IPL 2026: Delhi Capitals defeated Mumbai Indians by 6 wickets, Sameer Rizvi played a brilliant innings.

In the 8th match of IPL 2026, Delhi Capitals registered their second consecutive win by defeating five-time champions Mumbai Indians by 6 wickets. This exciting match was played at Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday. Delhi won the toss and decided to bowl first. Mumbai Indians scored 162 runs by losing 6 wickets in 20 overs, while Delhi achieved the target of 163 runs in 18.1 overs by losing 4 wickets.

Sameer Rizvi’s contribution in Delhi’s victory
For Delhi, impact player Sameer Rizvi played a brilliant inning of 90 runs in 51 balls. This innings was his second consecutive fifty. Rizvi played an important role with his batting in helping the team reach the target. Apart from them, Pathum Nissanka contributed 44 runs and David Miller contributed 21 unbeaten runs.

Performance of Deepak Chahar and Santner for Mumbai
Deepak Chahar, Corbin Bosch and Mitchell Santner took 1 wicket each for Mumbai Indians. Whereas, Jasprit Bumrah ran out Nitish Rana.

Suryakumar Yadav’s half-century innings
Mumbai’s stand-in captain Suryakumar Yadav played a half-century. He scored 58 runs on 50 balls. Apart from them, Rohit Sharma contributed 35 runs, Naman Dheer contributed 28 runs and Mitchell Santner contributed 18 unbeaten runs.

Delhi bowlers created pressure
Delhi Capitals bowler Mukesh Kumar played an important role by taking 2 wickets. Apart from this, Akshar Patel, Lungi Ngidi, Vipraj Nigam and T Natarajan got 1 wicket each.

Hardik Pandya not playing and Suryakumar Yadav’s leadership
Mumbai Indians’ regular captain Hardik Pandya was not playing in this match. At the time of toss, Suryakumar Yadav told that Hardik is not completely fit, hence today he is taking command of the team.

next match
After this, today the second match is being played between Gujarat Titans and Rajasthan Royals at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.

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