IPL 2026, DC vs MI Today Match: Hardik Pandya has been ruled out of Mumbai Indians’ Indian Premier League 2026 match against Delhi Capitals at Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday, April 4, 2026, due to illness. Speaking at the toss, Suryakumar confirmed that Pandya is not well to take the field, without providing further details on the nature of the illness.
"Hardik Pandya is not well, so, it's better to give him a break today, so that he is back fresh and fine later on. This of course is a different wicket from what we had at the Wankhede, and the conditions are different too. We don't mind batting first in a day game, actually, we would have batted first only," SKY said.
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Suryakumar has previously led Mumbai Indians on a few occasions, including during the IPL 2025 season opener when Pandya was serving a one-match ban due to slow over-rate offences from the previous season. He also captained the side in IPL 2023 when regular skipper Rohit Sharma was unavailable.
Mumbai Indians made three changes to their playing XI from the side that registered a historic win over Kolkata Knight Riders. Deepak Chahar, Corbin Bosch and Mitchell Santner were brought into the side, replacing Pandya, Trent Boult and Allah Ghazanfar.
DC vs MI Playing XIs:
Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): KL Rahul(w), Pathum Nissanka, Nitish Rana, Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Vipraj Nigam, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton(w), Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Naman Dhir, Sherfane Rutherford, Mitchell Santner, Corbin Bosch, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah
Impact Substitutes:
Delhi Capitals Impact subs: Ashutosh Sharma, Auqib Nabi Dar, Sameer Rizvi, Dushmantha Chameera, Karun Nair
Mumbai Indians Impact subs: Mayank Markande, Robin Minz, Raj Bawa, Trent Boult, Ashwani Kumar