Sports Desk: The third match of this season will be played between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2025. In this match, both teams are quite ready. Especially the team of Mumbai Indians is also giving a chance to some new players. In this episode, Mumbai has included Satyanarayana Raju in his playing XI in the first match of this year. This was his IPL debut. Earlier, he used to play in domestic cricket.

Satyanarayana Raju's name came into the discussion recently. Actually, he impressed everyone with his bowling in Andhra Pradesh Premier League 2024. After which Raju became the subject of discussion everywhere. After this, he got an eye on the IPL buyers. In this series, in IPL 2025, Mumbai Indians bought Raju for Rs 30 lakh.

Who is Satyanarayana?

Satyanarayana Raju was born on 10 July 1999. He is primarily right -handed medical fast bowler. He used to play for the team of Rayalaseema Kings of Andhra Pradesh some time ago. At one time he took 3 wickets against Rajasthan during the Ranji Trophy, playing for Andhra.

If we talk about his T20 career, then here he has taken 7 wickets at an average of 8.23. Earlier, he took 8 wickets in 7 matches of Andra Premier League from a brilliant economy of 6.15. Only after this he came into the discussion. In this league, his team reached close to the Royalim Kings title due to Raju. In such a situation, the team of Mumbai Indians has high expectations from this young player in this year's IPL. Now it has to be seen whether Raju is able to live up to these expectations of Mumbai or not.

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Mumbai's playing XI against Chennai Super Kings

Rohit Sharma, Ryan Recelton (wicketkeeper), Will Jacks, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Tilak Verma, Naman Dhir, Robin Minj, Michelle TERAN, Deepak Chahar, Trent Bolt, Satyanarayan Raju.