Sawai Mansingh Stadium IPL Records: Highest Scores & Stats

Batting Records — Big Scores on a Balanced Surface

Punjab Kings — 219/5: The Highest Total at Jaipur (IPL 2025)

Punjab Kings posted the highest team total in Sawai Mansingh Stadium IPL history with 219/5 against Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2025. The innings demonstrated that the Jaipur surface can absolutely yield big scores, but it typically requires a batter to get through the first powerplay before accelerating, rather than launching from ball one as at Chinnaswamy or Uppal. PBKS’s ability to construct a substantial total here rather than relying on frenetic start-to-finish hitting reflects the ground’s character: it rewards innings that build intelligently.

The previous highest total at this venue stood for several seasons before being broken, showing how different Jaipur is from the highest scoring IPL venues like Chinnaswamy, Wankhede, and Uppal. 

Virat Kohli — 113* (72 balls): Highest Individual Score

Virat Kohli’s unbeaten 113 off 72 balls for RCB against Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2024 is the highest individual score in IPL history at this venue. Kohli’s innings was a masterclass in reading a balanced surface: disciplined in the first six overs against swing and seam, dominant through the middle overs once the pitch flattened, and calculated in the death rather than purely aggressive. It remains the only century in IPL history at this ground scored predominantly through timing and placement rather than brute power.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi — Century in 35 Balls (IPL 2025)

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s 35-ball century at Sawai Mansingh Stadium showed why he is already among the most explosive young batters and one of the leaders for the highest strike rate in IPL history. The 15-year-old RR opener exploited the powerplay conditions to maximum effect, clearing long boundaries that traditionally restrict six-hitting at this ground, and putting Jaipur’s crowd on their feet in an innings that reframed expectations of what is achievable on this surface.

Other Key Batting Milestones

• Ajinkya Rahane leads all run-scorers at this venue with 1,115 runs, more than any other batter in the stadium’s IPL history, built on consistent, partnership-oriented batting across multiple RR seasons
• Only five centuries have been scored in the stadium’s entire IPL history, compared to eight at Chinnaswamy, reflecting the ground’s balanced nature
• Shane Watson is the leading six-hitter at the venue, combining aggressive power hitting in the middle and lower order across his years with RR
• Five centuries and 75 half-centuries have been recorded across 64+ matches, underlining that batting at Sawai Mansingh is genuinely challenging, big scores here carry weight

Bowling Records — Where Discipline Wins Matches

Sohail Tanvir — 6/14: IPL’s First-Ever Six-Wicket Haul

Sohail Tanvir’s 6/14 against Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2008 remains one of the best bowling performances in IPL history and still stands as the greatest spell at Sawai Mansingh Stadium.  The Pakistani left-arm seamer exploited early swing and variable seam movement at a venue where the surface retains more pace and lateral movement than most other IPL grounds in April and May. His figures of 6/14 from four overs at an economy of 3.50 remain extraordinary even by modern IPL standards.

Siddharth Trivedi — 36 Wickets: Venue’s Leading Wicket-Taker

Siddharth Trivedi stands alone at the top of the Sawai Mansingh Stadium bowling charts with 36 IPL wickets. The RR seamer’s dominance at this ground is a direct reflection of how disciplined seam bowling, hitting good lengths consistently, using the crease, and varying pace, rewards bowlers on a surface that offers more assistance than flat-pitch venues. Trivedi’s deep understanding of Jaipur conditions, honed across multiple RR home seasons, made him the most reliable bowling option the franchise had on their own turf.

Shane Warne, who led RR to the 2008 IPL title, picked up 20 wickets at this ground — the most by a spinner at the venue — using his legendary leg-spin variations on a surface where spin finds grip as conditions dry out through the middle overs.

Key bowling patterns at Sawai Mansingh:

• Total wickets taken at the venue: 559 across 64 matches, a higher rate than most IPL grounds.
• Economy rate average of 8.52, lower than Chinnaswamy (15 sixes/match average) and comparable to Uppal.
• Dismissal breakdown favours caught (273 of 559 dismissals), confirming that bowlers who generate edges and false shots through pace variations and seam movement are more effective than those relying purely on power-play short-pitch deliveries.
• 30.23% dot-ball percentage, one of the higher figures across IPL venues, confirming that Jaipur rewards disciplined bowling more than most grounds.

Toss, Dew & the Chasing Advantage at Jaipur

The single most consistent tactical pattern at Sawai Mansingh Stadium is the advantage held by teams batting second. Teams chasing have won 64.62% of all IPL matches at this venue, one of the highest chase-win rates across any ground in the tournament.

Two primary factors drive this:

• Dew in night matches: Jaipur’s dry climate means dew accumulates on the outfield and pitch surface as night progresses, reducing spin and making it significantly easier to stroke the ball through the second half of the game. Spinners who were effective in the first innings find their grip reduced, and outswing that threatened the powerplay openers carries less danger by the 12th over
• Second-innings flattening: The Sawai Mansingh surface traditionally gets better for batting as it settles through the first innings, meaning the chasing team faces a more predictable surface than the side batting first

In IPL 2026, the chasing advantage held consistent: SRH chased down a formidable 229 at this venue with nine balls to spare, reinforcing the venue’s second-innings statistical bias. Teams winning the toss at Jaipur almost invariably elect to bowl first.

Pitch Profile & Fantasy Cricket Insights

The Sawai Mansingh Stadium pitch report shows why Jaipur is unlike most IPL venues, offering early help for bowlers before becoming easier for batting under dew.  It sits between the batting-dominant surfaces of Chinnaswamy and the truly pace-friendly pitches of venues like Arun Jaitley Stadium, offering both sides genuine opportunity, provided they read the surface correctly.

Pitch characteristics:

• Slightly slow surface with variable bounce in the first six overs, rewarding batters who absorb the new ball before accelerating
• Pacers effective early through the first three overs, with swing and seam movement available on fresh surface
• Spinners increasingly relevant from overs 7–16, particularly left-arm spin and leg-spin that can grip through the drier afternoon and early-evening conditions before dew sets in
• Par score: 160–190 is generally competitive; anything above 200 is a significant batting achievement and has only been done a handful of times at this ground

Fantasy cricket implications at Sawai Mansingh:

• Prioritise top-order anchors over explosive powerplay hitters, batters like Kohli (113*) who pace their innings rather than going hard from ball one have historically outperformed all-out aggressors at this venue.
• Back disciplined seam bowlers in the first two powerplay overs, swing bowlers who can exploit early conditions consistently outperform their IPL season averages at Jaipur.
• Captain leg-spinners when teams bat first, Warne’s 20-wicket tally at this ground and the venue’s high dot-ball percentage confirm that wrist-spin is the most effective bowling category in the first innings.
• Avoid slow left-arm spinners in the second innings when dew reduces their ability to grip the surface.

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Conclusion

The Sawai Mansingh Stadium IPL records paint a portrait of the IPL’s most balanced and strategically interesting venue. From Sohail Tanvir’s historic 6/14, the first six-wicket haul in IPL history, to Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s 35-ball century and Kohli’s measured 113*. The ground rewards skill across both disciplines rather than simply favouring batters or bowlers. With a 64.62% chase-win rate driven by dew and a surface that gradually rewards composure over aggression, Jaipur continues to produce matches where tactical intelligence defines the result, making it one of the most compelling venues for analysts, fantasy players, and supporters alike.