Chennai Super Kings Hand Mumbai Indians Record-Breaking Defeat in IPL 2026

Mumbai: Five-time champions Mumbai Indians have suffered their biggest defeat in IPL history. On Thursday, Chennai Super Kings defeated Mumbai by 103 runs at their home ground.

In the 33rd match of the season held at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai won the toss and decided to bowl. Chennai set a massive target of 208 runs.

Chasing the target, the Mumbai team was all out for just 104 runs in 19 overs. For Mumbai, Tilak Varma scored 37 and Suryakumar Yadav scored 36 runs. For Chennai, Akeal Hosein took 4 wickets and Noor Ahmad took 2 wickets.

Earlier, batting first, Chennai scored 207 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. Sanju Samson played a brilliant unbeaten innings of 101 runs. This is his second century in IPL 2026. 

Previously, he scored a century against Delhi Capitals on April 11. Overall, this is the fifth century of his IPL career. He hit 10 fours and 6 sixes in his innings.

Ruturaj Gaikwad (22 runs) and Dewald Brevis (21 runs) also made important contributions for the team. In bowling for Mumbai, Allah Ghazanfar and Ashwini Kumar took 2 wickets each, while Jasprit Bumrah and Mitchell Santner took one wicket each.

Interesting statistics from the match:

• 103 runs: This defeat suffered by Mumbai Indians against Chennai Super Kings is their biggest loss in the IPL by runs. Previously, their biggest defeat was by 87 runs against Rajasthan Royals in 2013.

Before Thursday's match, Mumbai's biggest defeat by runs at Wankhede Stadium was by 39 runs against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2015.

• 1: Chennai has registered a victory by a margin of more than 100 runs for the first time in IPL history. Previously, their biggest win was by 97 runs against Kings XI Punjab at Chepauk in 2015.
• 104 runs: This total scored by Mumbai on Thursday is their lowest ever against Chennai. Previously, their lowest total was 136/8 in Dubai in 2021.

This is also Mumbai's lowest total since being bowled out for 87 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad at Wankhede in 2018.

• 19: This is Chennai's 19th win against Mumbai in the IPL, which is the most wins any team has achieved against Mumbai. Chennai has surpassed the record of Punjab Kings (18 wins). Six of these wins have come at Wankhede, which is tied with Punjab.
• In head-to-head, Mumbai is still ahead of Chennai with 21 wins. However, Mumbai has won only 2 of their last 9 meetings and only 1 of the 6 matches played since the start of 2023.
• 101 runs: Sanju Samson has become the first Chennai player to score a century against Mumbai in the IPL. Previously, the highest individual score for Chennai against Mumbai was 88* (unbeaten), which was scored by Ruturaj Gaikwad in 2021.
• 2: Samson is the second Chennai batter to score more than one century in a single IPL season. Previously, Shane Watson scored two centuries in 2018. Overall in the IPL, Samson is the fourth batter to score more than one century for Chennai (the other two are Murali Vijay and Gaikwad).
• 1: Mumbai has become the first team in the IPL to suffer a defeat by a large margin in the very next match after winning by a margin of more than 90 runs. Mumbai had defeated Gujarat Titans by 99 runs in the previous match. (In 2011, after Punjab defeated RCB by 111 runs in Dharamshala, they lost to Deccan Chargers by 82 runs in the very next match).
• 14: A total of 14 individual centuries have been scored against Mumbai in the IPL so far, which is tied for the most alongside centuries scored against Kolkata and Bengaluru. Out of these 14 centuries against Mumbai, 10 have been scored since the start of 2019 alone.
• 9: Spinners took a total of 9 wickets in Thursday's match, which is the most wickets taken by spinners in any IPL match held at Wankhede Stadium.

Interestingly, all these 9 wickets were taken by overseas spinners, which is the most wickets taken by overseas spinners in any IPL match. Previously, in a match between Chennai and Bengaluru in 2022, overseas spinners took 8 wickets.