Sixth consecutive season without IPL trophy (Photo: PTI)
Mumbai Indians, IPL 2026: Who knew that 5-time champions Mumbai Indians would be among the first in the queue of teams to be eliminated from IPL 2026? Who knew that Mumbai Indians, considered to be the most successful team of IPL, would lag so badly in the race for the playoffs? Well, it is not just a matter of being out of IPL 2026 but there is a long-running trend behind it, due to which it has to be said that such a bad time has never come before for Mumbai Indians.
What happened with MI?
What happened to Mumbai Indians, who were out of IPL 2026? The record of the drought he had ended in IPL 14 years ago has also been broken this time. IPL was started in the year 2008. But Mumbai Indians won their first IPL trophy in the year 2012 after ending a wait of 5 years. This time that wait has taken an even more terrible form. Mumbai Indians have now passed 6 IPL seasons without winning a trophy.
Sixth consecutive season without IPL trophy
Mumbai Indians last lifted the IPL trophy in the year 2020. After that, it has not won any title in the 6 seasons played from 2021 to 2026. The last wait was for 5 seasons and this time it is 6 seasons, due to which we are saying that Mumbai Indians have never seen such a bad time in IPL.
Did not win against CSK and RCB for the first time in IPL
However, it was a bad time in the sense that for the first time, it did not win its matches against both CSK and RCB on the IPL pitch. In the IPL 2026 match played against Chennai Super Kings on 23 April, Mumbai Indians were defeated by a huge margin of 103 runs. After that, in the second match played on 2 May, he defeated by 8 wickets. Similarly, Mumbai lost both the matches against RCB. The first match against RCB was played on 12 April in which Mumbai Indians lost by 18 runs, whereas in the second match played on 10 May, Mumbai Indians had to face defeat by 2 wickets.
