In place of Rituraj Gaikwad, ‘Mumbaikar’s CSK team entry, this was the record of runs in Ranji Trophy ..

IPL 2025: Chennai Super Kings have started well in the 18th season of IPL 2025. He has made a great debut of IPL 2025 by defeating Mumbai Indians. However, after this the Chennai team’s performance continued to fall. He has lost 5 consecutive matches. Meanwhile, Chennai captain Ruturaj Gaikwad has been ruled out of this season due to injury. Now the news has come out that the Chennai team will include a 17 -year -old batsman from Mumbai in place of Rituraj.

According to a source close to the CSK team management, batsman Ayush Mhatre will join the Chennai Super Kings team in a few days. This decision was taken on Saturday night. According to Cricbuzz, Ayush has been immediately asked to join Chennai Super Kings. But he is likely to join the Chennai team captained by MS Dhoni in two days. No team bought Mhatre in the mega auction. Now he will join the team at a base price of Rs 30 lakh.

Tested a few days ago ..

Ayush Mhatre was recently called for the trial by the Chennai Super Kings team. Apart from Mhatre, Urvil Patel from Gujarat and Salman Nizar from Uttar Pradesh were also called. But Ayush has been successful in influencing Mhatre management. Prithvi Shaw’s name was also in discussion after Rituraj Gaikwad was injured. However, Chennai Super Kings did not show interest in Shaw and the management decided to include Ayush Mhatre in the team.

Who is Ayush Mhatre?

Ayush Mhatre has become the fourth highest run -scorer for Mumbai in this Ranji Trophy season. Mhatre has scored 471 runs in 8 matches with the help of 2 centuries. Apart from this, Mhatre scored a century against Saurashtra in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. He was the highest run -scorer for Mumbai in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Mhatre scored 458 runs in the Vijay Hazare Trophy at an average of 64.42.

Rituraj out of IPL 2025 due to injury

Chennai Super Kings captain Rituraj has been ruled out of the remaining matches of IPL 2025 due to elbow injury on Thursday (April 10). He was injured while playing for CSK against Rajasthan Royals in Guwahati on 30 March. In his absence, MS Dhoni has commanded the Chennai Super Kings.