Vignesh Puthur: How to join Mumbai Indians despite asthma?

Delhi: In the Indian Premier League (IPL 2025), a new star emerged in the match between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Mumbai Indians (Mi) – Vignesh PuthurThis young spinner of Mi caught everyone’s attention from his performance against CSK. In the middle overs, he took three important wickets and put the Chennai team in trouble. After the match, former Siyeske and Indian captain MS Dhoni also encouraged him by patting him on the back. Puthur’s coach also talked about him and told how he used to play Gautam Gambhir’s T-shirt.

‘Academy came wearing Gautam Gambhir’s jersey’

Vignesh’s childhood coach CG Vijayakumar has been watching him since he came to the academy wearing a Jersey of Kolkata Knight Riders at the age of 10, on which Gautam Gambhir’s name was written.

In an interview given to the Indian Express, Vijaykumar said, “When a child comes to our academy, we try to try all the batting, wicketkeeping, fast bowling and spin. But, with Vignesh, the talk with Vignesh only wrote a wrist spin, because his wrist had flexibility and a natural action. Rist spin was a natural action. It was an art and firstly it was a full potential for it. What did he do in Chennai. “

Due to his brilliant performance, Vignesh became part of Kerala’s under-age group teams, although the senior team could not make it to the team. Despite this, Mumbai Indians expressed confidence in them and bought them in auction.

‘Scouts of Mumbai Indians recognizes capacity’

Vijayakumar says about this, “If I honestly, his performance at the under-23 level was not special, so he was not selected in the Kerala team. He was struggling, but I was confident that it was just a matter of form. I had sent his video to senior coach Balachandran and he did not see any shortage in it. Recognized. “

At the age of 15, Vignesh Jolie started playing for the first team of Rovers, which was led by former Kerala player Shabin Pasha. Pasha said, “He had a little asthma problem, so that he was not in his best performance in KCL. But the scouts of Mumbai Indians recognized his specialty and when he went for the trial, we were confident that he would be bought in auction because he had all the features of successful in T20 cricket.”

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