IPL 2026 MI vs CSK Live Score, Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings Playing 11 Updates: Dubbed the El Clásico of the Indian Premier League, two of the most successful franchises in tournament history, Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings, face each other in IPL 2026 Match No. 33 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday, adding another chapter to their storied rivalry.
Both sides have a glorious history, having won the title five times each while also being fierce rivals in the tournament. The high-octane clash could be one of the last times Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni share the field together.
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Ironically, both teams are languishing near the bottom of the points table with equal wins from equal games. Both MI and CSK have two wins in six matches in IPL 2026. Hardik Pandya’s Mumbai sit in seventh place with a +0.067 net run rate, while Ruturaj Gaikwad’s Chennai are eighth among ten teams with a -0.780 NRR.
MI lead CSK in head-to-head encounters, having won 21 of the 39 matches played between the two sides in IPL. CSK have emerged victorious 18 times.
MI vs CSK Squads:
Mumbai Indians Squad: Quinton de Kock (wk), Hardik Pandya (c) Rohit Sharma, Danish Malewar, Naman Dhir, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Sherfane Rutherford, Mitchell Santner, Krish Bhagat, Jasprit Bumrah, AM Ghazanfar, Ashwani Kumar, Raj Bawa, Corbin Bosch, Mayank Rawat, Raghu Sharma, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Shardul Thakur, Will Jacks, Mayank Markande, Ryan Rickelton, Robin Minz, Mohammed Salahuddin Izhar.
Chennai Super Kings Squad: Sanju Samson (wk), Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), MS Dhoni Matthew Short, Sarfaraz Khan, Dewald Brevis, Shivam Dube, Jamie Overton, Anshul Kamboj, Noor Ahmad, Mukesh Choudhary, Gurjapneet Singh, Kartik Sharma, Prashant Veer, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Matt Henry, Akeal Hosein, Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Chahar, Spencer Johnson, Urvil Patel, Aman Khan, Zakary Foulkes.
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Mumbai Indians batter Tilak Verma celebrates after scoring a hundred against Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad. (CREIMAS)
T20 is increasingly becoming a format where strike rates for batsmen at the top matter a lot more than before. Under such circumstances, Tilak Varma is an anomaly — he is an innings builder and not someone who dominates from ball one. He reads the situation and then turns it around in a short time. That shift — from control to acceleration — is a clear pattern in how he bats in the shortest format. The latest example was during MI’s previous match against the Gujarat Titans. The southpaw, who walked out after the sixth over with MI tottering at 44/3, did not break stride in the first half of his innings, focussing more on strike rotation to be on 19 runs in 22 balls. (READ MORE)
