Delhi Capitals, chasing the target of 163 runs against Mumbai Indians, gave a big defeat to Mumbai Indians in their own home by six wickets. Mumbai bowlers looked helpless in front of Sameer Rizvi’s stormy innings. Rizvi played a very steady innings in the beginning. Scored only 9 runs in 15 balls. But later changed my gear. With his explosive innings he made the match one-sided within 10 overs.
Sameer scored a half-century in 31 balls. After the half-century, he scored 40 runs in just 20 balls. Rizvi took the team to the threshold of victory with the help of 7 fours and 7 sixes in 51 balls.
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Delhi had a target of 163 runs
The eighth match of IPL 2026 was played between Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians at the Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium in Delhi. After winning the toss, Delhi decided to bowl first. Mumbai Indians, who came to bat, had a very bad start. The team suffered two major setbacks at the score of 18 runs. Four batsmen had to return to the pavilion within 100 runs.
Thanks to captain Suryakumar Yadav’s fifty and Rohit Sharma’s 35 runs, Mumbai scored 162 runs after losing six wickets in 20 overs. North Delhi Capitals’ start to chase the target was also not special. KL Rahul had to return to the pavilion at the score of 2 runs. The second blow came in the form of Nitish Rana on the score of 7 runs.
After the initial two major setbacks, Sameer Rizvi and Pathum Nissanka put Delhi in a strong position. Both of them made an important partnership of 66 runs in 49 balls. Pathum played an innings of 44 runs in 30 balls with the help of 6 fours and one six. Mitchell became Santner’s victim on the fifth ball of the 10th over.
Sameer Rizvi dashed the hopes of Mumbai Indians by playing an explosive inning of 90 runs in 51 balls. David Miller gave an important victory to Delhi by playing an unbeaten inning of 21 runs in 18 balls.
Mumbai bowling: Shardul Thakur proved to be very expensive. He gave 41 runs in 3 overs and did not achieve any success. Corbin Bosch gave 39 runs in 3.1 overs and took one wicket. Deepak Chahar took one wicket for 20 runs in 3 overs. Mitchell Santner gave 22 runs in three overs and achieved one success. Jasprit Bumrah bowled very economically giving 21 runs in 4 overs. Mayank Markande bowled only two overs. He proved to be very expensive by giving away 20 runs.
Bad start for Mumbai, bowling was also not special
Mumbai Indians, who came to bat first, scored 162 runs at the loss of six wickets in 20 overs. Mumbai suffered two setbacks on the score of 18 runs. Wicketkeeper Ryan Rickleton had to return to the pavilion after scoring 9 runs in 11 balls. After two balls, Tilak Verma also went back on the score of zero.
Later captain Suryakumar Yadav and Rohit Sharma took over the faltering team. Rohit faced 26 balls. Contributed 35 runs to the team’s score with the help of five fours and one six. However, he became the victim of Axar Patel on the third ball of the 10th over. At that time the score of Mumbai Indians was 71 runs. On the score of 85, Mumbai got the fourth blow in the form of Sherfane Rutherford. He contributed only five runs in 7 balls.
Naman Dhir played an inning of 28 runs in 21 balls with the help of two fours and a six and took the team’s score beyond 100 runs. In the end, Mitchell Santner scored 18 runs in 13 balls and Corbin Bosch scored 11 runs in 4 balls, taking the team’s score beyond 150 runs.
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Even Surya’s fifty did not work: Captain Suryakumar Yadav, with the help of his fifty, took Mumbai’s score to a respectable position. Surya played an excellent inning of 51 runs in 36 balls. Hit 3 fours and 2 sixes in his innings and set a score worth fighting for Delhi. The biggest partnership from Mumbai was 53 runs in 40 balls between Suryakumar Yadav and Rohit Sharma. After this, Surya also made a partnership of 37 runs in 22 balls with Naman Dheer.
Delhi bowling: Delhi Capitals bowler Mukesh Kumar took two wickets for 26 runs in 3 overs. Lungi Ngidi took one wicket for 34 runs in 4 overs. Akshar Patel, Vipraj Nigam and T. Natarajan also got one success each. Kuldeep Yadav bowled three overs. Gave 31 runs but did not get any success.
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