Arun Jaitley Stadium IPL records: the biggest numbers from Delhi Capitals’ home

Delhi’s Arun Jaitley Stadium has staged IPL cricket since the league’s first season, and the Arun Jaitley Stadium IPL records now stretch from a 66 all out to the biggest successful chase the tournament has ever produced. Sunrisers Hyderabad hold the highest total at the ground with 278 for 3. Delhi own the lowest, bowled out for 66. KL Rahul has the largest individual score with 152 not out, Lasith Malinga the best bowling figures with 5 for 13, and Punjab Kings the highest successful chase, 265, which is also a league record.

The ground itself

The stadium sits in central Delhi and dates back to 1883, which makes it one of the oldest cricket grounds in the country still hosting international matches. For most of its life it was known as the Feroz Shah Kotla, after the fourteenth-century fort next door, built when Sultan Feroz Shah Tughlaq founded the city of Ferozabad on this land in 1354. The Delhi and District Cricket Association renamed the stadium on 12 September 2019, in memory of Arun Jaitley, the former union minister and DDCA president who had died 19 days earlier.

Its Test history is heavier than its IPL history. Anil Kumble took all ten wickets in an innings here against Pakistan on 7 February 1999, figures of 10 for 74 that have only been matched twice in the whole of Test cricket, by Jim Laker before him and Ajaz Patel after.

The IPL side of the story is less decorated. Delhi have played here as the Daredevils and, since 2019, as the Capitals, and they remain one of the few original franchises never to have won the title.

Highest team total: Sunrisers Hyderabad 278 for 3

The record was set on 25 May 2025, when Sunrisers Hyderabad made 278 for 3 against Kolkata Knight Riders. Heinrich Klaasen was the main reason, hitting 105 not out from 39 balls, with Travis Head making 76 from 40 and Abhishek Sharma 32 from 16.

Kolkata never got close. They were bowled out for 168 in 18.4 overs and lost by 110 runs. Both sides had already been knocked out of the playoff race, which gave the innings a strange, weightless quality for a score that size.

Delhi’s own 264 for 2 against Punjab Kings on 25 April 2026 sits behind it, with Punjab’s reply that night in between. All three of the ground’s biggest totals, in other words, have been made since 2025. The fourth is still Delhi Daredevils’ 231 for 4 against Kings XI Punjab in April 2011, which stood as the venue record for fourteen years.

Lowest team total: Delhi Daredevils 66

On 6 May 2017 Mumbai Indians made 212 for 3 and then dismissed Delhi Daredevils for 66 in 13.4 overs. The margin, 146 runs, was the biggest win by runs in IPL history at the time.

Delhi’s batting had been fragile all season. Six days earlier they had been bowled out for 67 by Kings XI Punjab in Mohali, so the 66 was not an isolated collapse so much as the bottom of a run.

Highest individual score: KL Rahul’s 152 not out

Rahul’s innings on 25 April 2026 rewrote a record that had stood untouched for years. He made 152 not out from 67 balls against Punjab Kings with 16 fours and nine sixes, reaching his hundred in 47 deliveries, the fastest century any Delhi batter has made in the IPL. It was also the first time an Indian batter had made 150 in the league, and it sits third on the all-time IPL list behind Chris Gayle’s 175 not out and Brendon McCullum’s 158 not out.

Before that the mark had been shared. Chris Gayle hit 128 not out from 62 balls for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Delhi Daredevils in May 2012, and Rishabh Pant matched the score exactly, 128 not out from 63 balls, for Delhi against Sunrisers Hyderabad in May 2018. Pant remains the ground’s most prolific six-hitter in the league.

Best bowling figures: Lasith Malinga’s 5 for 13

Malinga bowled Mumbai Indians to an eight-wicket win on 10 April 2011, taking 5 for 13 as Delhi Daredevils were dismissed for 95. The figures are still the best returned at the venue in the IPL, and they have now survived fifteen seasons of increasingly brutal batting.

The leading wicket-taker at the ground is Amit Mishra, with 58, a tally built over a long stretch of his career bowling leg spin here for Delhi. That a spinner sits clear at the top says something about how much the surface has rewarded slower bowling even as the totals have climbed.

Highest successful chase: Punjab Kings’ 265

This is the innings the ground will be remembered for. On 25 April 2026 Delhi Capitals batted first and made 264 for 2. Rahul’s 152 not out was the centrepiece, and his second-wicket stand of 220 with Nitish Rana, who made 91 from 44 balls, is the second-highest partnership for any wicket in IPL history, behind only the 229 Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers put on against Gujarat Lions in May 2016. That was a second-wicket stand too.

264 for 2 should have been the end of it. Punjab took 116 runs off the powerplay instead. Prabhsimran Singh made 76 from 26 balls and Priyansh Arya 43 from 17, and by the time either was dismissed the chase had stopped looking impossible. Shreyas Iyer finished it with 71 not out from 36 balls, and Punjab got home with seven balls to spare, winning by six wickets.

The target of 265 is the highest any side has successfully chased in the IPL. The previous record, 262, also belonged to Punjab, set against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens in April 2024.

Is it a batting track?

It has become one, but it did not start that way. For most of its IPL life the Arun Jaitley Stadium was a middling-scoring ground where a first-innings total around 165 was defendable and spinners had a real say in the middle overs. The outfield is quick and the square boundaries are not especially long, but the pitch tended to grip rather than skid.

Recent seasons have pulled the average up sharply, and the 265 chase happened on a surface that offered the bowlers almost nothing. Results across the ground’s IPL history have split close to evenly between sides batting first and sides chasing, so captains winning the toss here have never had an obvious default.

The 66 all out is worth keeping in view alongside all of that. When there has been early movement, Delhi’s pitch has still been capable of ending an innings before the fourteenth over.

What the Arun Jaitley Stadium IPL records add up to

Delhi’s record book reads like two different grounds stitched together. One is the venue of Malinga’s 5 for 13 and a 66 all out, a place where a bowler could still win a Twenty20 match on his own. The other is the venue of 278 for 3 and a chase of 265, and it has arrived almost entirely in the last two seasons.

What has not changed is the absence of a trophy. Delhi have been playing here since the league began and still have no title to show for it, and the ground’s two biggest nights, the 278 and the 265, both belonged to the visitors.

For the international side of the same venue, our Arun Jaitley Stadium T20I records page covers the ground’s Twenty20 international history. The equivalent pages for the Narendra Modi Stadium, Chepauk and Sawai Mansingh Stadium make for a useful comparison, and our wider T20 cricket records list puts Delhi’s numbers against the format as a whole.

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