Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Capitals: IPL H2H Record

Delhi lead Rajasthan Royals 17-15 across thirty-two Indian Premier League matches, and that near-level total conceals two long, one-sided runs. Rajasthan won seven consecutive meetings between April 2013 and April 2018. Delhi have won eleven of the fifteen played since, including the last four.

The fixture goes back to the first week of the competition and has produced one knockout match, the 2008 semi-final at the Wankhede, which Rajasthan won by 105 runs on their way to the inaugural title. It remains the largest margin either side has managed and the game in which Delhi were bowled out for 87, still the lowest total in the record.

There is a two-season gap in the middle of the ledger. Rajasthan did not play in 2016 or 2017 following the suspension handed down after the 2013 betting investigation, which is why the seven-match Rajasthan run spans five calendar years but only four seasons of cricket. When the fixture resumed in April 2018 it did so with Sanju Samson and Rishabh Pant in the two sides rather than Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag, and the balance of it changed almost immediately.

All thirty-two meetings

Delhi played as the Daredevils through 2018 and as the Capitals from 2019; both appear as Delhi below.

Season	Date	Venue	Scores	Won by	Margin	Player of the match
2008	19 Apr	Feroz Shah Kotla	RR 129/8; Delhi 132/1	Delhi	9 wickets	Farveez Maharoof
2008	11 May	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	Delhi 156/7; RR 159/7	RR	3 wickets	Shane Watson
2008	30 May (Semi-final)	Wankhede, Mumbai	RR 192/9; Delhi 87	RR	105 runs	Shane Watson
2009	28 Apr	Centurion	Delhi 143/7; RR 147/5	RR	5 wickets	Yusuf Pathan
2009	17 May	Bloemfontein	Delhi 150/3; RR 136/9	Delhi	14 runs	AB de Villiers
2010	15 Mar	Motera, Ahmedabad	RR 141/6; Delhi 142/4	Delhi	6 wickets	Virender Sehwag
2010	31 Mar	Feroz Shah Kotla	Delhi 188/6; RR 121	Delhi	67 runs	Dinesh Karthik
2011	12 Apr	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	Delhi 151/6; RR 152/4	RR	6 wickets	Shane Warne
2012	29 Apr	Feroz Shah Kotla	Delhi 152/6; RR 151/3	Delhi	1 run	Virender Sehwag
2012	1 May	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	RR 141/6; Delhi 144/4	Delhi	6 wickets	Pawan Negi
2013	6 Apr	Feroz Shah Kotla	RR 165/7; Delhi 160/6	RR	5 runs	Rahul Dravid
2013	7 May	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	Delhi 154/4; RR 155/1	RR	9 wickets	Ajinkya Rahane
2014	3 May	Feroz Shah Kotla	Delhi 152/5; RR 156/3	RR	7 wickets	Karun Nair
2014	15 May	Motera, Ahmedabad	RR 201/6; Delhi 139/9	RR	62 runs	Ajinkya Rahane
2015	12 Apr	Feroz Shah Kotla	Delhi 184/3; RR 186/7	RR	3 wickets	Deepak Hooda
2015	3 May	Brabourne, Mumbai	RR 189/2; Delhi 175/7	RR	14 runs	Ajinkya Rahane
2018	11 Apr	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	RR 153/5; Delhi 60/4	RR	10 runs (DLS)	Sanju Samson
2018	2 May	Arun Jaitley, Delhi	Delhi 196/6; RR 146/5	Delhi	4 runs (DLS)	Rishabh Pant
2019	22 Apr	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	RR 191/6; Delhi 193/4	Delhi	6 wickets	Rishabh Pant
2019	4 May	Arun Jaitley, Delhi	RR 115/9; Delhi 121/5	Delhi	5 wickets	Amit Mishra
2020	9 Oct	Sharjah	Delhi 184/8; RR 138	Delhi	46 runs	Ravichandran Ashwin
2020	14 Oct	Dubai	Delhi 161/7; RR 148/8	Delhi	13 runs	Anrich Nortje
2021	15 Apr	Wankhede, Mumbai	Delhi 147/8; RR 150/7	RR	3 wickets	Jaydev Unadkat
2021	25 Sep	Abu Dhabi	Delhi 154/6; RR 121/6	Delhi	33 runs	Shreyas Iyer
2022	22 Apr	Wankhede, Mumbai	RR 222/2; Delhi 207/8	RR	15 runs	Jos Buttler
2022	11 May	DY Patil, Navi Mumbai	RR 160/6; Delhi 161/2	Delhi	8 wickets	Mitchell Marsh
2023	8 Apr	Barsapara, Guwahati	RR 199/4; Delhi 142/9	RR	57 runs	Yashasvi Jaiswal
2024	28 Mar	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	RR 185/5; Delhi 173/5	RR	12 runs	Riyan Parag
2024	7 May	Arun Jaitley, Delhi	Delhi 221/8; RR 201/8	Delhi	20 runs	Kuldeep Yadav
2025	16 Apr	Arun Jaitley, Delhi	Delhi 188/5; RR 188/5	Delhi	Super Over	Mitchell Starc
2026	1 May	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	RR 225/6; Delhi 226/3	Delhi	7 wickets	KL Rahul
2026	17 May	Arun Jaitley, Delhi	RR 193/8; Delhi 197/5	Delhi	5 wickets	Mitchell Starc

The 2008 semi-final

Rajasthan and Delhi finished first and third in the league stage of the first season and met at the Wankhede on 30 May 2008. Rajasthan made 192 for 9. Shane Watson took 3 for 10 in three overs, Munaf Patel 3 for 17, and Delhi were bowled out for 87 in the seventeenth over. The 105-run margin is still the widest in the fixture by more than thirty runs, and Delhi's 87 the lowest completed total by either side.

Watson, who had made 74 from 37 in Jaipur three weeks earlier, took the match award for the second time in the pairing. Rajasthan won the 2008 final three days later. It is the only knockout meeting the two sides have had in nineteen seasons, which for a fixture this old is unusual.

Delhi's two grounds have behaved differently

Eleven of the thirty-two have been played in Delhi and the split by ground is stark: six at the Feroz Shah Kotla, three wins each; five at the Arun Jaitley Stadium since the 2018 renaming, and Delhi have won all five.

Venue	Matches	RR	Delhi
Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	8	5	3
Feroz Shah Kotla	6	3	3
Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi	5	0	5
Mumbai (Wankhede and Brabourne)	4	4	0
Motera, Ahmedabad	2	1	1
South Africa (2009)	2	1	1
UAE (2020 and 2021)	3	0	3
Navi Mumbai	1	0	1
Barsapara, Guwahati	1	1	0

Two of the five Arun Jaitley wins have been the widest recent margins in the fixture — twenty runs in 2024 with Delhi making 221 for 8, and a Super Over in 2025 — and the other three were tight: four runs under DLS in 2018, five wickets in 2019, five wickets in 2026 with four balls left. It is not a pattern of dominance so much as a pattern of Delhi getting over the line at that ground every time.

The mirror image is Mumbai. Rajasthan have played Delhi four times in the city, at the Wankhede three times and the Brabourne once, and have won all four, including the 2008 semi-final and the highest total Rajasthan have made in the fixture. The Wankhede's record shows a ground where the second innings has usually been the better one to bat in, and three of Rajasthan's four wins there came batting first.

Jaipur and the seven-match run

Rajasthan hold a 5-3 record at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, which is the narrowest home advantage of any ground either side uses regularly in this pairing. Their three defeats there include the highest chase the fixture has produced: Delhi made 226 for 3 in May 2026 to overhaul Rajasthan's 225 for 6 with five balls to spare, KL Rahul taking the match award.

The seven straight Rajasthan wins that run from April 2013 to April 2018 are the longest streak by either side. They came at five different grounds, by margins of five runs, nine wickets, seven wickets, sixty-two runs, three wickets, fourteen runs and ten runs under DLS — which is to say they were not all comfortable. Ajinkya Rahane took the match award in three of the seven.

The 2023 fixture in Guwahati, where Rajasthan won by 57 runs after Yashasvi Jaiswal made 60 from 31, is the pairing's only meeting at Barsapara, one of Rajasthan's secondary home grounds in that period.

Rahane's 601 and Buttler's 116

Batter	For	Innings	Runs	Strike rate	Best
Ajinkya Rahane	RR	12	601	136	105 off 63
Sanju Samson	RR	16	418	146	86 off 45
Rishabh Pant	Delhi	11	400	161	78 off 35
Jos Buttler	RR	10	365	160	116 off 65
David Warner	Delhi	8	342	127	77 off 56
Riyan Parag	RR	12	335	142	90 off 50
Virender Sehwag	Delhi	11	295	167	75 off 34
Rahul Dravid	RR	5	253	121	65 off 51

Ajinkya Rahane has scored nearly two hundred more runs against Delhi than any other Rajasthan batter, and his three match awards in the fixture are more than anyone on either side has won. His 105 from 63 in Jaipur in April 2019 was made in a defeat — Delhi chased 192 with four balls left, Pant making 78 from 35 in reply.

The highest individual score in the record is Jos Buttler's 116 from 65 at the Wankhede in April 2022, nine fours and nine sixes, in Rajasthan's 222 for 2. Delhi replied with 207 for 8 and the aggregate of 429 stood as the fixture's highest until Jaipur in 2026, when the two sides made 451 between them.

Riyan Parag's 22 sixes in twelve innings match Sanju Samson's in sixteen, and Sehwag's strike rate of 167 across eleven innings between 2008 and 2013 is still the highest of any batter with more than eight appearances in the pairing.

Mishra's twenty, and Starc's three matches

Bowler	For	Innings	Wickets	Economy	Best
Amit Mishra	Delhi	11	20	8.00	3/34
Jofra Archer	RR	7	12	8.02	3/24
Farveez Maharoof	Delhi	6	11	6.04	3/34
Shane Watson	RR	7	9	6.43	3/10
Jaydev Unadkat	RR	5	9	9.37	3/46
Kagiso Rabada	Delhi	5	9	7.93	3/35
Munaf Patel	RR	6	8	6.86	3/17
Shane Warne	RR	8	8	6.97	2/21
Mitchell Starc	Delhi	3	8	9.67	4/40

Amit Mishra's twenty wickets are the most in the fixture and came in only eleven innings, though Farveez Maharoof's eleven in six is a marginally better rate. Mitchell Starc's eight from three innings is the fastest accumulation in the record, and he has taken the match award in two of those three, including the Super Over in April 2025.

The best returns are all four-wicket hauls — Pawan Negi's 4 for 18 in Jaipur in 2012, Umesh Yadav's 4 for 24 at the Kotla in 2013, Imran Tahir's 4 for 28 at the same ground in 2015 and Starc's 4 for 40 in Delhi in 2026, all four for Delhi. No bowler has taken five in an innings in thirty-two matches, which for a fixture with two totals under 122 in it is a slightly surprising absence.

Shane Warne captained Rajasthan in eight of these matches and took eight wickets at just under seven an over. Farveez Maharoof's economy of 6.04 across six innings is the tightest in the table.

Five readings from the ledger

The side batting first has won seventeen and the side chasing fifteen, which is close enough to nothing to be worth stating plainly: the toss has not decided this fixture.

Only one match in thirty-two has been tied, in April 2025, and only one has been decided by a single run, at the Kotla in 2012 when Delhi defended 152 by a run and Sehwag took the award. The two DLS-affected results both came in the 2018 season, one to each side, three weeks apart.

Rajasthan have made a completed total under 140 six times in the fixture and every one of those innings was played away from Jaipur. Delhi have done it twice, at the Wankhede in 2008 and at Motera in 2014.

The scoring has jumped in the same way it has everywhere, but later here than in some fixtures. Only four of the thirty-two matches have contained an innings above 200, and three of those four have come since 2022.

Neither side has won more than four in a row since Rajasthan's run ended in 2018, and Delhi have now managed exactly four twice — 2019 to 2020, and 2024 to 2026.

Fuller franchise histories are on the Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Capitals pages, the competition on the IPL hub, and the domestic structure behind both under cricket in India.

Sources and method

Every Rajasthan Royals–Delhi fixture from April 2008 to May 2026 was compiled from ball-by-ball scorecard data, and results, venues, margins, match awards and innings figures were checked against ESPNcricinfo Statsguru and the official IPL archive. The record is complete to the end of the 2026 season.

Batting and bowling aggregates count runs and wickets in this fixture only, attributed to the side a player represented at the time. Wickets exclude run-outs. Strike rates and economy rates are rounded. "Lowest completed total" means an innings in which a side was bowled out or batted its full allocation, so a chase finished early does not appear.

The tied match of April 2025 is recorded as a Delhi win because Delhi won the Super Over, which is how the competition's own tables treat it; the tie is noted separately in the results list. The two seasons Rajasthan missed, 2016 and 2017, are absent from the record rather than counted as anything, and the 2009 fixtures were played in South Africa and the 2020 and 2021 matches listed above in the United Arab Emirates. The streak and split figures in the closing section are computed from the match list rather than taken from a published summary.