Ayush Mhatre was spitting fire, Vaibhav Arora was hit by 3 batsmen, then KKR team players took the ball in the same over – Ayush Mhatre first hit 3 consecutive fours on Vaibhav Arora, then the KKR bowler dismissed him in the same over of IPL 2026.

The 22nd match of IPL 2026 is being played between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders. Ayush Mhatre got out after playing a stormy innings in this college. Here Vaibhan Arora is out.

Ayush Mhatre-Vaibhav Arora
City: The 22nd match of the Indian Premier League 2026 is being played between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders today i.e. on 13th April at the MA Dragon Stadium in Chennai. In this match, Kolkata Knight Riders captain Ajinkya Bachchan was the first to decide on task ball. In such a situation, Chennai had made a fast start by batting first against KKR.

After the dismissal of Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad, young Ayush Mhatre, who was batting at number three, came in. He impressed the public a lot with his decoding batting.

Ayush scored runs at a strike rate of more than 200

CSK’s young batsman Ayush kept the runs at a strike rate of over 200 for Kolkata Knight Riders against Mhatre. He played stormy innings of 2 runs in 17 balls and 38 runs in 6 balls. His strike rate was 223.53.

Vaibhav Ko-Constant 3rd shelf, again out on the last ball of the over.

Fast bowler Vaibhav Arora was bowling the sixth over of Chennai Super Kings’ innings. Ayush Mhatre was on strike from the first ball of his over. Ayush Mhatre bowled down three consecutive balls. After this Vaibhav Arora made a brilliant comeback.

Ayush Mhatre failed to score any runs on two consecutive balls. After this, Ayush Mhatre wanted to hit a pull lock six on the last ball of the over. But he could not give time to the ball and Ramandeep Singh easily caught Ayush at deep midwicket. This is how Ayush Mhatre was out on the last ball of the powerplay.

Game playing 11 for both teams

Chennai Super Kings: Sanju Samson (wk), Sejan Gaikwad (captain), Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brewis, Shivam Joy, Sarfaraz Khan, Jamie Overton, Ansal Kamboj, Noor Ahmed, Khaleel Ahmed and Gurjapaneet Singh.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Left (Captain), Angrakesh Raghuvanshi (WK), Cameron Green, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Ramandeep Singh, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Varun Akhtar, Karthik Clarke and Vaibhav Arora.

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