&imwidth=800&imheight=600&format=webp&quality=medium "IPL 2026: Chennai rock Mumbai in one-sided contest as Samson, Hosein shine at Wankhede Stadium")
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) rocked Mumbai Indians (MI) in a one-sided contest at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday (April 23) with Sanju Samson and Akeal Hosein starring for the visitors. Samson scored an unbeaten 101 while Hosein scalped four wickets to help CSK beat MI by 103 runs and give a massive boost to the net run rate (NRR). The win meant CSK are now fifth in the standings after a poor start to the IPL 2026 season, while MI are now second from bottom after the loss.
CSK win big at Wankhede
Chasing 208, Mumbai lost three wickets, including South African Quinton de Kock for seven, in the first three overs, slipping to 11/3. Impact substitute Hosein, a left-arm spinner, took two of the three. Suryakumar Yadav, who made 35, and Tilak Varma attempted to rebuild with a partnership of 73, but the asking rate kept rising amid tidy bowling by Chennai.
The wily Hosein returned to break the stand as he got Varma to drag a delivery onto his stumps and out for 37. Wickets kept tumbling as Noor Ahmad struck on successive balls to send back Pandya, for one, and Sherfane Rutherford for a duck, before Shardul Thakur avoided the hat-trick. Hosein dismissed Suryakumar for his fourth and, with that, the batting fizzled out.
What happened in CSK innings?
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Put in to bat first, five-time champions Chennai rode on Samson's unbeaten 101 off 54 balls to post 207/6 at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium. Chennai's West Indies spinner Akeal Hosein then returned impressive figures of 17/4 to bundle out Mumbai, who have also won the IPL five times, for 104 in 19 overs. The colossal winning margin boosted Chennai's net run-rate and took them to fifth spot in the 10-team table. Mumbai slipped to eighth with five defeats from seven outings.
Chennai started their innings briskly, courtesy of skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad's 14-ball 22 before he fell to Afghanistan spinner A.M. Ghazanfar in the third over. Samson then teed off with three fours and one six off Mumbai skipper Hardik Pandya but kept losing partners at the other end, including Dewald Brevis for 21. Undeterred, the 31-year-old took on the opposition attack, hitting 10 fours and six maximums across his well-crafted knock.
Mumbai bowlers struck regular blows as Ghazanfar and left-arm quick Ashwani Kumar took two wickets each before Samson's final assault took Chennai past 200. Samson reached his fifth hundred in the T20 tournament with a four on the final ball of the innings and raised his bat to acknowledge the applause from the fans and the dugout.
