MI vs CSK IPL 2026 highlights: Chennai beat Mumbai by 103 runs at Wankhede

This has been a poor batting effort from the Mumbai Indians. Will Jacks is the player who can come in, but with him coming in, they have to rotate the foreign slot yet again going forward. Will Rohit Sharma's return improve things? It might, but still, they have to find inspiration. As we update, Bumrah has fallen. Mumbai have been humbled here and are bundled for 104, and Chennai has won by 103 runs at Wankhede.

After the win against the Gujarat Titans, this is another humbling for the Mumbai Indians. They did have a decent day with the ball, but with the bat it came apart pretty quickly. After the triumph in 2020, it does seem like another season is slowly slipping away from the five-time champions.

Akeal Hosein has returned to the attack here. He has bowled quite well in his first spell, and Gaikwad has brought him hoping that he will pick a wicket here. One of the things Chennai is lacking in this season is the lack of a death bowler. So the longer this partnership goes from here on the panic will also slowly set in Chennai camp too. As we update Hosein has picked up Tilak Varma

Both Tilak and Surya have put on a 50-run stand here. This is a nice partnership from both, but Mumbai still has a lot of work to do. But the good thing though, is they are playing in Wankhede, where runs can come pretty quickly. Right, both the batters in the middle have got starts and one of these two need to bat till the end.

Both Surya and Tilak have batted long enough to stop the fall of wickets, but they have to make sure they do not let the run-rate get into territory, which will be hard to get. While one of Tilak and Surya can bat through and the other batter can start going after the bowling at this point both are a bit stuck at the crease.

Mumbai Indians lost two more wickets. Mukesh Choudhary has come in and picked up the wicket of Quinton De Kock, who dragged one on to the stumps and Hosein who picked up his second wicket tossed one up and Naman Dhir was decived by it and lost his stumps. Mumbai Indians has lost three wickets within no time here.

The ball held onto the pitch a bit on a back of a length. The fuller balls were coming onto the bat nicely. In these conditions, it's a chaseable score for our team. There's no dew yet, but maybe it will come in the second innings. (Plan against Brevis) The plan was to bowl the slower bumper and that's what I tried to execute.

Jasprit Bumrah is done for the day. Although he only picked up one wicket, he bowled nicely, given how flat this wicket has been. This is a good bowling performance from the Mumbai Indians so far. For Chennai, Samson did his job from the end. They needed someone to deliver a 10-ball 30 of sorts to take them to a good score which would be around 220 on this wicket.

Both Mumbai spinners Ghazanfar and Santner are done for they day. They have bowled well Ghazanfar yet again has looked brilliant with his varitons and has managed to pick up three wickets. He is one bowler this season for Mumbai Indians who has delivered time and again despite some of the poor games they have had this season.

Ashwani Kumar has picked up Dewald Brevis here. Brevis has had his issues with short balls in recent times, and that is what has done him. It was a short ball there to be cut, which is what Brevis did, and ended up giving a catch to fine-leg. Kartik Sharma is the new batter that has walked in.

Samson is playing a nice knock here he is one of those players who will score big when he gets a start and that is what Super Kings will be hoping here he will do. As we update, Ghazanfar has picked up Shivam Dube here as the batter tried to attack the spinner through mid-wicket. Dube lost his stumps.

Ghazanfar has picked up Gaikwad. It was a carrom ball which the batter had not picked up and ended up skying in the air and was caught on the boundary. However, despite the wicket,, Sanju Samson from the other end has got his innings going. He played a lovely innings against England at this very venue.

We are done with the opening over here. Jasprit Bumrah has taken the new ball, and it is moving for him as it always does in Wankhede. One of the heartwarming things to see from a Mumbai perspective is them continuing to start with Bumrah, who is a premium bowler.

There are some very big players playing for both teams, like MS Dhoni bhai is here. Both teams are five-time champions, so I guess that is why it is such a rivalry. The special moment is that the atmosphere today will be very good, it will be electrifying. There will be tremendous support for both teams, so we are looking forward to winning this game. The Indian Premier League is always a long tournament, but at the same time matches pass by very quickly in the tournament, so momentum is always very important. That last match gave us a big boost because they were a very good team. Gujarat Titans were playing at their home ground. We had never won there before, so defeating them there by that margin was a very good boost for us. There are a lot of positive conversations happening. And if you look at slow starts, it has been a trend with Mumbai Indians, so we are not too worried. We have just come here to play good cricket, and we will do that today. Unfortunately Rohit Sharma bhai had a niggle in his hamstring. After that, one day before the match, I was told. Mahela Jayawardene told me that I might bat at number three. Actually, I bat in the top order for my domestic team as well, so it was nothing new for me. I just faced the new ball in the nets, so I felt I was ready. (Which batting position he prefers?) I am comfortable everywhere, I do not have any problem with that. But yes, if you get more time in a game to settle in, then obviously why not. (Will we get to see pull shots like Rohit Sharma from your bat?) Definitely, I will try.

We are going to bowl first. I think a lot of boxes were ticked. The intensity was there. I think we needed that kind of a game where everyone comes in and chips in. Yeah, we had a perfect game. Yes, I think that was a conscious effort - that no matter what happens, intensity is in your control. I just wanted to make sure that we enjoy ourselves. I think things were becoming quite serious. Cricket is played best when you are enjoying the sport. A lot of things happen, right! So yeah, we just wanted to have fun. Things went our way and it was a good game. This pitch looks green, but it did against the KKR game as well, and it played pretty well. It’s going to be a good track. Just want to see how much we have on the board and chase it. Same team.

Sanju Samson(w), Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Sarfaraz Khan, Dewald Brevis, Shivam Dube, Kartik Sharma, Jamie Overton, Noor Ahmad, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjapneet Singh, Mukesh Choudhary

It’s very good and a good learning for me. Every game is a new start for me, and I’m just trying to learn every single point from the game and take it into the next game. It’s going good. (That wicket off the first ball, what was that feeling like?) Of course, that feeling I still can’t forget. But immediately, for the first few seconds after it happened, I was really shocked, like, what’s going on? But still I was like, okay, I got a wicket, let’s celebrate and let’s look forward to the next ball. (How happy are your parents for you?) Of course, it’s very good when your parents are always there backing you in all the small moments and all. It’s really a good moment for me when they always come here, support me, and wish me luck as well. It’s very good for me. I was just talking to the bowling coaches as well, and mostly it’s the death overs that I’m looking at. I want to work more on that especially, which is one of the most important things in Indian Premier League cricket, right? So I’m focusing more on death overs, how to bowl according to the particular batsman and all. We are discussing here which yorker, slow one, or slow bouncer to use according to the ground and all. All these small points I’m adding on and just keep learning with that.

“We would plan to bat according to the conditions. We talk before every match, and he speaks about situations, match conditions and how he has had to move from number three to middle order. So I suggest that he read the conditions before going after the bowling,” Bayash said.

“I was speaking especially to Rohit (Sharma) bhai. He was telling me, ‘Tu khel le matlab 15-20 ball khel le aur tujhe pataa hai tera capability kya hai (You play 15-20 balls, you know what you are capable of). 15 ball khel le, uske baad tu kya karega, hum ko, sab ko pataa hai, (We know what you can do after playing 15 balls)" Tilak said in the pre-match press conference on Wednesday.

“This win was important for MI, and also important for the IPL. See, they have a good team, and the way MI were losing with this team, they would have been really upset about it. When you have Quinton de Kock, you have to continue with him even after Rohit Sharma comes in. I agree Rickelton is a very good player, but de Kock is de Kock. That is the absolute bottom line. Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock will form a very strong opening combination,” he added.

“Remember that Hardik Pandya is yet to open up with the bat. He will also start opening up with the bat. It is just a matter of one innings. If he gets a good hit in one innings, it will be very difficult to stop this team. If this team starts firing, it will become very difficult to stop them.”

Mumbai Indians received a big boost ahead of their clash against CSK, as all-rounder Will Jacks linked up with the squad. The Englishman practiced with the team on Tuesday, raising hopes of possibly featuring in Thursday’s match.

Madhwal who joined the 5-time champions at a fee of Rs 30 lakh, has previously plied his trade for the Mumbai Indians in 2023 and 2024 before joining the Rajasthan Royals in 2025. He has played 17 IPL matches and has taken 23 wickets. The 32-year-old also has a five-wicket haul to his name, having recorded sensational figures of 5/5 in his debut season for MI in the Eliminator against Lucknow Super Giants.

"You have to look at the game all the time with a sense of understanding of what's happened. Mumbai were in trouble. The gentleman (Tilak Varma) who just left played an incredible knock. And that turns the game around. The T20 game is often about someone doing something particularly special in a moment. A great performance is just around the corner with the kind of quality in these two teams. We don't get too caught up in the fact that we've come off a loss and that they've come off a win. It starts again tomorrow, and that's what we'll focus on. But one performance in this format, with the quality of the players we have, can make all the difference."

Quinton de Kock (wk), Danish Malewar, Naman Dhir, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya (c), Sherfane Rutherford, Krish Bharat, Mitchell Santner, Will Jacks, Jasprit Bumrah, Ashwani Kumar.