Mumbai, Oct. 14 -- In a major setback to the Mumbai side, their promising young opening batter Ayush Mhatre sustained a Grade 4 tear in his right hamstring, as Mumbai went on to win their Ranji Trophy opener against Chandigarh at the Wankhede Stadium. Mhatre suffered the injury while running between the wickets during his 48-run knock in the first innings. He didn't come out to field during Chandigarh's innings and the scans revealed a Grade 4 tear. He is likely to miss the first half of the Ranji season. "It seems that he will not be with the team for some time now. The way he was limping in the match, it does not look like he would be available for the second or the third match," Mumbai captain Siddhesh Lad said after the win on Tuesday. "It happened while running (between the wickets). We had two or three simulations (matches) and club games. He was looking fine, but he felt something in his hamstring while taking a second run," Lad added. It will be a tough blow for Mhatre, who was playing his first match after a long recovery from a left hamstring injury sustained in April while playing for Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2026. The 19-year-old spent three months at the BCCI's Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru undergoing treatment and rehabilitation. "He looked very sad. He worked really hard in the off season. He was doing rehab with me only at BKC and he would come all the way from Virar and do his rehab and go back. It happens, it is a part of the game," said Lad. For their second Ranji Trophy match against Himachal Pradesh from October 18-21, Mumbai will be without both their openers as Yashasvi Jaiswal will travel with the India A side for the New Zealand tour. Spinners Shams Mukani and Tanush Kotian shared three wickets each to bundle out Chandigarh for 196 in their second innings and help Mumbai to a massive innings and 155-run victory against Chandigarh. Tushar Deshpande who took a fifer in the second innings, including a hat-trick, picked up two more in the second to finish with a match haul of seven. Brief scores: Mumbai 429 beat Chandigarh 78 & 196 (Arjun Azad 62, Shivam Bhambri 44; Shams Mulani 3/69, Tanush Kotian 3/30)....