IPL 2026 DC vs CSK highlights: Sanju Samson’s storm swept Delhi Capitals, led CSK to win by 8 wickets.

New Delhi: After tight bowling, due to the stormy batting of Sanju Samson, Chennai Super Kings defeated Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets. This 48th match of IPL 2026 between Delhi and CSK was played at Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium. In the match, Delhi Capitals captain Sanju Samson, batting first after winning the toss, could score only 155 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. In response to this score of Delhi, CSK won the match with 15 balls remaining.

This is CSK’s 5th win in 10 matches in IPL 2026. With this victory, CSK has further strengthened its hopes of reaching the playoffs. CSK still has four more league matches to play. Out of these, if the team wins even 3 matches then it will have 16 points, through which it can reach the playoffs. At the same time, the path to playoff has become difficult for Delhi from here. Delhi has lost its sixth match in the season. Delhi still has 4 more matches to play. In such a situation, if it wants to reach the playoffs here, then it is necessary for it to win all the matches, only then the Delhi team will be able to reach 16 points.

Sanju and Karthik shine in CSK’s victory

Sanju Samson once again performed brilliantly for CSK in the match against Delhi. Sanju, who came to start the innings, played an unbeaten inning of 87 runs in 52 balls. In this innings he also hit 7 fours and 6 sixes. Apart from this, Karthik Sharma, who scored a half-century in the last match for CSK, scored 41 runs in 31 balls. Karthiyahak hit 2 sixes and 4 fours for the team in this innings. Apart from this, for CSK, captain Ruturaj Gaikwad played an inning of 6 runs and Urvil Patel played an inning of 17 runs, due to which CSK got an easy victory.

Delhi Capitals’ batting was poor

In this match against CSK, the top order batting of Delhi Capitals was very ordinary. Pathum Nissanka and KL Rahul could not give a good start to their team. For Delhi, the top five batsmen could not spend much time at the crease. This is the reason why the team could not score big. Sameer Rizvi and Tristan Stubbs definitely tried well in the middle order. Rizvi scored 40 runs in 24 balls with the help of 4 sixes while Stubbs contributed 38 runs in 31 balls. Noor Ahmed was the most successful in bowling for CSK, taking 2 wickets in his account.