By Admin 
T20 Mumbai League 2025: In the first semi -final match of T20 Mumbai League 2025, the aging experience overshadowed youth. In the match played on 10 June 2025 at the Wankhede Stadium, 38 -year -old fast bowler Rohan Raje took his team Mumbai South Central Maratha Royals to the finals. Thanks to his sharp bowling, the team defeated Eagle police station strikers by 8 wickets and dropped them out of the final race.
Rohan Raje sent half the team with 5 wickets
After winning the toss, the Eagle Police Striker team came out to bat first and started very poorly. The batsmen of the team were not seen in the rhythm. Rohan Raje kept pressure on the opposition team in his bowling from the beginning. He took 5 wickets for 40 runs in 4 overs of his spell. This was the first five wicket hall of this season and the fourth of the history of T20 Mumbai League.
Raje ensured his team’s victory, taking important wickets like Vinay Kunwar, and Shashank Atarde, who was playing for 41 runs, Sairaj Patil of police station strikers. With his brilliant bowling, Rohan broke the back of the batting order of the police station strikers. Due to this performance of the batsmen, the team of Eagle police station could only manage 131 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs.
The start of Maratha Royals, which came out on the ground to chase the target of 132 runs, was also slow. In the very first over, Sahil Jadhav returned to Sairaj Patil’s Inswinger, but captain Siddhesh Lad took responsibility on his shoulders and handled an unbeaten innings of 74 runs in 52 balls while handling the innings, which included 9 fours and 1 six.
His captaincy innings gave Maratha Royals to 134 runs for 2 wickets in 17.5 overs to get the final ticket. The team won the match by 8 wickets with 13 balls remaining.
Sachin was also surprised in the nets with his bowling
This performance of 38 -year -old Rohan Raje is an example of his experience and passion. He has also caught the attention of Rohan Raje big veterans with the brilliant performance of his bowling earlier. In the first match of this season, which is due to rain 9 overs were reduced, he played a smokeless innings of 48 runs in 21 balls and also took 1 wicket for 9 runs, defending 18 runs in the final over.
Rohan Raje has been a part of the team of Mumbai Indians in the IPL in the year 2008-09. His performance also caught the attention of a legendary player like Sachin Tendulkar on the nets, where he dodged Sachin with his slow balls. However, Raje has not received much opportunities to play much for Mumbai.
2008 Raje, who made his debut in List A, so far in his career 1 First class5 List a, And 30 Tea20 Have played matches.