Rajasthan Royals vs Lucknow Super Giants: IPL Record
By CricketTaken EditorialPublished Cricket in the Indian Premier League8 min read
Rajasthan Royals lead Lucknow Super Giants 6-2 across eight Indian Premier League matches, and the two Lucknow wins have something odd in common: both were in Jaipur. Lucknow have played Rajasthan twice at their own ground in Lucknow and lost both, twice in Mumbai in 2022 and lost both, and won the two they took at Rajasthan's home stadium.
The fixture has also, unusually for a modern pairing, favoured the side batting first. Six of the eight have gone to the team setting a target. Both successful chases belong to Rajasthan, which means Lucknow have not once won this fixture batting second in five seasons.
The margins have been tight more often than the 6-2 suggests. Three runs in the first meeting, ten in the third, two in the sixth: three of the eight have been decided by fewer than eleven runs, and Lucknow won two of them. The other five were all comfortable and all went Rajasthan's way.
The eight meetings
| Season | Date | Venue | Scores | Won by | Margin | Player of the match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10 Apr | Wankhede, Mumbai | RR 165/6; LSG 162/8 | RR | 3 runs | Yuzvendra Chahal |
| 2022 | 15 May | Brabourne, Mumbai | RR 178/6; LSG 154/8 | RR | 24 runs | Trent Boult |
| 2023 | 19 Apr | Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur | LSG 154/7; RR 144/6 | LSG | 10 runs | Marcus Stoinis |
| 2024 | 24 Mar | Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur | RR 193/4; LSG 173/6 | RR | 20 runs | Sanju Samson |
| 2024 | 27 Apr | Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | LSG 196/5; RR 199/3 | RR | 7 wickets | Sanju Samson |
| 2025 | 19 Apr | Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur | LSG 180/5; RR 178/5 | LSG | 2 runs | Avesh Khan |
| 2026 | 22 Apr | Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | RR 159/6; LSG 119 | RR | 40 runs | Ravindra Jadeja |
| 2026 | 19 May | Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur | LSG 220/5; RR 225/3 | RR | 7 wickets | Vaibhav Suryavanshi |
Lucknow's two wins, both in Jaipur
On 19 April 2023 Lucknow made 154 for 7 at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium and defended it by ten runs, Marcus Stoinis contributing with bat and ball. Two years later, on 19 April 2025 at the same ground, they made 180 for 5 and won by two runs, Avesh Khan taking the match award after Rajasthan finished on 178 for 5 with wickets in hand.
Both were low-scoring by the standards of the fixture's later years and both were built on containing Rajasthan's chase rather than on a large total. In 2025 Rajasthan reached the last over needing nine and managed six, Avesh Khan bowling it without conceding a boundary. That two-run margin is the narrowest result in the pairing.
Rajasthan have won two of the four in Jaipur as well, so the ground is honestly split. What makes the split notable is that it is the only place Lucknow have won at all.
| Venue | Matches | RR | LSG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Wankhede, Mumbai | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Brabourne, Mumbai | 1 | 1 | 0 |
The Ekana has belonged to Rajasthan
The two matches at Lucknow's home ground could hardly be less alike. In April 2024 Lucknow made 196 for 5 and Rajasthan chased 197 with six balls to spare, Sanju Samson making 71 from 33 for his second match award in the fixture in five weeks. In April 2026 Rajasthan made a modest 159 for 6, Ravindra Jadeja top-scoring with 43 in his first season in Rajasthan colours, and Lucknow lost three wickets for eleven runs inside three overs before being bowled out for 119 in eighteen. Jofra Archer took 3 for 20; Jadeja took the award.
That 119 is the lowest completed total in the record and the only time either side has been bowled out. The Ekana ground has a reputation for holding scores down, and the 2026 match fitted it; the 2024 match, with 395 runs in it, did not.
The two 2022 fixtures in Mumbai came in the season the entire league was played in Maharashtra, so neither side was at home. Rajasthan won both, by three runs at the Wankhede after Yuzvendra Chahal took 4 for 41, and by 24 runs at the Brabourne with Trent Boult taking the award.
Jaipur, May 2026
The most recent meeting is the outlier of the fixture and probably its future. Lucknow made 220 for 5 — Mitchell Marsh 96 from 56, Josh Inglis 60 from 29 — and lost by seven wickets with five balls unused.
Rajasthan's 225 for 3 is the highest total in the record, the chase of 221 the largest either side has completed, and the aggregate of 445 is the only one above 400 in the pairing. Vaibhav Suryavanshi made 93 from 38 with ten sixes; Dhruv Jurel made 53 from 38. Before that evening no innings in the fixture had passed 199.
The batting
| Batter | For | Innings | Runs | Strike rate | Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yashasvi Jaiswal | RR | 7 | 272 | 151 | 74 off 52 |
| Sanju Samson | RR | 5 | 200 | 161 | 82 off 51 |
| KL Rahul | LSG | 5 | 183 | 128 | 76 off 47 |
| Deepak Hooda | LSG | 5 | 162 | 146 | 59 off 39 |
| Riyan Parag | RR | 7 | 158 | 135 | 43 off 29 |
| Mitchell Marsh | LSG | 3 | 155 | 151 | 96 off 56 |
| Nicholas Pooran | LSG | 6 | 153 | 132 | 64 off 41 |
| Vaibhav Suryavanshi | RR | 3 | 135 | 196 | 93 off 38 |
Yashasvi Jaiswal leads the fixture for runs without ever passing 74, which is a fair description of how it has been played: eight matches, no hundred by anyone, and only one score above 93. Mitchell Marsh's 96 from 56 in the final meeting is the highest individual innings in the record and was made in a losing side.
Sanju Samson's 200 runs from five innings at 161 is the most productive per-innings return among the regulars, and both of his match awards came in the 2024 season, five weeks apart, one defending in Jaipur and one chasing in Lucknow. Marcus Stoinis took the award in Lucknow's 2023 win for a contribution of 21 runs and two wickets, which is the sort of match it was.
Suryavanshi has three innings and 135 runs, thirteen of his boundaries being sixes, and Riyan Parag has ten sixes in seven innings without a score above 43 — the two most obviously unfinished records in the pairing.
The bowling, and the 119
| Bowler | For | Innings | Wickets | Economy | Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avesh Khan | LSG | 4 | 8 | 7.53 | 3/25 |
| Trent Boult | RR | 5 | 8 | 7.00 | 2/30 |
| Yuzvendra Chahal | RR | 5 | 6 | 10.00 | 4/41 |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | RR | 5 | 5 | 7.05 | 2/23 |
| Sandeep Sharma | RR | 5 | 5 | 10.17 | 2/31 |
| Jofra Archer | RR | 3 | 5 | 7.58 | 3/20 |
| Mohsin Khan | LSG | 5 | 4 | 9.40 | 2/17 |
Avesh Khan's eight wickets are the most by a Lucknow bowler in the fixture and he has taken them in only four innings, with three-wicket returns in both of Lucknow's wins. Trent Boult matches him on wickets at a better rate across five innings, and his figures are the tightest of any bowler with more than four appearances here.
Chahal's 4 for 41 at the Wankhede in April 2022 is the only four-wicket haul the fixture has produced, and it came in a three-run win. Archer's 3 for 20 in the 2026 Ekana match is the most economical wicket-taking spell in the record, and it included the final over of a Lucknow innings that had already been broken open in the first three.
The eight-match picture
Six wins from eight for the side batting first is the clearest thing in the record, and it holds across venues: Rajasthan have won batting first in Mumbai, Jaipur and Lucknow, and Lucknow's two wins were both defences.
The scoring has been low for a fixture of this vintage. Seven of the eight matches produced no total above 200, and five produced none above 180. Only the final meeting looks like a 2026 game.
The personnel have turned over quickly. Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Ravindra Jadeja have appeared for Rajasthan in this fixture only since 2025, Josh Inglis for Lucknow only in 2026, and Lucknow's leading batter in the record, KL Rahul, no longer plays for them.
Fuller franchise histories are on the Rajasthan Royals and Lucknow Super Giants pages, the competition on the IPL hub, and the domestic game around it under cricket in India. The most recent campaign is covered on the IPL 2026 season page.
Sources and method
All eight Rajasthan Royals–Lucknow Super Giants 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 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 totals ignore truncated innings — the side had to be bowled out or bat twenty overs to count.
Eight matches is a small sample and none of the rates here should be read as a career indicator. The batting-first pattern is stated because it is unbroken rather than because eight matches prove anything about it. The Ekana Cricket Stadium is listed officially as the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium and shortened here; the wicket-timing detail from the April 2026 match is computed from ball-by-ball data.