IPL: Delhi Daredevils suffer record defeat

IPL scores (Delhi)

Mumbai Indians (20/20) 212-3 (Simmons 66, Pollard 63*, Pandya 29*; Anderson 1-29, Rabada 1-33)

Delhi Daredevils (13.4/20) 66 all out (Nair 21; Sharma 3-11, Harbhajan 3-22, Mainga 2-5)

Mumbai Indians won by 146 runs

Match report

Delhi Daredevils suffered a record IPL defeat in losing by 146 runs to the Mumbai Indians, who become the first team to qualify for the knockout phase with their ninth win in 11 games.

Mumbai set their Delhi hosts a massive 213-run target after West Indies pair Lendl Simmons (66 off 43 balls) - replacing England's Jos Buttler - and Kieron Pollard (63 off 25) hit explosive half centuries.

The writing was on the wall for Delhi when they lost Sanju Samson to the first ball of their reply and they ultimately crumbled to 66 all out inside 13.4 overs.

Spinners Karn Sharma (3-11) and Harbhajan Singh (3-22) were the pick of the Mumbai bowlers, finishing with three wickets apiece.

Earlier, the Indians were put into bat after losing the toss and opened up with a new top order partnership, planning ahead for Buttler's return to England before the tournament's end.

Simmons made the most of his first outing of IPL 10, though he struggled initially with only six runs coming from his first 11 deliveries before a pulled six off Kagiso Rabada in the fourth over got him going.

Parthiv Patel (25 off 22) also played nicely at the other end and when he was eventually out stumped off Amit Mishra, Mumbai were well placed at 79-1 after nine overs.

In came Pollard, and he followed his international team-mate Simmons through to 50, though it was the equally destructive Hardik Pandya who did the damage at the end of the innings.

Pandya's unbeaten 29 off 14 balls contained one four and three sixes, with all but a solitary six coming from the final over, to lift Mumbai's total beyond 200 and well out of Delhi's reach.