Rohit and Rickelton blow LSG away in Mumbai's record IPL chase at Wankhede
For three matches Mumbai Indians had looked like a side missing the spark that won them five titles. Against Lucknow Super Giants on Monday night, they found it again at the top of the order. Chasing 229, the highest successful chase in MI's IPL history, Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickelton were already past fifty inside four overs and 143 up by the 11th. By the time Naman Dhir and Will Jacks finished it off with eight balls to spare, Wankhede had seen Mumbai's three-match slide turn into the kind of statement night that resets a season.
A Wankhede setup that asked everything of the chase
Lucknow's 228 for five was the sort of total that would have been winning on most nights this season. Nicholas Pooran's 21-ball 63 was the centrepiece, eight sixes and a strike rate of 300 carving up the middle overs before Corbin Bosch finally got him, with Mitchell Marsh chipping in 44 off 25 inside a 94-run stand. Only 36 runs came off the last four overs, but LSG still walked off thinking they had enough at a ground where chases above 220 have not been routine.
Rohit's hamstring questions answered in 27 balls
Rohit had been missing for much of the season with a hamstring problem, and the questions about whether he would come back the same player did not last long. He raised his fifty off 27 deliveries and finished with 84 off 44, the timing back as if it had never been away. Rickelton, given a free hand at the other end, played the more brutal of the two innings, 83 off 32 with everything cleared off the front foot.
A 143-run stand that effectively decided it
By the time Mohsin Khan finally pinned Rickelton in the 11th over, MI needed barely six an over for the rest of the chase. M Siddharth then collected Rohit and Tilak Varma (11 off 13) in back-to-back overs to drag Lucknow back into something like the conversation, but the equation never really changed. Naman Dhir's 23 not out off 12 and Will Jacks' four-ball cameo finished it with eight balls to spare.
Where this leaves both sides
Mumbai's third win from 10 takes them to six points and pulls them off the bottom of the table, the playoff math still slim but no longer impossible. LSG, on four from nine, are now out of playoffs contention after a sixth straight defeat that has turned their season into one of the more expensive cautionary tales in IPL 2026. For Mumbai, the bigger question is whether this is the night their season turns or a one-off built on Pooran's late hitting masking a chase that always looked gettable once Rohit was set.
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