By Admin 
The journey of IPL 2026 has not been good so far for Mumbai Indians. On Thursday, Chennai Super Kings defeated Mumbai by a huge margin of 103 runs. This is the first time in history that Mumbai has lost by a margin of 100 or more runs. This is Chennai’s biggest win on the basis of runs. Captain Hardik Pandya first proved expensive in bowling and then flopped with the bat, he was out after scoring 1 run on his second ball. After the match he said that we should have batted well in the powerplay, they (CSK) also batted on this pitch.
With the help of Sanju Samson’s century, Chennai Super Kings had scored 207 runs. While chasing, the entire Mumbai Indians team was reduced to 104 runs. After the fall of 3 wickets at 11, there was a partnership of 73 runs between Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Verma, but then after the breakup of this pair, the entire team disintegrated. Hardik Pandya said after the match that while chasing this score, we needed a good powerplay.
What did Hardik Pandya say?
Hardik said after the match, “It is always difficult to lose wickets in the powerplay. After that we could not recover. We had to bat better. They also batted on the same pitch. Sanju Samson played a brilliant innings and his batsmen kept coming and gradually scored a good score. To chase this score, we needed a good powerplay and also momentum, but it did not happen.”
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Let us tell you that 3 wickets of Mumbai Indians had fallen at the score of only 11. Quinton de Kock was out after scoring 7 runs and Danish Malevar and Naman Dheer could not even open the account. After this there was a partnership of 73 runs between Suryakumar and Tilak Verma. This partnership broke at the score of 84, after which all the remaining wickets also fell within 20 runs and the entire Mumbai Indians were reduced to 104 runs.
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Except Suryakumar (36) and Tilak Verma (37), no other batsman of Mumbai Indians could even touch double figures. Hardik Pandya was out after scoring 1, Sherfane Rutherford 0 and Shardul Thakur after scoring 6 runs.