Sanju Samson hits second century of IPL season as Chennai hammer Mumbai by 103 runs

[p]Put in to bat first, five-time champions [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/chennai-super-kings/hQRNSDp4/"]Chennai[/a] rode on Samson's unbeaten 101 off 54 balls to post 207-6 at [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/mumbai-indians/2eZPzJH2/"]Mumbai[/a]'s Wankhede Stadium.[/p][p]Chennai's West Indies spinner Akeal Hosein then returned impressive figures of 4-17 to bundle out Mumbai, who have also won the IPL five times, for 104 in 19 overs.[/p][p]The colossal winning margin boosted Chennai's net run-rate and took them to fifth spot in the 10-team table. Mumbai slipped to eighth with five defeats from seven outings.[/p][p]"They batted well," said Mumbai skipper Hardik Pandya. "[b]It was the same track, it is the same soil. We should have just batted well[/b]."[/p][p]Chennai started their innings briskly, courtesy of skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad's 14-ball 22 before he fell to Afghanistan spinner A.M. Ghazanfar in the third over.[/p][p]Samson then teed off with three fours and one six off Pandya but kept losing partners at the other end, including Dewald Brevis for 21.[/p][embed guid="68c93ecf-391c-4f8a-a852-3db62fe23ba9" url="https://x.com/ChennaiIPL/status/2047348056140693563" social-type="twitter" /][p]Undeterred, the 31-year-old took on the opposition attack, hitting 10 fours and six maximums across his well-crafted knock.[/p][p]Samson, who was named player of the match, came into this edition of the IPL on the back of three half-centuries in the last three matches of India's T20 World Cup triumph on home soil in March.[/p][p]"Feels great to score a century in Wankhede versus Mumbai," said Samson.[/p][p]"[b]After the powerplay, we kept losing wickets. I thought it's important for a settled batsman to bat through. The game tells you what to do[/b]."[/p][p]Mumbai bowlers struck regular blows as Ghazanfar and left-arm quick Ashwani Kumar took two wickets each before Samson's final assault took Chennai past 200.[/p][p]Samson reached his fifth hundred in the T20 tournament with a four on the final ball of the innings and raised his bat to acknowledge the applause from the fans and the dugout.[/p][p]In reply, Mumbai lost three wickets, including South African Quinton de Kock for seven, in the first three overs and slipped to 11-3.[/p][p]Impact substitute Hosein, a left-arm spinner, took two of the three.[/p][embed guid="845fc3be-d600-464a-8f43-31abb47d3e58" url="https://x.com/ChennaiIPL/status/2047374560203612410" social-type="twitter" /][p]Suryakumar Yadav, who made 35, and Tilak Varma attempted to rebuild in a partnership of 73 but the asking rate kept rising with some tidy bowling by Chennai.[/p][p]The wily Hosein returned to break the stand as he got Varma to drag a delivery onto his stumps and out for 37.[/p][p]Wickets kept tumbling as Noor Ahmad struck on successive balls to send back Pandya, for one, and Sherfane Rutherford for a duck, before Shardul Thakur avoided the hat-trick.[/p][p]Hosein dismissed Suryakumar for his fourth wicket and, with that, the batting fizzled out.[/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/cricket/chennai-super-kings-hQRNSDp4/mumbai-indians-2eZPzJH2/?mid=AgJEUMKU"]Check out the scorecard here[/a][/b][/p]