Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: IPL H2H Record
By CricketTaken EditorialPublished Cricket in the Indian Premier League9 min read
Punjab and Gujarat Titans have played eight times in the Indian Premier League and won four each. Seven of the eight were won by the side batting second, and four of those seven chases were completed off the final ball or the one before it. For a pairing only five seasons old, that is an unusual amount of cricket decided in the last over.
Only one match has been won by a side defending, and it is the outlier in every other respect too: Punjab's 243 for 5 in Ahmedabad in March 2025, which Gujarat came within eleven runs of overhauling. The other seven have all been decided in the second innings, six of them in the final over.
There is no venue pattern to speak of, in part because Punjab have hosted this fixture at two different home grounds and not at all in 2022. Three of the eight have been played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, and Punjab have won two of those, which is the only reading in the record that leans either way at all.
The eight meetings
| Season | Date | Venue | Scores | Won by | Margin | Player of the match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 8 Apr | Brabourne, Mumbai | PBKS 189/9; GT 190/4 | GT | 6 wickets | Shubman Gill |
| 2022 | 3 May | DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai | GT 143/8; PBKS 145/2 | PBKS | 8 wickets | Kagiso Rabada |
| 2023 | 13 Apr | IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali | PBKS 153/8; GT 154/4 | GT | 6 wickets | Mohit Sharma |
| 2024 | 4 Apr | Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad | GT 199/4; PBKS 200/7 | PBKS | 3 wickets | Shashank Singh |
| 2024 | 21 Apr | New Chandigarh | PBKS 142; GT 146/7 | GT | 3 wickets | R Sai Kishore |
| 2025 | 25 Mar | Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad | PBKS 243/5; GT 232/5 | PBKS | 11 runs | Shreyas Iyer |
| 2026 | 31 Mar | New Chandigarh | GT 162/6; PBKS 165/7 | PBKS | 3 wickets | Cooper Connolly |
| 2026 | 3 May | Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad | PBKS 163/9; GT 167/6 | GT | 4 wickets | Jason Holder |
Seven chases, four of them to the last ball
The balls-remaining column is where this fixture lives. Gujarat chased 190 off the final ball at the Brabourne in April 2022. They chased 154 with one ball left at Mohali in 2023 and 164 with one ball left in Ahmedabad in 2026. Punjab chased 200 with one ball left in Ahmedabad in 2024.
| Chase | Target | Won by | Balls left |
|---|---|---|---|
| GT, Brabourne 2022 | 190 | 6 wickets | 0 |
| PBKS, Ahmedabad 2024 | 200 | 3 wickets | 1 |
| GT, Ahmedabad 2026 | 164 | 4 wickets | 1 |
| GT, Mohali 2023 | 154 | 6 wickets | 1 |
| PBKS, New Chandigarh 2026 | 163 | 3 wickets | 5 |
| GT, New Chandigarh 2024 | 143 | 3 wickets | 5 |
| PBKS, Navi Mumbai 2022 | 144 | 8 wickets | 24 |
Six of the seven chases were completed in the final over. Only the eight-wicket win at the DY Patil Stadium in May 2022, when Punjab knocked off 144 with four overs to spare, was comfortable, and that remains the widest result of the eight in wickets and in balls.
Three of the four last-ball finishes went to Gujarat. All three of the three-wicket margins were chases, and two of the three came against totals under 165. This is a fixture decided by lower-order batting as often as by anything else: Rahul Tewatia, Shashank Singh, Cooper Connolly and Jason Holder have each had a hand in a result.
Ahmedabad, March 2025
The one match that broke the pattern is also the highest-scoring in the pairing by a wide margin. Punjab made 243 for 5 at the Narendra Modi Stadium on 25 March 2025, Shreyas Iyer scoring 97 from 42 balls with nine sixes. Gujarat replied with 232 for 5, B Sai Sudharsan making 74 from 41 and Jos Buttler 54 from 33, and lost by eleven.
The aggregate of 475 is seventy-six more than any other match in the record has produced. It is also the only meeting in which either side has passed 200 and lost, and the only one in which both sides have passed 230.
Iyer's 97 is the highest individual score in the fixture and Punjab's 243 the highest total. Neither has come close to being matched since: the three matches after it produced no innings above 167.
Gill and Sudharsan against Punjab
| Batter | For | Innings | Runs | Strike rate | Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shubman Gill | GT | 8 | 373 | 158 | 96 off 59 |
| B Sai Sudharsan | GT | 8 | 327 | 134 | 74 off 41 |
| Shreyas Iyer | PBKS | 3 | 134 | 181 | 97 off 42 |
| Prabhsimran Singh | PBKS | 6 | 127 | 138 | 37 off 24 |
| Jos Buttler | GT | 3 | 118 | 134 | 54 off 33 |
| Shashank Singh | PBKS | 4 | 117 | 189 | 61 off 29 |
| Rahul Tewatia | GT | 8 | 107 | 175 | 36 off 18 |
| Liam Livingstone | PBKS | 3 | 100 | 217 | 64 off 27 |
Shubman Gill has batted in all eight matches and made 373 runs — more than the next two Punjab batters combined — with 96, 89 and 67 among his scores. He has three scores above sixty against Punjab and has never reached a hundred.
B Sai Sudharsan has also played all eight and is the only batter in the fixture with more than 300 runs at a strike rate under 140, which is a reasonable summary of the role Gujarat have used him in. Between them the two openers have 700 of Gujarat's runs in the pairing.
Punjab's list is shorter and faster. Liam Livingstone's 100 runs from 46 balls across three innings is the highest strike rate anyone has managed here, Shashank Singh has 117 at 189 including the 61 from 29 that won the 2024 Ahmedabad chase, and Rahul Tewatia — playing for Gujarat, having played for Punjab earlier in his career — has appeared in all eight without once passing 36.
Kagiso Rabada on both sides
Kagiso Rabada has taken nine wickets against Gujarat for Punjab and four against Punjab for Gujarat. Thirteen in eight matches makes him the leading wicket-taker in the fixture, and the only bowler to have taken wickets in it for both sides.
His 4 for 33 at the DY Patil Stadium in May 2022 set up Punjab's most comfortable win. Four seasons later, for Gujarat, his 2 for 22 in Ahmedabad came in the four-wicket win that levelled the fixture at four apiece. He has gone at 9.40 for Punjab and 8.82 for Gujarat, though three innings in the second spell is not enough to make a comparison of it.
| Bowler | For | Innings | Wickets | Economy | Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rashid Khan | GT | 8 | 9 | 7.28 | 3/22 |
| Kagiso Rabada | PBKS | 5 | 9 | 9.40 | 4/33 |
| Arshdeep Singh | PBKS | 8 | 7 | 8.35 | 2/36 |
| R Sai Kishore | GT | 2 | 7 | 7.88 | 4/33 |
| Mohit Sharma | GT | 3 | 5 | 7.33 | 2/18 |
| Vijaykumar Vyshak | PBKS | 3 | 5 | 8.45 | 3/34 |
| Kagiso Rabada | GT | 3 | 4 | 8.82 | 2/22 |
Rashid Khan has bowled in all eight matches for nine wickets at 7.28, the best combination of volume and control in the record. R Sai Kishore's seven from two innings is the most productive short burst — 4 for 33 at New Chandigarh in 2024 and 3 for 30 in Ahmedabad in 2025 — and Arshdeep Singh has played every match for Punjab without once taking three in an innings.
The three four-wicket hauls are Rabada's, Sai Kishore's and Jason Holder's 4 for 24 in May 2026, and no bowler has taken five. Noor Ahmad and Liam Livingstone are the only bowlers to have gone at under seven an over across more than one innings in the fixture.
Level at four apiece
Every season with two meetings in it has split one apiece — 2022, 2024 and 2026 — and the single-match seasons of 2023 and 2025 went one each way. The only time either side has won two in a row was Punjab across the 2025 and 2026 seasons, a gap of just over a year.
The scoring has not trended: 2022 produced totals of 189, 190, 143 and 145; 2026 produced 162, 165, 163 and 167. Only 2024 and 2025 broke 199, and 2025 broke it by a distance.
Punjab's home ground has moved twice across these five seasons — the IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali in 2023, then the new stadium at New Chandigarh from 2024 — and the 2022 fixtures were played at the Brabourne and Navi Mumbai in the season the whole league was staged in Maharashtra. Only Ahmedabad has hosted more than two.
Fuller histories are on the Punjab Kings and Gujarat Titans pages, with the season detail on the IPL 2025 page, the competition on the IPL hub and the domestic game around it under cricket in India.
Sources and method
All eight Punjab–Gujarat Titans matches from April 2022 to May 2026 were compiled from ball-by-ball scorecard data, with results, venues, margins, match awards and innings figures checked against ESPNcricinfo Statsguru and the official IPL archive. The record is complete to the end of the 2026 season.
Aggregates cover this fixture only and are attributed to the side a player represented at the time, which is why Kagiso Rabada appears twice in the bowling table. Wickets exclude run-outs. Balls-remaining figures count legal deliveries left in the second innings. Strike rates and economy rates are rounded.
Eight matches is a small sample and the chase pattern is reported because it is nearly unbroken rather than because eight matches establish anything. The Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium appears in official listings as both Mullanpur and New Chandigarh and is treated here as one ground under the latter name. A "lowest completed total" here excludes rain-shortened innings: the side must have been dismissed or faced all twenty overs.