Sawai Mansingh Stadium IPL records: the biggest numbers from Rajasthan Royals’ Jaipur home
Rajasthan Royals have called the Jaipur ground home since the IPL began. These are the biggest totals, best figures and standout knocks in the venue’s league history, and what they say about the pitch.
Jul 23, 2026
The Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur has been Rajasthan Royals’ fortress since the very first IPL in 2008, and the ground’s IPL records read like a scrapbook of the league’s wildest days. Punjab Kings’ 219 for 5 is the biggest total anyone has managed here, Rajasthan’s own 59 all out is the lowest, Virat Kohli owns the highest individual score, and Sohail Tanvir’s opening-season six-for still tops the bowling charts more than a decade and a half later. Here is the full breakdown of the Sawai Mansingh Stadium IPL records, and what the numbers say about how the pitch actually plays.
A quick look at the venue
The stadium was built in 1969 and named after Sawai Man Singh II, the last ruling Maharaja of Jaipur. It is owned by the Rajasthan government, run by the Rajasthan Cricket Association, and holds somewhere around 30,000 people on a full night. Long before the IPL arrived it staged matches at the 1996 World Cup, but it is the Royals who turned it into a proper home. Rajasthan have played out of Jaipur since the league began, and it was here on 21 April 2008 that they opened their home account, chasing down 166 to beat Kings XI Punjab by six wickets on the way to winning that first title.
The playing surface has always leaned towards batting, though it is not the flattest deck in the league. The ball comes on nicely under lights, the outfield is quick, and totals in the 170s are par rather than exceptional. What follows are the standout marks it has produced.
What is the highest IPL total at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium?
The highest team total in an IPL match at the ground is Punjab Kings’ 219 for 5, set against Rajasthan Royals in 2025. It edged past a cluster of 200-plus scores the venue had thrown up over the years and confirmed what the pitch report has said for a while: get in early, and a batting side can cash in heavily here.
The chasing records tell the same story. In 2023 Rajasthan piled up 214 for 2 batting first and still lost, Sunrisers Hyderabad hauling in the target with 217 for 6 and a six off the final ball. That remains the highest successful run chase the ground has seen, and it is a useful warning to any captain who thinks 210 is safe in Jaipur.
The lowest score, and the night the game flipped
For all the big hitting, the lowest IPL total at the venue belongs to the home side. Rajasthan Royals were bowled out for 59 chasing Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2023, folding in 10.3 overs as the spinners took over and handing RCB a 112-run win. It is the sort of collapse that reminds you the surface is not a guaranteed feather bed, and that a Jaipur night can turn on a couple of quick wickets.
Highest individual score and best bowling figures
The highest individual score in an IPL game here is Virat Kohli’s unbeaten 113 off 72 balls for Royal Challengers Bengaluru against Rajasthan on 6 April 2024. It was vintage Kohli, paced rather than blasted, and it carried RCB to a total the Royals could not track down.
The best bowling figures are older and, in their way, more famous. Sohail Tanvir’s 6 for 14 against Chennai Super Kings in that inaugural 2008 season is still the finest spell the ground has produced in the IPL, a return that helped announce Rajasthan as the tournament’s first champions. No bowler has bettered it in every season since.
Sawai Mansingh Stadium IPL records at a glance
| Record | Holder | Figure |
| Highest team total | Punjab Kings v Rajasthan Royals (2025) | 219/5 |
| Lowest team total | Rajasthan Royals v RCB (2023) | 59 all out |
| Highest individual score | Virat Kohli, RCB v RR (2024) | 113 not out |
| Best bowling figures | Sohail Tanvir, RR v CSK (2008) | 6/14 |
| Highest successful chase | Sunrisers Hyderabad v RR (2023) | 217/6 |
| Most runs at the venue | Ajinkya Rahane | 1,115 |
Do teams bat first or chase in Jaipur?
If there is one number that should shape team talks at the toss, it is this one. Across the ground’s IPL history, roughly two in every three completed matches have been won by the side batting second. The average first-innings score sits in the mid-160s, which is gettable under lights when the ball skids on and the dew, when it lands, takes the sting out of the spinners. Winning the toss and bowling first has become the default call in Jaipur, and the data backs the instinct.
That does not make batting first a losing move. Punjab’s 219 and Rajasthan’s 214 both came from teams setting a target, and a big enough score still wins. But the margin for error is thin, and a par total is far more likely to be run down here than defended.
The names on the honours board
Ajinkya Rahane, who anchored Rajasthan’s top order for years, is the leading run-scorer in IPL cricket at the ground with 1,115 runs, a tally built on the kind of patient starts the surface rewards. Among the bowlers, Siddharth Trivedi is the ground’s most successful operator across its T20 history, his 36 wickets a product of six seasons bending his back for the Royals at home. Between them they are as close as Jaipur has to house players, and their names sit at the top of the venue’s charts for good reason.
For the wider context behind these marks, our guide to the biggest T20 cricket records covers the all-format landmarks, while the Raipur Cricket Stadium records make for a neat comparison with another of India’s newer IPL homes.