A brilliant partnership from Ruturaj Gaikwad and Kartik Sharma has sealed an 8-wicket victory against the Mumbai Indians on May 02 at Chennai.

They made an unbeaten 98-run partnership to put a clinical win against the Mumbai Indians in Saturday’s clash. With this win, CSK will move to the 6th position in the IPL 2026 points table.

After choosing to bat first, Ryan Rickelton and Will Jacks opened the innings for the Mumbai Indians while Mukesh Choudhary opened the bowling attack.

Anshul Kamboj brought the first breakthrough, dismissing Will Jacks for 1 run. He got dismissed on a swing full length delivery, which Ramakrishna Ghosh took a brilliant catch running from deep backward point.

With Ryan Rickelton and Naman Dhir at the crease, the Mumbai Indians went on to score 57 runs in the power play. The duo made a 58-run partnership for the second wicket.

Noor Ahmad, who was introduced to bowling after the power play, picked the wicket of Ryan Rickelton. He got dismissed on a quick length around off where he hit it flat nd Urvil Patel picked the catch at Deep backward square leg.

With Naman Dhir and Suryakumar Yadav are aiming to forge a partnership, Ramakrishna Ghosh picked the wicket of Suryakumar Yadav for 21 runs on a short delivery. Ghosh got his maiden IPL wicket after Dewald Brevis took a easy catch as Mumbai Indians lost three wickets for 99 runs.

Tilak Varma who came to bat at No. 5 got dismissed for 5 runs. Tilak who looked for sweep shot, gets a thick top-edge where the ball goes high in the cover where Ruturaj Gaikwad picked the catch.

In the meantime, Naman Dhir smashed his fifty but got dismissed for 57 runs before being dismissed by Jamie Overton. He was sent back to dug out on a deceived pace where the batter miscued the timing as the ball went towards extra cover and Sarfaraz Khan took a brilliant catch.

With no answers for CSK bowlers, Mumbai Indians were struggling to pick runs. Anshul Kamboj picked his second and third wicket dismissing Robin Minz and Hardik Pandya for 5 and 18 runs respectively.

While Robin Minz got bowled out, Hardik Pandya got dismissed on full delivery on leg side where Pandya attempted straight batted loft and Dewald Brevis picked the catch in deep mid wicket.

With Krish Bhagat and Trent Boult at crease, Mumbai Indians scored 159 runs in their innings.

Anshul Kamboj bagged three wickets while, Noor Ahmad picked two wickets, while Ramakrishna Ghosh and Jamie Overton bagged one wicket each.

Chasing 159 runs, Sanju Samson and Ruturaj Gaikwad opened the innings while Trent Boult opened the bowling attack.

Jasprit Bumrah made a crucial breakthrough bagging the wicket of inform Sanju Samson for 11 runs. Earlier he got lifeline in slip where Will Jacks dropped the catch. However, he got dismissed ona outswinger outside off where Samson gets a outside edge and Ryan Rickelton took the catch behind the stumps.

Urvil Patel who came to bat at No.3, joined Gaikwad as the duo put up a solid partnership scoring 49 runs for the second wicket.

Urvil Patel scored 24 runs before AM Ghazanfar sent him back to dugout after being bowler out. With Ruturaj Gaikwad and Kartik Sharma at crease, CSK scored 62 runs in the powerplay.

Ruturaj Gaikwad smashed his fifty 22nd fifty and continued to bat aiming to complete the chasse. On the meantime, Kartik Sharma smashed his maiden IPL fifty in 38 deliveries and remained unbeaten (54) to complete the chase.

The duo forged a 98-run partnership to seal their fourth victory of the season.

Ruturaj Gaikwad remained unbeaten with 67 runs as CSK secured 8-wicket victory against their arch rivals Mumbai Indians.

Chennai Super Kings will play their next game against Delhi Capitals on May 05 at Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi.