IPL 2026, Sameer Rizvi: Delhi Capitals registered a spectacular victory by defeating Mumbai Indians in the 8th match of IPL 2026. In this match played at Arun Jaitley Stadium, an explosive and memorable inning was seen from the bat of Sameer Rizvi, due to which Delhi won the match by 6 wickets. This is the second consecutive victory of Delhi Capitals. At the same time, Mumbai had to face its first defeat of the season.

Mumbai Indians put 162 runs on the board

Batting first, Mumbai Indians scored 162 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. The team had a bad start when Mukesh Kumar dismissed Ryan Rickleton and Tilak Verma in the same over. At the same time, Rohit Sharma managed one end by scoring 35 runs in 26 balls, but was out on the ball of Akshar Patel. Suryakumar Yadav played a useful inning of 51 runs, while Naman Dheer added 28 runs. In Delhi's bowling, Mukesh Kumar took 2 wickets, apart from this, Akshar Patel, Lungi Ngidi, Vipraj Nigam and T Natarajan got 1 wicket each.

Sameer Rizvi's innings was heavy on MI

While chasing the target of 162 runs, Delhi also had a shaky start. KL Rahul was out after scoring only 1 run. At the same time, Nitish Rana became the victim of run out. After this, Pathum Nissanka gave some support to the team by playing a quick inning of 44 runs, but the pressure increased after the third wicket fell at the score of 73. After this, Sameer Rizvi took over the innings and scored runs in a stormy manner.

Facing 51 balls, Sameer Rizvi scored 90 runs at a strike rate of 176.47 and completely took the match away from Mumbai. His innings included 7 fours and 7 sixes. That means he scored 70 runs only with fours and sixes and these 14 shots became the reason for Mumbai's defeat. Due to this memorable innings of Simar Rizvi, Delhi achieved this target in 18.1 overs.