Rajasthan Royals vs Punjab Kings: IPL H2H Record

Rajasthan Royals lead Punjab 18-13 in thirty-one Indian Premier League matches, and the fixture has turned into one of the highest-scoring on either calendar. Seven innings in it have passed 215. Two matches have produced an aggregate above 445, one of them the night in Sharjah in September 2020 when Punjab made 223 for 2 and lost.

It has also been an unusually well-finished fixture. One match went to a Super Over, one was won by two runs from a position Punjab could hardly lose from, one by four runs and one by five. Four chases have been completed with three balls or fewer to spare.

Rajasthan's advantage is not in Jaipur, where they hold a 5-2 record but have played only seven of these matches. It is in Punjab. Ten meetings have been staged at Punjab's three home grounds and Rajasthan have won six of them, including all three at the new stadium on the northern edge of Chandigarh. As with the Delhi fixture, the record has a two-season hole in it: Rajasthan did not play in 2016 or 2017.

The thirty-one meetings

Punjab were Kings XI Punjab through 2020 and Punjab Kings from 2021; both appear as Punjab.

Season	Date	Venue	Scores	Won by	Margin	Player of the match
2008	21 Apr	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	Punjab 166/8; RR 168/4	RR	6 wickets	Shane Watson
2008	28 May	PCA Stadium, Mohali	Punjab 221/3; RR 180/7	Punjab	41 runs	Shaun Marsh
2009	26 Apr	Newlands, Cape Town	Punjab 139/6; RR 112/7	Punjab	27 runs	Kumar Sangakkara
2009	5 May	Kingsmead, Durban	RR 211/4; Punjab 133/8	RR	78 runs	Graeme Smith
2010	24 Mar	PCA Stadium, Mohali	RR 183/5; Punjab 152	RR	31 runs	Adam Voges
2010	7 Apr	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	Punjab 153/6; RR 157/1	RR	9 wickets	Michael Lumb
2011	21 Apr	PCA Stadium, Mohali	Punjab 195/7; RR 147/7	Punjab	48 runs	Shaun Marsh
2012	6 Apr	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	RR 191/4; Punjab 160/9	RR	31 runs	Ajinkya Rahane
2012	5 May	PCA Stadium, Mohali	RR 177/6; Punjab 134/8	RR	43 runs	Shane Watson
2013	14 Apr	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	Punjab 124; RR 126/4	RR	6 wickets	James Faulkner
2013	9 May	PCA Stadium, Mohali	Punjab 145/6; RR 147/2	RR	8 wickets	Kevon Cooper
2014	20 Apr	Sharjah	RR 191/5; Punjab 193/3	Punjab	7 wickets	Glenn Maxwell
2014	23 May	PCA Stadium, Mohali	Punjab 179/4; RR 163/8	Punjab	16 runs	Shaun Marsh
2015	10 Apr	MCA Stadium, Pune	RR 162/7; Punjab 136/8	RR	26 runs	James Faulkner
2015	21 Apr	Motera, Ahmedabad	RR 191/6; Punjab 191/6	Punjab	Super Over	Shaun Marsh
2018	6 May	Holkar Stadium, Indore	RR 152/9; Punjab 155/4	Punjab	6 wickets	Mujeeb Ur Rahman
2018	8 May	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	RR 158/8; Punjab 143/7	RR	15 runs	Jos Buttler
2019	25 Mar	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	Punjab 184/4; RR 170/9	Punjab	14 runs	Chris Gayle
2019	16 Apr	IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali	Punjab 182/6; RR 170/7	Punjab	12 runs	Ravichandran Ashwin
2020	27 Sep	Sharjah	Punjab 223/2; RR 226/6	RR	4 wickets	Sanju Samson
2020	30 Oct	Abu Dhabi	Punjab 185/4; RR 186/3	RR	7 wickets	Ben Stokes
2021	12 Apr	Wankhede, Mumbai	Punjab 221/6; RR 217/7	Punjab	4 runs	Sanju Samson
2021	21 Sep	Dubai	RR 185; Punjab 183/4	RR	2 runs	Kartik Tyagi
2022	7 May	Wankhede, Mumbai	Punjab 189/5; RR 190/4	RR	6 wickets	Yashasvi Jaiswal
2023	5 Apr	Barsapara, Guwahati	Punjab 197/5; RR 192/7	Punjab	5 runs	Nathan Ellis
2023	19 May	HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala	Punjab 187/5; RR 189/6	RR	4 wickets	Devdutt Padikkal
2024	13 Apr	New Chandigarh	Punjab 147/8; RR 152/7	RR	3 wickets	Shimron Hetmyer
2024	15 May	Barsapara, Guwahati	RR 144/9; Punjab 145/5	Punjab	5 wickets	Sam Curran
2025	5 Apr	New Chandigarh	RR 205/4; Punjab 155/9	RR	50 runs	Jofra Archer
2025	18 May	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	Punjab 219/5; RR 209/7	Punjab	10 runs	Harpreet Brar
2026	28 Apr	New Chandigarh	Punjab 222/4; RR 228/4	RR	6 wickets	Donovan Ferreira

The Sharjah night, and the run-scoring

On 27 September 2020 Punjab made 223 for 2 in Sharjah. Mayank Agarwal scored 106 from 49 balls, KL Rahul 69 from 54, and the pair put on 183 for the first wicket. Rajasthan then chased 224 with three balls to spare. Steve Smith made 50 from 27, Sanju Samson 85 from 42, and Rahul Tewatia hit five sixes in the eighteenth over, from Sheldon Cottrell, on the way to 53 from 31. The aggregate of 449 remains the highest in the fixture and one of the highest the 2020 season produced.

It is not an isolated match. This pairing has produced seven innings above 215: Punjab's 221 in 2008, 221 in 2021, 223 in 2020, 222 in 2026 and 219 in 2025, and Rajasthan's 226 in 2020 and 228 in 2026. Punjab hold five of those seven and have lost two of the five.

The other side of the ledger is the low-scoring early years. Rajasthan's 112 for 7 at Newlands in April 2009 is the lowest completed total in the fixture, Punjab's 124 at Jaipur in 2013 the next. Only two of the fifteen matches up to 2015 contained a total above 200.

Shaun Marsh's four awards

Shaun Marsh played seven innings against Rajasthan and took the player-of-the-match award in four matches, which is more than anyone else in the fixture and more than most players manage against one opponent in a career.

His 115 from 68 at Mohali in May 2008, in Punjab's 221 for 3, remains the highest score by a Punjab batter in the pairing. He took the award again in the 48-run win at the same ground in 2011, in the sixteen-run win there in 2014, and after the Super Over at Motera in 2015. His 409 runs came at a strike rate of 145, and only KL Rahul has averaged more per innings in the fixture.

Punjab's only other century in the fixture is Agarwal's 106 in that Sharjah defeat. Their next best is Chris Gayle's 99 from 63 at Abu Dhabi in October 2020, and that one was also made in a losing side, Rajasthan chasing 186 with fifteen balls left.

Samson's 690, and the 119 that lost

Batter	For	Innings	Runs	Strike rate	Best
Sanju Samson	RR	21	690	150	119 off 62
KL Rahul	Punjab	8	490	140	95 off 69
Shaun Marsh	Punjab	7	409	145	115 off 68
Yashasvi Jaiswal	RR	9	389	156	68 off 41
Ajinkya Rahane	RR	12	373	118	98 off 66
Jos Buttler	RR	10	325	148	82 off 58
Shane Watson	RR	9	316	151	76 off 48
Mayank Agarwal	Punjab	7	252	166	106 off 49

Sanju Samson has played twenty-one innings in this fixture, more than twice as many as anyone in the Punjab list, and his 690 runs and 29 sixes are both fixture records. His 119 from 62 at the Wankhede on 12 April 2021 is the highest individual score either side has made — and Rajasthan lost by four runs, falling short off the final ball while he was still at the crease. He took the match award anyway, the second time in seven months he had done so against Punjab.

KL Rahul's 490 from eight innings is the most efficient large aggregate in the record. He made 95 from 69 at Jaipur in 2018 and 91 from 49 at the Wankhede in 2021, and he has since faced Rajasthan for a third franchise.

Yashasvi Jaiswal's 389 at a strike rate of 156 is the fastest of the large aggregates, and Ajinkya Rahane's 98 from 66 at Jaipur in 2012, with sixteen fours and a single six, is the most boundary-heavy innings the fixture has seen.

Punjab's grounds, and Rajasthan's record on them

Venue	Matches	RR	Punjab
Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur	7	5	2
PCA Stadium, Mohali	6	3	3
New Chandigarh	3	3	0
Sharjah	2	1	1
Wankhede, Mumbai	2	1	1
Barsapara, Guwahati	2	0	2
South Africa (2009)	2	1	1
IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali	1	0	1
Others (Pune, Ahmedabad, Indore, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Dharamsala)	6	4	2

The three matches at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium at New Chandigarh have all gone to Rajasthan, by three wickets in 2024, fifty runs in 2025 and six wickets in 2026. The 2025 match there was Rajasthan's widest win in the fixture for sixteen years: 205 for 4, then Punjab 155 for 9 with Jofra Archer taking the award.

Punjab's better home record is at the older ground. Six matches at the PCA Stadium in Mohali have split three each, and the three Punjab wins there — 41 runs, 48 runs, 16 runs — are three of their four widest in the pairing.

The two matches in Guwahati have both gone Punjab's way, one by five runs and one by five wickets, and the single meeting at Dharamsala in 2023 was a four-wicket Rajasthan chase completed with two balls left. Jaipur has produced two of Punjab's more recent wins, in 2019 and 2025.

Kartik Tyagi's final over

On 21 September 2021 in Dubai, Rajasthan were bowled out for 185 and Punjab reached the last over needing four runs with eight wickets in hand. Kartik Tyagi bowled it. He conceded one run and took two wickets — the fourth and fifth balls both wickets, the last four balls yielding nothing — and Punjab finished on 183 for 4, two short.

It is the only two-run margin in the fixture and the narrowest result other than the Super Over at Motera. Arshdeep Singh had taken 5 for 32 in the first innings of the same match, the only five-wicket haul either side has produced in thirty-one meetings, and it was not enough.

Nineteen wickets at 10.65

Bowler	For	Innings	Wickets	Economy	Best
Arshdeep Singh	Punjab	12	19	10.65	5/32
Piyush Chawla	Punjab	11	14	7.60	3/35
Siddharth Trivedi	RR	10	11	7.84	2/25
Jofra Archer	RR	8	11	7.71	3/15
Mohammed Shami	Punjab	6	10	9.65	3/53
Kevon Cooper	RR	4	9	7.13	4/26
Shaun Tait	RR	3	8	5.55	3/22
Axar Patel	Punjab	6	8	6.74	3/24

Arshdeep Singh's nineteen wickets are the most in the fixture and his economy of 10.65 is the highest of any bowler with more than four innings in it, which is what happens to a death bowler in a pairing that has produced this much scoring. Piyush Chawla's fourteen at 7.60 across eleven innings is the more controlled return, and Shaun Tait's eight at 5.55 from three the tightest.

Rajasthan have no bowler above eleven wickets in the fixture, but they do hold the best figures other than Arshdeep's: Kevon Cooper's 4 for 26 at Jaipur in 2012, in a match Rajasthan won by 31.

Where the fixture stands

Rajasthan lead 18-13 and have won six of the last nine, though the 2024 and 2025 seasons went one match each way. The side batting first has won seventeen and the side chasing fourteen, which is close to even and unchanged in character across eighteen seasons.

The clearer trend is scoring. The nineteen matches up to 2019 produced two totals above 195. The twelve since 2020 have produced ten. Both sides have adjusted at roughly the same rate, which is why the results have stayed close while the totals have not.

Fuller histories are on the Rajasthan Royals and Punjab Kings pages, with the competition on the IPL hub and the wider domestic game under cricket in India.

Sources and method

All thirty-one Rajasthan Royals–Punjab fixtures from April 2008 to April 2026 were compiled from ball-by-ball scorecard data. Results, venues, margins, match awards and innings figures were checked against ESPNcricinfo Statsguru and the official IPL archive, and 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. Economy and strike rates are rounded. "Lowest completed total" counts only innings in which a side was bowled out or batted its full allocation.

The Super Over result at Motera in April 2015 is recorded as a Punjab win, following the competition's own tables, with the tie noted in the results list. Rajasthan's absent seasons, 2016 and 2017, are not counted in any total. The Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium appears in official listings as both Mullanpur and New Chandigarh and is treated as one ground here. The over-by-over detail of the September 2021 finish and the era comparison in the closing section are computed from ball-by-ball data rather than taken from a published summary.