Narendra Modi Stadium IPL records: the biggest numbers from the world’s largest cricket ground

Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium is the biggest cricket ground on the planet, and since Gujarat Titans moved in for the 2022 season it has become one of the league’s most important venues. The Narendra Modi Stadium IPL records already cover both extremes. Punjab Kings own the highest total made here, 243 for 5. Sunrisers Hyderabad own the lowest, bowled out for 86. Shubman Gill has the largest individual score with 129, Mohit Sharma the best bowling figures with 5 for 10, and Kolkata Knight Riders the highest successful chase, 205, in a game nobody who watched it has managed to forget.

The ground itself

The stadium sits in Motera, in the north of Ahmedabad. It opened in 1982 as the Sardar Patel Stadium and held roughly 49,000 people. The Gujarat Cricket Association eventually knocked it down and rebuilt it from the ground up, and the new version was inaugurated in February 2020 with a capacity of 132,000. That makes it the largest cricket stadium in the world, and the largest stadium of any sort by seats.

Scale has brought status with it. Ahmedabad has staged four IPL finals in five seasons, in 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026, with only the 2024 decider going elsewhere, to Chepauk in Chennai. Gujarat Titans have called the ground home since the franchise was created, and they won the title in their first season there.

Highest team total: Punjab Kings 243 for 5

The record was set on 25 March 2025, when Punjab Kings piled up 243 for 5 against Gujarat Titans. Shreyas Iyer did the bulk of it with 97 not out from 42 balls, the highest IPL score of his career, and he had help at both ends. Debutant Priyansh Arya struck 47 from 23 and Shashank Singh hit 44 from 16.

What followed was almost as remarkable. Gujarat did not fold. Sai Sudharsan made 74, Jos Buttler 54 and Sherfane Rutherford 46, and the chase reached 232 for 5 before it ran out of deliveries. Punjab won by 11 runs in a match that produced 475 runs across 40 overs.

Behind that sits Gujarat’s own 233 for 3 against Mumbai Indians in Qualifier 2 of the 2023 season, and the 214 for 4 they posted in the 2023 final.

Lowest team total: Sunrisers Hyderabad 86

The other end of the range is more recent. On 12 May 2026, chasing 169 against Gujarat Titans, Sunrisers Hyderabad were bowled out for 86 in 14.5 overs. Mohammed Siraj and Kagiso Rabada tore through the top order on a surface offering the seamers more than usual, and Jason Holder took three wickets to finish off the middle. Gujarat won by 82 runs.

Before that, the lowest score at the ground belonged to Gujarat themselves. They were dismissed for 89 by Delhi Capitals on 17 April 2024, with Rashid Khan top-scoring on 31 and Mukesh Kumar taking 3 for 14. Delhi knocked off the runs with 67 balls to spare.

Highest individual score: Shubman Gill’s 129

Gill’s innings on 26 May 2023 remains the biggest by any batter at the venue in the IPL. Playing Qualifier 2 against Mumbai Indians, he made 129 from 60 balls with seven fours and ten sixes as Gujarat reached 233 for 3. At the time it was the highest score anyone had made in an IPL playoff match, passing Virender Sehwag’s 122.

Gill is also the leading run-scorer at the ground across all IPL cricket, with Sai Sudharsan not far behind him. Neither is a surprise given both have spent their franchise careers batting on it.

Best bowling figures: Mohit Sharma’s 5 for 10

The best bowling performance came in the same match, a few hours after Gill’s hundred. Mumbai were 149 for 4 after 14 overs and still in the contest. Mohit Sharma then returned figures of 5 for 10 from 2.2 overs, and Mumbai were all out for 171 inside 19 overs. Gujarat won by 62 runs and went to the final.

Rashid Khan holds the record for most IPL wickets at the ground, with 34, ahead of Mohit Sharma on 29.

Highest successful chase: 205, and five sixes

This is the one people bring up first. On 9 April 2023, Gujarat Titans made 204 for 4, built on Vijay Shankar’s unbeaten 63 and Sai Sudharsan’s 53. Kolkata Knight Riders needed 205 to win.

Venkatesh Iyer and captain Nitish Rana put on 100 in 9.1 overs, Iyer making 83 from 40 and Rana 45. Alzarri Joseph then removed both, Rashid Khan took a hat-trick, and the chase looked finished. Kolkata came to the final over needing 29 from Yash Dayal. Umesh Yadav took a single off the first ball, and Rinku Singh hit the remaining five deliveries for six. Kolkata finished on 207 for 7 and won by three wickets, with Rinku unbeaten on 48 from 21 balls.

It is still the highest total successfully chased at the ground in the IPL, and it is difficult to imagine a more dramatic way for that record to have been set.

Is it a batting track?

Mostly, yes, though not in the runaway way the 243 suggests. The pitch offers true bounce and rewards batters who play straight, and a first-innings score of 170 or more is generally treated as competitive rather than commanding. Boundaries on the square side are long, which takes some of the easy scoring away from spinners’ pace off the ball.

Results have split close to evenly between sides batting first and sides chasing, with the chasing team holding a slight edge overall. Evening dew is the usual reason captains give for bowling first, though Ahmedabad in April and May gets less of it than several other Indian venues. The SRH collapse in 2026 is the reminder that this is not a road: when there is early movement, the seamers can run through a side quickly.

The finals

Four title matches have been played here. In 2022 Gujarat Titans beat Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets, Rajasthan making 130 for 9 and Gujarat replying with 133 for 3, with Hardik Pandya named player of the match as the new franchise won at the first attempt.

The 2023 final needed the reserve day after rain washed out 28 May. Gujarat made 214 for 4, with Sai Sudharsan hitting 96 from 47 balls and Wriddhiman Saha 54, and rain then cut Chennai Super Kings’ target to 171 from 15 overs under DLS. Ravindra Jadeja hit a six and a four from the last two balls to win it by five wickets and hand Chennai a fifth title.

In 2025, Royal Challengers Bengaluru finally got there, defending 190 for 9 against Punjab Kings, who finished on 184 for 7. The margin was six runs, and Krunal Pandya took the player of the match award in a game that ended an eighteen-season wait.

The 2026 final, on 31 May, went to Bengaluru again. Gujarat Titans posted 155 for 8 and Bengaluru chased it down at 161 for 5 with twelve balls to spare, Virat Kohli making 75 not out from 42 balls to take the player of the match award and a second successive title.

What the Narendra Modi Stadium IPL records add up to

Ahmedabad’s numbers read differently from the traditional IPL strongholds. There is no equivalent of Chepauk’s spin-first history here, and no long IPL past at all, since the rebuilt ground only entered the league properly in 2022. What it has instead is a short, dense record full of extremes: the biggest playoff innings the tournament had seen, a five-wicket haul that cost ten runs, and the most famous last over in IPL history.

For the wider picture at the same ground, our Narendra Modi Stadium T20 records page covers the international side of its history. The venue records for Chepauk and Sawai Mansingh Stadium make for a useful contrast, and the broader T20 cricket records list puts these numbers against the format as a whole.

More cricket features from SportsAdda