{"id":602067,"date":"2026-04-12T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602067\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:51:08","slug":"i-wasnt-really-ayush-mhatre-breaks-silence-on-being-retired-out-in-csk-innings-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602067\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I wasn\u2019t really &#8230;&#8217;: Ayush Mhatre breaks silence on being retired out in CSK innings | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/mmn-94.jpg\" alt=\"'I wasn\u2019t really ...': Ayush Mhatre breaks silence on being retired out in CSK innings\" title=\" Ayush Mhatre\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/chennai-super-kings\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chennai Super Kings<\/a> made a tactical decision to retire out Ayush Mhatre during their innings against Delhi Capitals in IPL 2026 on Saturday.The decision came in the 18th over with CSK at 175\/2, when the scoring rate had slowed after a steady middle phase.Mhatre, who scored 59 off 36 balls, was finding it difficult to accelerate against spells from Lungi Ngidi and T Natarajan. With runs needed in the final overs, the team brought in <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/player-profile\/shivam-dube\/66044\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shivam Dube<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p> Watch<\/p>\n<p>  How Justin Langer\u2019s belief helped Mukul Choudhary shine \u201cThere was nothing much. I was batting and the team needed some big shots. Shivam also can hit big shots. I wasn\u2019t really getting it going, so the team planned it that way. It happens in the game,&#8221; Mhatre said after the match on Star Sports.The move worked as Dube helped CSK add runs at the end and take the total to 212\/2. Mhatre had earlier added 113 runs for the second wicket with Sanju Samson after an early setback.Speaking about the stand, Samson said, \u201cVery important to have a great partnership. It never looked like he (Mhatre) was coming out of U-19 \u2014 he was so calculative. Shows the character he has.&#8221;CSK then bowled out Delhi Capitals for 189 to win by 23 runs. CSK secured their first win of the season and ended a six-match losing run at home. CSK are ninth in the standings with one win and three losses, while DC are fourth with two wins and two losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chennai Super Kings made a tactical decision to retire out Ayush Mhatre during their innings against Delhi Capitals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,77915,43215,740,31776,31775,88445,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-602067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ayush-mhatre","11":"tag-chennai-super-kings","12":"tag-cricket","13":"tag-delhi-capitals","14":"tag-ipl-2026","15":"tag-shivam-dube","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}