Delhi Capitals defeated Mumbai Indians by 6 wickets, Sameer Rizvi scored 90 runs.

Samira Vishwas

Tezzbuzz|05-04-2026

DC vs MI, IPL 2026: Delhi Capitals The team achieved its second consecutive win in the tournament by defeating Mumbai Indians by 6 wickets in the 8th match of IPL 2026 played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Saturday, 04 April. The main role in this victory of Delhi was played by their middle order batsman Sameer Rizvi. Rizvi played a stormy innings of 90 runs before getting out and made his team’s victory easy.

In this match, Mumbai Indians, who came to bat first after losing the toss, scored 162 runs after losing 6 wickets in 20 overs on the basis of half-century innings of its acting captain Suryakumar Yadav and set a target of 163 runs in front of Delhi Capitals. In the absence of Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav was captaining Mumbai Indians and by batting at number-4, he scored the highest score of 51 runs for the team by hitting 3 fours and 2 sixes in 36 balls. Apart from them, Rohit Sharma played a good inning of 35 runs on 26 balls and Naman Dheer played a good inning of 28 runs on 21 balls for MI.

If we talk about the bowlers of Delhi Capitals, Mukesh Kumar took 2 wickets for 26 runs in three overs. Whereas Lungi Ngidi, Akshar Patel, Vipraj Nigam and T Natarajan took one wicket each. After this, when the Delhi team came out to chase this target, they also had a very bad start and they lost the wickets of KL Rahul and Nitish Rana on a total score of just 7 runs.

After this, opener Pathum Nissanka and number four Sameer Rizvi took over the innings and put their team ahead in the match by making a half-century partnership for the third wicket. Nissanka played an inning of 44 runs in 30 balls before getting out and Sameer Rizvi played an inning of 90 runs in 51 balls with the help of 7 fours and 7 sixes, giving his team an easy victory. In the end, David Miller also completed the formalities by scoring 21 runs in 18 balls and led his team to victory by 6 wickets in 18.1 overs. Deepak Chahar, Mitchell Santner and Corbin Bosch took 1-1 wicket for Mumbai. Rizvi was adjudged player of the match for his stormy innings of 90 runs.