (2019) and Matheesha Pathirana (2022).