Lucknow Super Giants’ speedster Mohsin Khan produced a tidy early breakthrough in the Rajasthan Royals innings, bowling what became the first maiden over ever faced by RR opener Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in IPL cricket. The over ended with Sooryavanshi departing for 8 runs off 11 deliveries, but the bigger talking point was the manner of it: the 15-year-old has built a reputation as an exceptionally aggressive batter, carrying a staggering strike rate of 213 from his 14-match IPL run so far. In this spell, Mohsin showed the discipline to dry up scoring options while Sooryavanshi—normally so intent on big shots—was repeatedly forced into cautious choices.
In the 3.1 delivery, Mohsin sent down a back-of-a-length ball around the off side. Sooryavanshi punched it from the back foot toward backward point, but it was a dot ball. The pattern continued in 3.2, with the batter failing to get his front foot across in time as he defended to cover; the ball arrived on the leg side and again yielded no run. By 3.3, Sooryavanshi played with more restraint, driving a fullish length delivery from off stump to midwicket, only to come away empty-handed.
Mohsin then mixed things up in 3.4 with a fuller, skidding slot ball on leg stump. Sooryavanshi punched it straight down the pitch, but there was no sideways movement and the over remained scoreless. The pressure nearly told in 3.5 when the ball came back off the bat in a way that looked like it might have found the edge. Sooryavanshi stayed planted as he tried to guide it toward third; the delivery swung away slightly off a length toward fifth stump, and the chance went begging—another dot.
Then came the dismissal in 3.6. The batter went for his first genuine big moment of the over, attempting the long hit from the front foot. The ball—sent down at around 142 km/h—rose after striking the outer half of the bat, giving the infield a chance to converge. Two fielders raced back from cover, and Rathi tracked it well, taking a sharp catch around his chest as Mohsin and Lucknow celebrated. It wasn’t Sooryavanshi’s day, and the over had delivered exactly what Mohsin’s control promised: a maiden and a wicket.
