MUMBAI: Five-time champions Chennai Super Kings, wracked by injuries during their IPL 2026 campaign, have called up Mumbai’s young batting all-rounder Ayush Vartak for mid-season trials. “Yes, Ayush was summoned to the court on Tuesday. He will reach Chennai on Monday evening,” a source following the development told TOI.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SIGN UP NOW!CSK have suffered some serious injuries this season as Mumbai opener Ayush Mhatre (hamstring) and Rajasthan pacer Khaleel Ahmed (quadricep) have been ruled out of IPL 2026 due to serious injuries.
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Stephen Fleming on CSK bat, hard pitch and extra bounceWith six points from eight games, ČSK is in sixth place in the table.The 21-year-old Vartak, who hails from Vasai and plays for Parsee Gymkhana in local cricket in Mumbai, captained the Mumbai Under-23 team in the first phase of the Col CK Nayudu Trophy (under-23 players) last season.Vartak has yet to represent Mumbai’s senior team, but has been part of the senior probabilities for the past couple of seasons. The attacking young Turk scored 363 runs in six innings in the Men’s State A Trophy 2025, a tally that included as many as 26 sixes (second highest in India after Mukul Choudhary). He scored: 132, 92*, 75 and was the top run-getter in the Mumbai tournament. In the Col CK Nayudu Trophy 2024-25, he scored 770 runs in nine matches – the most for Mumbai – with scores of 192, 102, 105, 77, 59 and 54.He recently won the MCA U-23 Outstanding Performance Award for the 2024 season.
