Sawai Mansingh Stadium Records & Stats | Jaipur Cricket
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Jaipur's international record is short and lopsided. The Rajasthan Cricket Association's ground, built in 1969 and owned by the state government, has held one Test, a run of one-day internationals that ended in 2013, and a single men's Twenty20 international. Almost everything else it has staged since 2008 has been Indian Premier League cricket, and the venue's statistical identity now belongs largely to Rajasthan Royals.
Two innings dominate the record. On 31 October 2005 MS Dhoni made 183 not out against Sri Lanka here, which remains the highest individual one-day score made at the ground and the highest by a wicketkeeper in the format. On 16 October 2013 India chased 360 against Australia and got there in 43.3 overs for the loss of one wicket, with Rohit Sharma 141 not out from 123 balls, Shikhar Dhawan 95 and Virat Kohli 100 from 52 balls. That total of 362 for 1 is the highest ever made at Sawai Mansingh in any format.
The ranked tables below are computed from ball-by-ball scoring. That archive holds ten men's one-day internationals played here between October 2006 and October 2013, one T20 international, and 68 IPL matches from 2008 onwards. The 1987 Test and the earlier one-day matches, Dhoni's 183 among them, sit outside it and are described rather than counted.
Format by format
| Format | Matches counted | Window | India played | India W-L | Highest total | Lowest all out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 1 all-time (not in the archive) | Feb 1987 | 1 | drawn | — | — |
| ODI | 10 | Oct 2006 – Oct 2013 | 5 | 4-1 | India 362-1 v Australia, 2013 | England 125, 2006 |
| T20I | 1 | Nov 2021 | 1 | 1-0 | India 166-5 v New Zealand | — |
| IPL | 68 | 2008 – 2026 | — | — | Sunrisers Hyderabad 229-5, 2026 | Rajasthan Royals 59, 2023 |
Only three of the ten one-day internationals in the window were won by the side batting first, which is a striking figure at a ground where the median first innings is 255. Jaipur has been a chasing venue since the day it started scoring heavily.
One Test, in February 1987
The ground's only Test was played against Pakistan from 21 to 26 February 1987 and it was drawn. That is the whole of its red-ball international history: no Test has been allotted to Jaipur since, and the venue has not been part of India's home Test rotation in the modern era. For the grounds that have, see the Test cricket grounds guide, and for the arc of the home record itself the history of Test cricket in India.
Ten one-day internationals, and the chase that defined them
| Highest ODI totals at the ground | Score | Opponent | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India 362-1 | Australia | 16 Oct 2013 |
| 2 | Australia 359-5 | India | 16 Oct 2013 |
| 3 | Pakistan 306-6 | India | 18 Nov 2007 |
| 4 | India 298-9 | South Africa | 21 Feb 2010 |
| 5 | South Africa 297 | India | 21 Feb 2010 |
The two highest totals came in the same match and the third and fourth pair off as well. Jaipur's one-day record is really a record of four contests: the 2013 chase, the 2010 game India won by a single run, the 2007 match Pakistan won by 31 after passing 300, and the low-scoring 2006 Champions Trophy fixture in which England were bowled out for 125.
The February 2010 match is the tightest finish the ground has seen. India made 298 for 9 and South Africa, needing 299, were bowled out for 297. Sreesanth is the leading wicket-taker in the one-day window with nine, and no bowler has taken five in an innings here in the format.
Chris Gayle has more one-day runs at Sawai Mansingh than any other batter, 237 from two innings in 2006 — 104 against Bangladesh and 133 against South Africa, both in the same tournament. Virat Kohli is next on 195 and Rohit Sharma on 193, both figures made almost entirely in the 2013 match.
360 chased in 43.3 overs
The Australia game of 16 October 2013 needs its own account because nothing else at the ground compares to it. George Bailey made 92 from 50 balls and Phillip Hughes 83 from 103 as Australia reached 359 for 5. India lost Rohit's opening partner early and then did not lose another wicket: Dhawan made 95 from 86 balls, Rohit 141 not out from 123, and Virat Kohli came in at the halfway point and made an unbeaten hundred from 52 deliveries — the fastest one-day century by an Indian at the time, beating Virender Sehwag's 60-ball effort.
India won by nine wickets with six and a half overs unused. It was the largest total India had successfully chased in a one-day international at the time and it remains the highest completed chase at the ground by a wide margin — the next best is 262 for 5, by West Indies against South Africa in November 2006. The India-Australia rivalry covers the series that match levelled; the broader fifty-over story is in the history of ODI cricket in India.
The 2006 Champions Trophy fortnight
Six of the ten one-day internationals in the window were played in a three-week stretch of October and November 2006, when Jaipur was a Champions Trophy host. That block is the reason the ground's one-day averages read low: England were dismissed for 125 and then for 169, Zimbabwe for 130, Bangladesh for 161. Five of the six matches were won by the chasing side, and only one first innings in the block passed 250.
The contrast with 2013 is the most useful thing in the venue's record. First innings in that 2006 block averaged 199; seven years later the same ground produced 359 and then 362 in a single day. India's own tournament history at home is set out in the Champions Trophy history.
A single Twenty20 international
The ground has staged one men's T20 international, on 17 November 2021 against New Zealand. Martin Guptill made 70 and Mark Chapman 63 in New Zealand's 164 for 6; India replied with 166 for 5, Suryakumar Yadav making 62 and Rohit Sharma 48, and won by five wickets. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ravichandran Ashwin and Trent Boult each took two wickets. One match is not a sample, so no averages from it are reported here. The format's development in India is traced in the T20 international history.
Rajasthan Royals and the IPL record
Sixty-eight IPL matches, the great majority of them Royals home games, and the Rajasthan Royals record is largely a Jaipur record.
- The first innings averages 169 across 67 uninterrupted matches with a median of 167 — but the season figures run 143 in 2011, 154 in 2013, 198 in 2025 and 226 across the four matches of 2026.
- Ajinkya Rahane has scored 1,115 runs at the ground, ahead of Shane Watson on 875, Jos Buttler on 832 and Sanju Samson on 824. Rahul Dravid, who captained the franchise here, made 735.
- Siddharth Trivedi took 36 wickets at Sawai Mansingh and Shane Warne 20, the two highest tallies at the ground.
- The best bowling figures are Sohail Tanvir's 6 for 14 against Chennai Super Kings on 4 May 2008, when Chennai were bowled out for 109.
- The lowest total is Rajasthan's own 59 against Royal Challengers Bangalore on 14 May 2023, made in reply to 171 for 5.
- Vaibhav Suryavanshi has made two hundreds here — 101 from 38 balls against Gujarat Titans in April 2025 and 103 from 37 against Sunrisers Hyderabad in April 2026 — and 411 runs at the ground in total.
- Powerplay and middle-over scoring are identical at 7.82 an over across the whole IPL sample, rising to 9.49 at the death.
India's own seven matches here
| India at Sawai Mansingh | Result | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 1987, Test v Pakistan | Drawn | The ground's only Test |
| Oct 2006, ODI v England | Won by 4 wickets | England 125; India 126 for 6 |
| Nov 2007, ODI v Pakistan | Lost by 31 runs | Pakistan 306 for 6; India 275 |
| Feb 2010, ODI v South Africa | Won by 1 run | India 298 for 9; South Africa 297 |
| Dec 2010, ODI v New Zealand | Won by 8 wickets | Gautam Gambhir 138; India 259 for 2 |
| Oct 2013, ODI v Australia | Won by 9 wickets | India 362 for 1 chasing 360 |
| Nov 2021, T20I v New Zealand | Won by 5 wickets | India 166 for 5 chasing 165 |
Five of the seven were run chases and India won all five. The two matches in which India batted first produced their only defeat and their narrowest win, which is as close as a seven-match sample gets to telling you something. Gautam Gambhir's 138 in December 2010 is the highest score by an Indian at the ground.
What 68 IPL matches say about the surface
The Twenty20 sample here is large enough to read properly, and it describes a ground that has been consistently good to bat on without being extreme.
- Across the whole IPL sample the scoring rate is 8.20 an over, with 17.0 per cent of balls going for four or six and 33.5 per cent producing nothing.
- The first-innings distribution is heavily clustered: 27 of 67 innings finished between 150 and 180, and 17 between 180 and 210. Only four fell below 120 and seven passed 210.
- Wickets fall in the middle overs more than anywhere else — 299 of them, against 171 in the powerplay and 262 at the death — but the death overs are where they fall fastest, one every 13.8 balls.
- Forty of 68 captains chose to field, and the toss-winner has won 38 of the 68 matches, which is close enough to even to be worth nothing.
Four readings of the Jaipur record
- The venue stopped being an international ground, not a cricket ground. No one-day international since October 2013 and one T20 international since, but four to seven IPL matches most seasons.
- Chasing has always worked here. Three wins from ten for the side batting first in fifty-over cricket, and 24 from 68 in the IPL — one of the lower bat-first returns at any Indian venue with this many matches.
- The scoring history is a step function, not a trend. A 2006 Champions Trophy block in the 120s and 160s, then 359 and 362 in a single day in 2013, then IPL first innings averaging 226 in 2026.
- One innings carries the ground's reputation. Kohli's 52-ball hundred is the most-cited thing that has happened at Sawai Mansingh, and it came in a match India were widely expected to lose.
Sources and method
The ranked tables and the scoring splits here are computed from Cricsheet's ball-by-ball archive, released under the Open Data Commons Attribution Licence. The archive holds ten men's one-day internationals at this ground from October 2006 to October 2013, the single T20 international of November 2021, and 68 IPL matches; those are the counts every table refers to. Cricsheet withholds matches involving the Afghanistan men's team, which does not affect this venue.
The 1987 Test, the ground's earlier one-day internationals including Dhoni's 183 not out in 2005, the construction date and the seating figure are taken from the venue's published record and from the Rajasthan Cricket Association's own listing; they are described rather than computed, and no table on this page counts them. Bowling figures credit only dismissals a scorer attributes to a bowler. Everything was checked in August 2026, and the IPL rows change every season. For the wider picture, see the survey of India's iconic cricket stadiums, the companion Jaipur pitch and scoring report, the Mohali venue record for a ground of similar age with a much longer Test list, and the cricket in India hub.