Sanju Samson again played match winning inning for CSK, Chennai made a strong comeback in IPL 2026, now defeated Delhi by 8 wickets

DC vs CSK: Chennai Super Kings, one of the most popular teams of the Indian Premier League, had a bad start to this season, but now Chennai Super Kings has made a great comeback in the middle of IPL 2026. Chennai has defeated Delhi Capitals by 7 wickets. This is Delhi’s fourth win in the last 6 matches. Chennai Super Kings achieved the target of 156 runs given by Delhi Capitals with 15 balls remaining by losing 2 wickets. Sanju Samson played the match winning inning of 87 not out.

CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad was out early.

Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad and Sanju Samson started the innings of Chennai Super Kings to chase the target of 156 runs given by Delhi Capitals. Chennai had a good start, but captain Ruturaj Gaikwad lost his wicket early. Lungi Ngidi showed him the way to the pavilion. Gaikwad faced 13 balls and could score only 6 runs.

Sanju Samson and Karthik Sharma made a partnership of 114 runs and gave victory to CSK.

After this, Urvil Patel was out after playing a short, but fast innings. He was promoted by Akshar Patel. Urvil Patel played an inning of 17 runs in 9 balls, which included 2 sixes. After this, Sanju Samson and Karthik Sharma made a brilliant partnership of 114 runs for the third wicket and gave Chennai Super Kings a brilliant 8 wicket victory.

𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗲

A dominant outing for @ChennaiIPL in Delhi to chase down the 🎯 with 1️⃣5️⃣ deliveries to spare 👏🔥

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Moving step by step closer to the W! 🎯

Sanju Samson 🤝 Kartik Sharma 💛

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Sanju Samson becomes playoff man of the match

Sanju Samson played a match-winning inning of 87 runs unbeaten on 52 balls. During this period, 7 fours and 6 sixes came from his bat. Sanju received the Player of the Match award for this brilliant performance. Whereas Karthik Sharma scored unbeaten 41 runs on 31 balls. He hit 4 fours and 2 sixes. In this way, both these players played brilliant innings and gave a one-sided victory to Chennai Super Kings.

Anchored. Delivered. Conquered

A phenomenal 87* (52) secures the Player of the Match for Sanju Samson 💛

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Delhi Capitals’ batting was like this

Delhi Capitals won the toss and batted first and scored 155 runs for 7 wickets. Half of the Delhi Capitals team had returned to the pavilion with a score of 69 runs. After this, Stubbs, Sameer Rizvi and Ashutosh Sharma took the score of Delhi Capitals to 155. Sameer Rizvi played the highest innings of 40 unbeaten runs in 24 balls. Tristan Stubbs scored 38 runs on 31 balls. While Ashutosh Sharma scored 14 runs on 5 balls. Apart from this, Pathum Nissanka scored 19 runs, Nitish Reddy scored 15 runs, Karun Nair scored 13 runs and KL Rahul scored 12 runs. Noor Ahmed took 2 wickets for Chennai Super Kings. Jamie Overton, Akil Hussain, Noor Ahmed, Mukesh Chaudhary and Gurjapneet Singh got 1 success each.

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