The morning after the IPL 2025 final, Musheer Khan struck with his third ball in the T20 Mumbai league.
It was close to midnight on June 3 when Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Punjab Kings in Ahmedabad to lift the IPL trophy for the first time. The presentations went on to the early hours of June 4.
Musheer, part of the Punjab squad, had played only once in the league – in the Qualifier 1 against RCB on May 29. Coming on as an Impact Player for Prabhsimran Singh, he fell for a duck, but dismissed Mayank Agarwal as RCB chased down a target of 102 in 10 overs. However, he did not play in the final.
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Musheer Khan strikes in his first over of T20 Mumbai 2025
On the morning after the final, however, Musheer was at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, fielding for ARCS Andheri against the SoBo Mumbai Falcons in the T20 Mumbai League.
Match 1, ARCS Andheri vs SoBo Mumbai Falcons
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Opening the batting for SoBo was Angkrish Raghuvanshi, a regular for the Kolkata Knight Riders, and the Singapore-born Ishan Mulchandani. After two overs, bowled by Badrey Alam and Aishwary Surve, SoBo reached 17-0.
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Musheer came to bowl the third over. After Raghuvanshi took a single off the first ball, Mulchandani hit the next ball for six. Musheer followed this with a wide, before clean bowling Mulchandani (8 in 5 balls, one six) with the next ball.
Musheer conceded a single across the next three balls. Rain stopped play immediately after his over. There has been no cricket since then. At the time of writing, SoBo were 26-1 after three overs with Raghuvanshi (15 in 11 balls, two fours) and Amogh Bhatkal (1 in 2) at the crease.
