Delhi Capitals maintained their perfect home record in IPL 2026 with a clinical six-wicket victory over Mumbai Indians at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday, chasing down a target of 163 with 11 balls to spare.

Mumbai, captained by stand-in Suryakumar Yadav in the absence of the unwell Hardik Pandya, posted 162 for 6, a total that proved at least 20 runs short on a surface where the average first-innings winning score has climbed to 184.

DC’s win keeps them in the top two of the table while MI slip to a 1-1 record for the season.

The Sameer Rizvi rampage that won the game

If there was any doubt about Sameer Rizvi’s credentials as one of the most exciting young batters in IPL 2026, Saturday’s innings removed it entirely.

The 22-year-old from Uttar Pradesh smashed a career-best 90 off 51 balls featuring seven fours and seven sixes, with 70 percent of his runs coming in boundaries.

The turning point of the chase came in the 11th over bowled by Corbin Bosch, Rizvi plundered 20 runs in four legal deliveries, hitting four, six, six, four in a sequence that effectively ended Mumbai’s hopes of defending their total.

By the time he reached his fifty off 32 balls he had already overtaken Rohit Sharma’s tournament total of 113 and was well on his way to the Orange Cap. He now sits at 160 runs from two innings this season.

DC wobbled early at 26 for 2 before a 106-run partnership completely shifted the momentum and the chase was never seriously threatened after that.

MI fell short with the bat against DC

Mumbai’s innings was a story of early setbacks and a frustrating inability to accelerate through the middle.

Losing two wickets for just 31 runs in the first five overs put MI on the back foot from the start and Suryakumar Yadav, captaining for the day, responded by anchoring the innings with a resilient 51 off 36 balls.

It was a mature and necessary knock but the lack of a secondary big-hitter meant MI could manage only 42 runs between overs seven and fifteen as DC’s bowling unit, led brilliantly by Axar Patel with figures of 1 for 22 from four overs at an economy of 5.50, squeezed the life out of the middle innings.

Naman Dhir added 28 off 21 and Mitchell Santner chipped in with 18 off 13 not out to give the total some respectability in the final three overs, but 162 was never going to be enough on this surface against a batting lineup with Rizvi in ​​this kind of form.

The historic streak for KL Rahul that ended in three balls

The most statistically significant moment of the day arrived before most people had even settled into their seats. KL Rahul came into this game having scored 160 runs off 103 balls against Deepak Chahar across 13 IPL innings without ever being dismissed, the longest unbeaten streak against a single bowler in the history of the competition.

It ended at 0.4 overs when Chahar bowled a fuller delivery angling down leg, drew a thin inside edge and Ryan Rickelton completed the catch.

The early wicket did not spark the kind of collapse DC might have feared, Pathum Nissanka steadied things and Rizvi took over from there, but for Rahul personally it was another deeply uncomfortable afternoon at the crease.

Bumrah was the only other MI bowler to keep his economy under six, finishing with none for 21 from four tidy overs, while the rest of the attack conceded at an average of 10.85 per over as DC’s batters feasted on anything loose.