Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium is one of the busiest T20 grounds in Pakistan. Between March 2012 and October 2026 it staged 249 men’s T20 fixtures: Pakistan Super League games, the National T20 Cup and other domestic tournaments, and 19 T20 internationals. Seven were abandoned without a result, so 242 were actually played.
The records on this page cover every one of them, up to the third T20I between Pakistan and Sri Lanka on 13 October 2026. No PSL matches were played here in 2026, because the Pakistan Cricket Board moved the whole season to Lahore and Karachi in March, so that October series was the ground’s only T20 cricket of the year. Pakistan took it 2-1: they won the first match by four wickets and the second by 82 runs, with Maaz Sadaqat making 96, before Sri Lanka won the third by eight wickets, Kusal Mendis finishing on 87 not out.
If you only want the T20I numbers, or the Test and ODI records, they are in our Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium pitch report.
Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium T20 records at a glance
| Record | Holder | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Highest total | Quetta Gladiators 263/3 | v Islamabad United, PSL, 7 May 2025 |
| Lowest total | Larkana Region 65 | v AJK Region, National T20 Cup, 2 September 2015 |
| Highest successful chase | Multan Sultans 244/6 | v Peshawar Zalmi, PSL, 10 March 2023 |
| Highest individual score | Kamran Akmal 150* (71 balls) | Lahore Whites v Islamabad, National T20 Cup, 24 November 2017 |
| Best bowling | Agha Salman 5/10 | Southern Punjab v Central Punjab, National T20 Cup, 2 September 2022 |
| Most runs | Babar Azam 1,748 | 48 matches, average 47.24, 2 hundreds |
| Most wickets | Wahab Riaz 57 | 45 matches, average 19.84 |
| Highest partnership | Kamran Akmal and Salman Butt 209* | 1st wicket, Lahore Whites v Islamabad, 24 November 2017 |
Highest team totals
The ground record changed hands in the 2025 PSL. On 7 May 2025 Quetta Gladiators made 263 for 3 against Islamabad United, one run more than Multan Sultans’ 262 for 3 in 2023, and it came with two hundreds in the same innings: Rilee Rossouw 104 off 46 balls and Hasan Nawaz 100 not out off 45. Gladiators won by 109 runs.
| Team | Score | Against | Date | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quetta Gladiators | 263/3 | Islamabad United | 7 May 2025 | Won by 109 runs |
| Multan Sultans | 262/3 | Quetta Gladiators | 11 Mar 2023 | Won by 9 runs |
| Quetta Gladiators | 253/8 | Multan Sultans | 11 Mar 2023 | Lost by 9 runs |
| Islamabad United | 251/5 | Karachi Kings | 19 May 2025 | Won by 79 runs |
| Multan Sultans | 244/6 | Peshawar Zalmi | 10 Mar 2023 | Won by 4 wickets |
The best run-fest the ground has seen came over four days of the 2023 PSL. On 8 March Peshawar Zalmi made 240 for 2, with Babar Azam scoring 115, and still lost: Quetta Gladiators chased it down for the loss of two wickets, Jason Roy finishing on 145 not out off 63 balls. Two days later Zalmi made 242 for 6 and lost again, this time to Multan Sultans, who got to 244 for 6 with Rilee Rossouw scoring 121 off 51. That 244 is still the highest successful chase at the ground. The next day Sultans made 262 for 3 against Gladiators, built on Usman Khan’s 120 off 43 balls, and Gladiators replied with 253 for 8: 515 runs in one match, and Gladiators were only nine short.
Lowest team totals
Larkana Region’s 65 all out in 13.4 overs is still the lowest total here. Chasing 124 against AJK Region in the National T20 Cup in September 2015, they lost by 58 runs. The next lowest came a day earlier in the same tournament, when AJK Region were bowled out for 69 by Lahore Blues.
| Team | Score | Overs | Against | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larkana Region | 65 | 13.4 | AJK Region | 2 Sep 2015 |
| AJK Region | 69 | 14.4 | Lahore Blues | 1 Sep 2015 |
| Dolphins | 71 | 16.0 | Lions | 20 Dec 2024 |
| Peshawar Panthers | 79 | 19.3 | Lahore Lions | 27 Mar 2012 |
| Central Punjab | 79 | 14.3 | Southern Punjab | 2 Sep 2022 |
Most runs in T20 cricket at Rawalpindi
Babar Azam is well clear at the top with 1,748 runs in 48 matches at an average of 47.24, for Pakistan, Peshawar Zalmi, Karachi Kings and several domestic sides. His 115 for Zalmi in 2023 is one of his two T20 hundreds at the ground. Sahibzada Farhan, an Islamabad United regular, is second with 1,552 after three more T20Is here in October 2026, and Kamran Akmal, who led this list for years, is now sixth.
| Player | Matches | Runs | Average | 100s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babar Azam | 48 | 1,748 | 47.24 | 2 |
| Sahibzada Farhan | 44 | 1,552 | 37.85 | 1 |
| Fakhar Zaman | 50 | 1,321 | 29.35 | 1 |
| Hussain Talat | 49 | 1,165 | 41.60 | 1 |
| Iftikhar Ahmed | 60 | 1,129 | 26.25 | 0 |
| Kamran Akmal | 34 | 1,105 | 34.53 | 2 |
| Imam-ul-Haq | 36 | 1,094 | 36.46 | 0 |
Highest individual scores
Kamran Akmal’s 150 not out off 71 balls, with 14 fours and 12 sixes, for Lahore Whites against Islamabad in November 2017 is still the highest T20 score at the ground. He and Salman Butt put on 209 without being separated, Lahore Whites finished on 209 for 0, and Islamabad managed 100 in reply. Rilee Rossouw has two T20 hundreds here, for different franchises: 121 for Multan Sultans in 2023 and 104 for Quetta Gladiators in 2025.
| Batter | Score | Balls | For | Against | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamran Akmal | 150* | 71 | Lahore Whites | Islamabad | 24 Nov 2017 |
| Jason Roy | 145* | 63 | Quetta Gladiators | Peshawar Zalmi | 8 Mar 2023 |
| Mukhtar Ahmed | 123 | 67 | Sialkot Region | Karachi Whites | 8 Sep 2015 |
| Rilee Rossouw | 121 | 51 | Multan Sultans | Peshawar Zalmi | 10 Mar 2023 |
| Usman Khan | 120 | 43 | Multan Sultans | Quetta Gladiators | 11 Mar 2023 |
Most wickets in T20 cricket at Rawalpindi
Left-arm quick Wahab Riaz still leads with 57 wickets in 45 matches at 19.84, taken between 2012 and 2023, with a best of 5 for 21 for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa against Northern in 2020. Anwar Ali is second on 49. The bowler closing in fastest is Shaheen Shah Afridi: 43 wickets in only 27 matches, at the best average in the top ten.
| Bowler | Matches | Wickets | Average | Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wahab Riaz | 45 | 57 | 19.84 | 5/21 |
| Anwar Ali | 44 | 49 | 26.44 | 4/30 |
| Faheem Ashraf | 59 | 44 | 36.93 | 4/18 |
| Shaheen Shah Afridi | 27 | 43 | 18.44 | 4/31 |
| Shadab Khan | 48 | 41 | 28.19 | 4/45 |
Best bowling figures
Only seven bowlers have taken five wickets in a T20 innings at Rawalpindi, and nobody has taken six. The best is off-spinner Agha Salman’s 5 for 10 in three overs for Southern Punjab in the National T20 Cup in September 2022: set 166 to win, Central Punjab were bowled out for 79 and lost by 86 runs. The most recent is Afaq Afridi’s 5 for 18 for Lions in December 2024, when Dolphins were bowled out for 71.
| Bowler | Figures | For | Against | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agha Salman | 5/10 | Southern Punjab | Central Punjab | 2 Sep 2022 |
| Afaq Afridi | 5/18 | Lions | Dolphins | 20 Dec 2024 |
| Wahab Riaz | 5/21 | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Northern | 16 Oct 2020 |
| Zia-ul-Haq | 5/23 | Lahore Lions | Wolves | 29 Mar 2012 |
| Khalid Usman | 5/26 | Abbottabad | Lahore Whites | 9 Sep 2015 |
Highest partnerships
Kamran Akmal and Salman Butt hold the top two: the unbroken 209 in 2017 and 163, also for the first wicket, for Lahore Whites against Lahore Blues in 2016. The best PSL stands here are 162s. Saim Ayub and Babar Azam put on 162 for Zalmi’s first wicket in March 2023, and David Warner and James Vince added 162 for the second wicket for Karachi Kings against Zalmi in May 2025.
About the ground
Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium replaced the Pindi Club Ground as the city’s international venue in 1992. Its first international was an ODI on 19 January 1992, which Pakistan won by 117 runs against Sri Lanka, and its first Test followed in December 1993, a 52-run win over Zimbabwe. T20 internationals came much later: the first was Pakistan v Zimbabwe on 7 November 2020, and Pakistan won by six wickets. The capacity is usually given as 15,000. It is home to Islamabad United and Rawalpindiz in the PSL and to Northern in domestic cricket.
Records from ESPNcricinfo’s Statsguru, all men’s T20 matches at the ground to 13 October 2026.
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