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Rohit Sharma with young MI pacer Satyanarayana Raju (File Photo: Screengrab/X/Star Sports ) Photograph: (Screengrab/X/Star Sports )
In what seems to be a heartfelt gesture, former MI skipper and batting stalwart, Rohit Sharma hugged and encouraged the young pacer Satyanarayana Raju before the game against Gujarat Titans. The talented pacer was picked by the five-time champions, Mumbai Indians for an amount of INR 30 lakhs during the IPL 2025 mega auction.
The 25-year-old made his IPL debut for MI in their campaign opener against CSK; Raju also scalped his first wicket in the ongoing game against the Gujarat Titans.
The heartfelt video of Rohit Sharma hugging and making Satyanarayana Raju feel special in the camp also started making rounds on social media as soon as it was shared by a user on X (formerly Twitter).
Here’s the video:
Rohit encouraging our telugu player Satyanarayana raju 🥹💙pic.twitter.com/spGO1NnREt
— Teja Reddy (@Tejareddy045) March 29, 2025
Speaking of the current action of the 10th IPL 2025 game between GT and MI, the visitors are currently chasing the target of 197 runs; at the time of filling this, Mumbai Indians had scored 69 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in 8 overs, having Tilak Varma and Suryakumar Yadav there in the middle at the individual scores of 30 and 19 runs, respectively.
Star GT pacer Mohammed Siraj has scalped 2 wickets, dismissing both the MI openers, Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickleton.
Earlier in the first innings, the Gujarat Titans posted a big total of 196 runs for losing 8 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Star in-form opener Sai Sudharsan played a decisive half-century knock, scoring 63 runs off just 41 balls, with 4 fours and two sixes. Besides him, skipper Shubman Gill also scored 38 runs off 27 balls, with 4 fours and a six, followed by wicketkeeper-batter Jos Buttler’s 39 runs off just 24 balls, with five fours and a six.
GT skipper and star all-rounder Hardik Pandya scalped 2 wickets for MI in the first innings, alongside a wicket each bagged by Trent Boult, Deepak Chahar, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, and Satyanarayana Raju.