Indian Premier League (IPL) Stats & Records · 2008–2026 Taste IPL with Data Bits
Bite-sized IPL stats, freshly crunched from every match since 2008 — served with a mix of numbers, colourful tables, charts and crunchy analysis.
- seasons
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- 1,242
- excl. 12 abandoned
- players
- 809
Across 19 IPL seasons, the league has featured 14 franchises (10 active + 4 defunct) and played 1,242 matches from 2008 to 2026. This page follows how scoring has changed season by season, every franchise's win rate, the most successful captains, how each ground plays, and whether winning the toss wins matches.
IPL Scores by Season: The Scoring Trend through 19 Seasons
Season ↕ | M ↕ | Avg 1st ↕ | Bdry % ↕ | 200+ ↕ | Highest ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 74 | 195.8 | 65.2% | 65 | Highest PBKS 265/4 |
| 2025 | 73 played of 74 scheduled | 191.1 | 63.5% | 52 | Highest SRH 286/6 |
| 2024 | 71 played of 74 scheduled | 190.1 | 62.6% | 41 | Highest SRH 287/3, the highest total in IPL history |
| 2023 | 74 | 183.5 | 60.1% | 37 | Highest LSG 257/5 |
| 2022 | 74 | 171.1 | 59.2% | 18 | Highest RR 222/2 |
| 2021 | 60 | 159.3 | 55.4% | 9 | Highest MI 235/9 |
| 2020 | 60 | 169.5 | 55.5% | 13 | Highest DC 228/4 |
| 2019 | 60 | 168.5 | 58.3% | 11 | Highest KKR 232/2 |
| 2018 | 60 | 172.4 | 59.5% | 15 | Highest KKR 245/6 |
| 2017 | 59 played of 60 scheduled | 165.8 | 56.8% | 10 | Highest PBKS 230/3 |
| 2016 | 60 | 162.8 | 54.9% | 6 | Highest RCB 248/3 |
| 2015 | 59 played of 60 scheduled | 168.9 | 57.7% | 7 | Highest RCB 235/1 |
| 2014 | 60 | 163.3 | 55.7% | 9 | Highest PBKS 231/4 |
| 2013 | 76 | 156.6 | 54.3% | 4 | Highest RCB 263/5 |
| 2012 | 74 played of 76 scheduled | 158.4 | 53.6% | 5 | Highest CSK 222/5 |
| 2011 | 73 played of 74 scheduled | 155.0 | 54.3% | 5 | Highest PBKS 232/2 |
| 2010 | 60 | 164.8 | 54.8% | 9 | Highest CSK 246/5 |
| 2009 | 57 played of 59 scheduled | 150.5 | 50.9% | 1 | Highest RR 211/4 |
| 2008 | 58 played of 59 scheduled | 163.0 | 58.8% | 11 | Highest CSK 240/5 |
M: played / scheduled where matches were abandoned.
Colour (Avg 1st, RR, Bdry %): each column's top three seasons, deepest = highest.
What each column means and how it is counted: Query notes.
2026 Was the IPL's Fastest-Scoring Season, at 9.88 Runs an Over
The average first-innings score in 2026 was 195.8, the highest of any IPL season, up from 163.0 in 2008. Across both innings, the scoring rate has climbed every season since 2021, from 8.05 to 9.88 runs an over. The 2009 season, the IPL's second, had both the lowest average first-innings score, 150.5, and the slowest scoring rate, 7.48 runs an over, of any IPL season.
The 2026 season produced 65 totals of 200-plus in 74 matches, more than the first nine seasons put together, 57 in 2008–2016. Boundaries made up 65.2% of all runs, the highest share in any IPL season. Sixes alone brought in 47.8% of the season's boundary runs, up from a low of 32.9% in 2013. In 2026, teams hit 2,332 fours and 1,426 sixes, both the most in any IPL season.
The highest total in IPL history is Sunrisers Hyderabad's 287/3 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2024. Royal Challengers Bengaluru were bowled out for 49 by Kolkata Knight Riders in 2017, the lowest all-out total in IPL history. Punjab Kings' 265/4 against Delhi Capitals, the highest total of 2026, came in a chase.
Since 2022, every season has had ten teams and a 74-match schedule. The biggest season was 2013, with 76 matches played.
IPL Team Win Rates Across All Matches Played
| Team | Seas ↕ | M ↕ | Win % ↕ | Fin ↕ | Titles ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Gujarat Titans | 5 | 77 | 61.0% | 3 | 1 title |
 Chennai Super Kings | 17 | 266 | 55.8% | 10 | 5 titles |
 Mumbai Indians | 19 | 291 | 54.0% | 6 | 5 titles |
 Kolkata Knight Riders | 19 | 278 | 51.4% | 4 | 3 titles |
 Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 19 | 286 | 51.2% | 5 | 2 titles |
 Rajasthan Royals | 17 | 251 | 50.2% | 2 | 1 title |
 Lucknow Super Giants | 5 | 72 | 47.9% | 0 | no titles |
 Punjab Kings | 19 | 277 | 46.9% | 2 | no titles |
 Delhi Capitals | 19 | 280 | 46.6% | 1 | no titles |
 Sunrisers Hyderabad | 19 | 286 | 46.3% | 4 | 2 titles |
 Rising Pune Supergiants ✕ | 2 | 30 | 50.0% | 1 | no titles |
 Gujarat Lions ✕ | 2 | 30 | 43.3% | 0 | no titles |
 Kochi Tuskers Kerala ✕ | 1 | 14 | 42.9% | 0 | no titles |
 Pune Warriors ✕ | 3 | 46 | 26.7% | 0 | no titles |
Win %: 55%+ 50–54.9% below 50%
✕ marks a franchise that no longer plays. No result: DC 3, RCB 3, KKR 2, PBKS 2, RR 2, CSK 1, LSG 1, PWI 1, SRH 1.
Gujarat Titans Have the Best Win Rate in the IPL, With Chennai Super Kings Coming Next
Gujarat Titans have won 61.0% of their IPL matches, the highest win rate among all teams through 2026. That comes from 77 matches in five seasons. Six of the ten current sides have won more than half their matches. Sunrisers Hyderabad have the lowest rate of the current sides, 46.3%.
Chennai Super Kings have reached the playoffs more often than any other side, in 12 of 17 seasons. Gujarat Titans have the best playoff rate, four times in their five seasons. Lucknow Super Giants have made the knockouts twice without reaching a final, losing both matches they played there. Kolkata Knight Riders have the best playoff record, winning 10 of their 15 playoff matches. Delhi Capitals have reached the playoffs in six seasons but won only 2 of their 11 playoff matches. They have played one final.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru are the reigning champions, with back-to-back titles in 2025 and 2026. Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians share the record for titles, with 5 each. Of the two, Chennai Super Kings have the better win rate, 55.8% to Mumbai Indians' 54.0%. Sunrisers Hyderabad have still won two titles, one of them as Deccan Chargers in 2009. Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings have played all 19 seasons without winning the title, and Lucknow Super Giants are still looking for their first after five.
Four franchises no longer play. Rising Pune Supergiants had the best record of them, 15 wins from 30 matches, and reached a final.
Most Successful IPL Captains: The 10 Who Led the Most Matches (2026)
| Captain | M ↕ | Win % ↕ | Titles ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS Dhoni | 234 | 58.4% | 5 titles |
| Rohit Sharma | 158 | 56.3% | 5 titles |
| Gautam Gambhir | 129 | 55.0% | 2 titles |
| Shreyas Iyer | 100 | 58.2% | 1 title |
| David Warner | 83 | 48.2% | 1 title |
| Hardik Pandya | 70 | 52.9% | 1 title |
| Adam Gilchrist | 74 | 47.3% | 1 title |
| Virat Kohli | 142 | 48.9% | no titles |
| Rishabh Pant | 71 | 47.9% | no titles |
| Sanju Samson | 66 | 50.0% | no titles |
Win %: 55%+ 50–54.9% below 50%
The ten captains with the most matches in charge, first listed by
titles, then wins. No result: Virat Kohli 3, Shreyas Iyer 2, MS Dhoni 1.
MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma Share the Record With Five Titles as Captain, but Dhoni Has the Better Win Rate
MS Dhoni has captained more IPL matches than anyone, 234 matches. He and Rohit Sharma have won 5 titles each as captain, and Dhoni has the higher win rate of the two, 58.4% against 56.3%. Dhoni led Chennai Super Kings in ten finals and won five of them between 2010 and 2023. Rohit Sharma never lost a final as captain. He won all five he played for Mumbai Indians between 2013 and 2020.
Nine captains have won the 19 IPL titles, and two of them are not among the ten who led the most matches. Rajat Patidar has won the title in both of his seasons as Royal Challengers Bengaluru captain, in 2025 and 2026. He has won 20 of his 28 matches as captain, a win rate of 71.4%. Shane Warne led Rajasthan Royals to the first IPL title, in 2008. He won 31 of his 55 matches as captain, a win rate of 56.4%.
Shreyas Iyer is the only captain to reach a final with three different franchises. He lost with Delhi Capitals in 2020, won with Kolkata Knight Riders in 2024 and lost with Punjab Kings in 2025. Virat Kohli captained Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 142 matches, the most by any captain who has not won the title. He reached one final, in 2016, and lost it.
Three of the ten captains who led the most matches were still leading a team in 2026: Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer.
Which IPL Grounds Score Highest, and Where Is Chasing or Defending Most Successful?
Stadium ↕ | M ↕ | Avg 1st ↕ | vs Avg ↕ | Chase % ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wankhede · Mumbai · MI | 132 | 173.1 | +3.4 | 54.5% |
| Eden Gardens · Kolkata · KKR | 107 | 171.9 | +1.4 | 57.1%, among the three best grounds to chase at |
| Arun Jaitley · Delhi · DC | 104 | 173.2 | +3.4 | 53.4% |
| M Chinnaswamy · Bengaluru · RCB | 104 | 178.4 | +9.7 | 56.4% |
| MA Chidambaram · Chennai · CSK | 98 | 165.6 | −5.6 | 45.9%, among the three best grounds to bat first |
| Rajiv Gandhi International · Hyderabad · DCH | 90 | 168.7 | −2.8 | 55.1% |
| Sawai Mansingh · Jaipur · RR | 68 | 169.3 | −1.7 | 64.7%, among the three best grounds to chase at |
| Punjab Cricket Association IS… · Mohali | 61 | 169.3 | +5.1 | 55.7% |
| Narendra Modi · Ahmedabad · GT | 53 | 180.7 | 0.0 | 50.9% |
| Maharashtra Cricket… · Pune | 51 | 162.4 | −3.2 | 45.1%, among the three best grounds to bat first |
| Dubai · Dubai | 46 | 163.8 | −1.6 | 50.0% |
| Dr DY Patil Sports Academy · Navi Mumbai | 37 | 159.6 | −7.2 | 54.1% |
| Zayed · Abu Dhabi | 37 | 158.9 | −10.1 | 56.8% |
| Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari… · Lucknow · LSG | 29 | 175.4 | −16.2 | 57.1%, among the three best grounds to chase at |
| Sharjah · Sharjah | 28 | 159.0 | −6.3 | 64.3%, among the three best grounds to chase at |
| Brabourne · Mumbai | 27 | 178.5 | +11.1 | 48.1% |
| Himachal Pradesh Cricket… · Dharamsala · PBKS | 18 | 195.1 | +21.2 | 38.9%, among the three best grounds to bat first |
| Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy… · Visakhapatnam · DC | 17 | 169.5 | −1.3 | 52.9% |
| Maharaja Yadavindra Singh · New Chandigarh · PBKS | 17 | 186.6 | −6.3 | 52.9% |
| Kingsmead · Durban | 15 | 152.0 | +2.1 | 46.7% |
vs Avg: runs above (+) or below (−) the other grounds' first-innings average
in the seasons (years) the ground was used.
Home: the club whose home ground it is now. — = no current home club.
Grounds with 15 or more matches;
16 others (103
matches) are not listed.
Jaipur Is the Best IPL Ground for Batting Second, Dharamsala for Batting First
The Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamsala is the highest-scoring IPL ground, both on its raw first-innings average and against the other grounds in its own seasons. First innings there have averaged 195.1 across 18 matches, 21.2 runs above the other grounds' average in the same seasons. The Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai and the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru have seen the most totals of 200 or more of any IPL ground, 39 each.
A raw average can flatter a newer ground, because IPL scoring has risen over the years. The Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in New Chandigarh averages 186.6 in the first innings, but all its matches came from 2024 to 2026, and against the other grounds in those seasons it sits 6.3 runs lower. The Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow sits furthest below, at 16.2 runs under the other grounds' first-innings average in its seasons.
Across the league, the side batting second has won 54.5% of decided matches, which leaves the side batting first, defending a total, the other 45.5%. The Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur is the best ground to chase at, with 44 successful run chases from 68 decided matches, 64.7% of them. Batting first has the better record at five of the 20 grounds listed, and Dharamsala is the best ground to set a total and defend it, where the side batting first has won 11 of 18. So Dharamsala is a first-innings paradise: the ground where first innings score highest is also the one where the side batting first wins most often.
Does Winning the Toss Win IPL Matches, and Do Toss Winners Bat or Field First?
Season ↕ | M ↕ | Chose Field ↕ | Toss Win % ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 74 | 82.4% | 50.7% |
| 2025 | 73 | 82.2% | 60.6% |
| 2024 | 71 | 73.2% | 43.7% |
| 2023 | 74 | 71.6% | 46.6% |
| 2022 | 74 | 79.7% | 48.6% |
| 2021 | 60 | 73.3% | 58.3% |
| 2020 | 60 | 55.0% | 41.7% |
| 2019 | 60 | 83.3% | 61.0% |
| 2018 | 60 | 83.3% | 53.3% |
| 2017 | 59 | 81.4% | 57.6% |
| 2016 | 60 | 81.7% | 56.7% |
| 2015 | 59 | 57.6% | 49.1% |
| 2014 | 60 | 68.3% | 50.0% |
| 2013 | 76 | 40.8% | 47.4% |
| 2012 | 74 | 50.0% | 44.6% |
| 2011 | 73 | 65.8% | 52.8% |
| 2010 | 60 | 35.0% | 51.7% |
| 2009 | 57 | 38.6% | 57.9% |
| 2008 | 58 | 55.2% | 48.3% |
Toss Winners Have Won 51.4% of Decided IPL Matches
Winning the toss has made little difference in the IPL. Toss winners have won 634 of 1,234 decided matches, 51.4%. That is only 1.4 percentage points more than a coin would give. Season by season it has gone both ways: the side that won the toss won more than half its matches in 10 of the 19 seasons, fewer than half in 8 and exactly half in 2014. Even the seasons furthest from half, 61.0% in 2019 and 41.7% in 2020, are each within the range chance alone gives over a season's matches.
Choosing to field is now the norm. Over the first six seasons the choice was mixed, with a low of 35.0% choosing to field in 2010, but field has been the majority choice in every season since 2014. Across all 1,242 matches, toss winners have chosen to field in 825, 66.4%. In 2026, 82.4% of them elected to field.
When toss winners chose to field, they have won 446 of the 820 that were decided, 54.4%. When they chose to bat, they have won 188 of 414, 45.4%, fewer than half. The gap of 9.0 percentage points between the two records is wider than chance alone would explain.
Query Notes
- Matches (M): every match in which at least one ball was bowled. A match abandoned before a ball was bowled is left out. A match that started but ended with no result is counted.
- Win %: calculated from decided matches, so a match with no result counts in M but not in Win %.
- Super Over: a tie decided by a Super Over counts as a win for the side that won it. Cricinfo lists these matches as ties, so our win and loss counts can differ from Cricinfo's.
- First-innings average (Avg 1st): counts finished innings only, those scheduled for 20 overs that lasted all 20 or ended with all ten wickets down. An innings shortened or stopped by rain is left out.
- Run rate (RR): runs per over, first and second innings together. Every innings played counts, including those shortened by rain.
- Boundary share (Bdry %): runs from fours and sixes as a share of all runs, extras included. Every innings played counts, including those shortened by rain.
- 200+: team totals of 200 or more, batting first or chasing.
- Home: from our own list of the grounds each club has used as home, and in which seasons. The fixture list's home-team label is not used, because it also marks neutral venues and relocated seasons as home.
- Stadium: a stadium that was renamed counts once, listed under its latest name.
- vs Avg: how far a ground's first-innings average sits above (+) or below (−) the other grounds' first-innings average in the seasons it was used. Each innings is compared with the average of every other ground that season, so a ground is never part of its own yardstick, and a ground used only in high-scoring years is not ranked above one used in lower-scoring years just because of when its matches were played. Two grounds with the same raw average can therefore have different vs Avg figures.
- Chase %: matches won by the side batting second, as a share of decided matches at the ground. The rest were won by the side batting first, defending a total. Which side batted first comes from the scorecard, never the toss. Matches shortened by rain are included.
- Chose Field: the share of matches in which the side that won the toss chose to field first.
- Toss Win %: how often the side that won the toss went on to win the match, as a share of decided matches.
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: includes Deccan Chargers era (2008–2012). The 2009 title was won as Deccan Chargers. Cricinfo lists the two franchises separately. The captains table shows Deccan Chargers under its own name.