The start of the IPL 2026 season for Chennai Super Kings was bad even before they took the field and when the team came to play its first match, the situation was very bad there too. In their first match of this season, the batsmen of Chennai Super Kings were terrorized by the fast bowlers of Rajasthan Royals. In the absence of MS Dhoni and Dewald Brevis, the rest of the team’s batsmen also failed miserably. But in this too, this match was more useless for the team’s young batsman Ayush Mhatre because he was out of the entire match after playing just one ball.
In the third match of IPL 2026 on Monday 30 March in Guwahati. Rajasthan and Chennai There was a collision. In this match, Rajasthan chose bowling first and this decision of the new captain of the team Riyan Parag proved to be absolutely right. This was made right by their pair of foreign fast bowlers. While Nandre Berger dismissed Sanju Samson, Joffra Archer sent team captain Ruturaj Gaikwad back to the pavilion in the third over itself.
Mhatre out after playing just 1 ball
After a poor start, CSK had hopes from their young star Ayush Mhatre, under whose captaincy India had won the Under-19 World Cup in February itself. Ayush’s friend Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who is part of Rajasthan Royals, was also playing in the same match. However, before Vaibhav showed his magic, all eyes were on Mhatre. Last season itself, Mhatre made his debut for Chennai Super Kings and impressed with his performance. But the beginning of the new season was not good for him. Nandre Berger dismissed this young batsman in the fourth over. Mhatre could not even open his account and returned to the pavilion after playing just one ball.
Mhatre’s match ended there
But what happened next ended the match for Mhatre. In fact, as soon as Ayush Mhatre was out, Chennai lost 3 wickets for just 19 runs. In such a situation, CSK had to change its strategy and field a batsman as an impact player. For this the team chose Sarfaraz Khan and replaced him with Ayush Mhatre. Now according to the rules of Impact Player, the player who is dropped from the playing-11 is not able to play any role in the match again. In such a situation, Mhatre was out of the match with this substitution.