A single win makes a huge difference to a team’s position in the IPL points table. If that one win is as big as 99 runs, then that team becomes successful in taking a big leap in the table. Mumbai Indians did exactly this, when Hardik Pandya’s team defeated Gujarat Titans in their sixth match of IPL 2026. Mumbai, which was sitting at the last position in the points table after losing 4 consecutive matches this season, took a huge leap with this one win and pushed Kolkata to the last position again.

Even in the match played at Narendra Modi Stadium on Monday, April 20, Mumbai’s batting was not in full form but Tilak Verma single-handedly took the team to the score of 199 runs by scoring a century. He also received Naman Dheer for a few years. But in case of bowling Mumbai The entire attack was sharp, which started with star fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah taking his first wicket of this season. Then Ashwani Kumar, playing his first match of the season, took 4 wickets for 24 runs and reduced Gujarat to just 100 runs.

MI’s quantum leap with a win

In this way, 5-time champion Mumbai won after losing 4 consecutive matches. This is only the second victory of Mumbai in IPL 2026. In this way, Mumbai now has 4 points from 6 matches and has equaled Chennai Super Kings and Lucknow Super Giants. But Mumbai not only achieved 2 points, but also made tremendous improvement in its net run rate. Before this match, its run rate was around -1.07 but after the 99-run win, its NRR directly increased to 0.067. In this way, he jumped 3 places and directly moved from 10th to 7th position.

These 4 teams suffered losses

With this defeat, Gujarat lost the chance to enter the top-4 and is still at sixth position with 6 points. Besides, its NRR also fell badly and reached -0.821. On the other hand, 3 other teams also had to bear the brunt of Mumbai’s victory. Chennai Super Kings has slipped from 7th to eighth position and Lucknow has slipped from eighth to ninth position. At the same time, Kolkata Knight Riders, who sent Mumbai to the last place by winning their first match a day ago, have now fallen to 10th place.