Hit-wickets are a rarity in cricket and those happen when a batter breaks their own wickets with their bat or their body. It is one of the most unfortunate ways for a batter to get dismissed and it is one of the very few dismissals for which only and only the batter is responsible and no one else.

In Match 41 of IPL 2025 between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, SRH batter Abhinav Manohar lost his wicket as he was dismissed hit-wicket of the bowling of Trent Boult. During the final over of the SRH innings, Maonhar went so deep in his crease anticipating the yorker from Boult that he smashed the stumps while trying to play a shot.

Initially, it seemed that the full delivery from Boult had clean bowled Manohar but on replays it was confirmed that it was Manohar's bat hitting the stumps instead of the ball and hence he was deemed to be hit wicket.

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• With this dismissal, Abinav Manohar becomes the 16th batter to enter himself into the list of batters who have been dismissed in this way in the history of IPL.


• Mushavir Khote was the first-ever batter to be out hit wicket in the IPL back in the first season in 2008 playing for Mumbai Indians 


• Ayush Badoni, two years ago in 2023, was the last batter to make this list of which now Manohar is the latest entrant. 


• This instance also takes SRH's tally up to 5 and makes them the team with most hit-wickets


• Also this is the fifth instance of a batter being hit-wicket against Mumbai Indians which is also the most against any team in IPL

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