Mumbai: In a development that gives rise to speculation that it can be included in the final-minute by Chennai Super Kings for IPL 2025, 17-year-old opener from Mumbai Ayush The trial at Chepuk in Chennai was called by the franchise on Thursday. Matre, who was unusable in the IPL mega auction last November in Jeddah, can only come in Chennai Super Kings As a replacement player in terms of any injury/unavailability of a player.
Matre went from Rajkot to Chennai, where currently for under -19 cricketers at the Zonal Camp of BCCI’s National Cricket Academy.
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“Yes, we have called him for testing. He has impressed our talent scouts,” CSK MD and CEO Kasi Vishwanathan told TOI. Asked if there were any injuries in the CSK camp, he said, “No, if there is any need, we will do so. We are not picking up anyone, this is just a test.”
CSK asked Mhatre to report for the trial in November last year, just before the IPL auction.
The promising Youngster enjoyed a good debut season for Mumbai in 2024-25, scoring 458 runs in seven matches, 65.42, two hundreds and a fifty in Vijay Hazare Trophy, and 471 runs in eight matches @ 33.64 with two centuries and with a fifty, with a fifty, with a fifty of 176.
The teenage batsman has clearly affected the talent scouts of CSK’s top management and franchise.
With one win and two defeats in three matches, CSK is ranked seventh on the IPL points table.
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