Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Rajasthan Royals: IPL H2H
By CricketTaken EditorialPublished Cricket in the Indian Premier League10 min read
Royal Challengers Bengaluru have won seventeen of the 35 matches against Rajasthan Royals and Rajasthan fifteen. The other three were abandoned, and all three washouts happened at the same ground — the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, in 2011, 2015 and 2019. No other fixture in the competition has lost three matches to weather at a single venue.
Three of the 35 have been knockouts and Rajasthan have won two. Bengaluru took the 2015 Eliminator at Pune by 71 runs; Rajasthan won Qualifier 2 in 2022 and the Eliminator in 2024, both at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad and both by chasing.
The fixture has also produced three of the lowest completed innings either side has made. Rajasthan were bowled out for 58 at Newlands in April 2009 and for 59 at their own ground in Jaipur in May 2023; Bengaluru were dismissed for 70 at Abu Dhabi in April 2014.
The three knockouts
| Season | Stage | Ground | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Eliminator | MCA Stadium, Pune | RCB 180/4 beat RR 109 all out by 71 runs |
| 2022 | Qualifier 2 | Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad | RR 161/3 (18.1) beat RCB 157/8 by 7 wickets |
| 2024 | Eliminator | Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad | RR 174/6 (19) beat RCB 172/8 by 4 wickets |
The 2015 Eliminator was the most one-sided knockout either has played against the other; Rajasthan's 109 all out is their second-lowest total in the fixture. The two Ahmedabad results were the opposite — 161 for 3 chasing 158, and 174 for 6 chasing 173, both completed with balls in hand. Rajasthan ended Bengaluru's season on both occasions. The 2015 season, 2022 season and 2024 season pages carry the three campaigns.
Ledger and grounds
| Where | Matches | RCB won | RR won | No result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Rajasthan home grounds | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 |
| Neutral and relocated | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| All matches | 35 | 17 | 15 | 3 |
Bengaluru's home record is four wins from eight completed matches, which is the weakest home column of any long-running fixture on this site. Rajasthan's, across Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Guwahati, is seven from thirteen. Neither side holds their ground with any authority, and the aggregate has been settled instead in the neutral column, where Bengaluru lead 7-4 across matches in South Africa, the UAE, Pune and Mumbai.
| Ground | Matches | RCB won | RR won | No result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Dubai International Cricket Stadium | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Maharashtra CA Stadium, Pune | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Newlands, Cape Town | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| SuperSport Park, Centurion | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| ACA Stadium, Guwahati | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Every meeting, 2008 to 2026
| # | Season | Date | Stage | Ground | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2008 | 26 April | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | RR won by 7 wickets |
| 2 | 2008 | 17 May | League | Sawai Mansingh Stadium | RR won by 65 runs |
| 3 | 2009 | 18 April | League | Newlands, Cape Town | RCB won by 75 runs |
| 4 | 2009 | 7 May | League | SuperSport Park, Centurion | RR won by 7 wickets |
| 5 | 2010 | 18 March | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | RCB won by 10 wickets |
| 6 | 2010 | 14 April | League | Sawai Mansingh Stadium | RCB won by 5 wickets |
| 7 | 2011 | 19 April | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | No result |
| 8 | 2011 | 11 May | League | Sawai Mansingh Stadium | RCB won by 9 wickets |
| 9 | 2012 | 15 April | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | RR won by 59 runs |
| 10 | 2012 | 23 April | League | Sawai Mansingh Stadium | RCB won by 46 runs |
| 11 | 2013 | 20 April | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | RCB won by 7 wickets |
| 12 | 2013 | 29 April | League | Sawai Mansingh Stadium | RR won by 4 wickets |
| 13 | 2014 | 26 April | League | Sheikh Zayed Stadium | RR won by 6 wickets |
| 14 | 2014 | 11 May | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | RR won by 5 wickets |
| 15 | 2015 | 24 April | League | Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad | RCB won by 9 wickets |
| 16 | 2015 | 29 April | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | No result |
| 17 | 2015 | 20 May | Eliminator | MCA Stadium, Pune | RCB won by 71 runs |
| 18 | 2018 | 15 April | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | RR won by 19 runs |
| 19 | 2018 | 19 May | League | Sawai Mansingh Stadium | RR won by 30 runs |
| 20 | 2019 | 2 April | League | Sawai Mansingh Stadium | RR won by 7 wickets |
| 21 | 2019 | 30 April | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | No result |
| 22 | 2020 | 3 October | League | Sheikh Zayed Stadium | RCB won by 8 wickets |
| 23 | 2020 | 17 October | League | Dubai International Cricket Stadium | RCB won by 7 wickets |
| 24 | 2021 | 22 April | League | Wankhede Stadium | RCB won by 10 wickets |
| 25 | 2021 | 29 September | League | Dubai International Cricket Stadium | RCB won by 7 wickets |
| 26 | 2022 | 5 April | League | Wankhede Stadium | RCB won by 4 wickets |
| 27 | 2022 | 26 April | League | Maharashtra CA Stadium, Pune | RR won by 29 runs |
| 28 | 2022 | 27 May | Qualifier 2 | Narendra Modi Stadium | RR won by 7 wickets |
| 29 | 2023 | 23 April | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | RCB won by 7 runs |
| 30 | 2023 | 14 May | League | Sawai Mansingh Stadium | RCB won by 112 runs |
| 31 | 2024 | 6 April | League | Sawai Mansingh Stadium | RR won by 6 wickets |
| 32 | 2024 | 22 May | Eliminator | Narendra Modi Stadium | RR won by 4 wickets |
| 33 | 2025 | 13 April | League | Sawai Mansingh Stadium | RCB won by 9 wickets |
| 34 | 2025 | 24 April | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | RCB won by 11 runs |
| 35 | 2026 | 10 April | League | ACA Stadium, Guwahati | RR won by 6 wickets |
Rajasthan's suspension removed the 2016 and 2017 seasons from the fixture. Bengaluru's longest run is five, from October 2020 to April 2022; Rajasthan's is three, achieved twice.
Chasing dominates
| Side | Wins | Won defending | Won chasing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 17 | 6 | 11 |
| Rajasthan Royals | 15 | 5 | 10 |
Twenty-one of the 32 completed matches were won by the side batting second, and both sides show the same tilt. Bengaluru's two ten-wicket wins — 93 for 0 at Chinnaswamy in March 2010 and 181 for 0 at the Wankhede in April 2021 — are the two most emphatic chases the fixture has produced, and no other pairing in this section has two.
Totals: a low-scoring fixture that has only recently changed
| Period | Matches | Average first-innings total |
|---|---|---|
| 2008-2013 | 11 | 146 |
| 2014-2019 | 7 | 158 |
| 2020-2026 | 14 | 173 |
Only four innings in 35 matches have reached 200: Rajasthan's 217 for 4 at Chinnaswamy in April 2018, which is the highest in the fixture; Bengaluru's 205 for 5 at the same ground in 2025; and both innings of the Guwahati match in April 2026. That is a remarkably low count for a fixture of this length and reflects how much of it was played before 2020.
| Total | Team | Season | Ground |
|---|---|---|---|
| 217/4 | Rajasthan Royals | 2018 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium |
| 205/5 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 2025 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium |
| 202/4 | Rajasthan Royals | 2026 | ACA Stadium, Guwahati |
| 201/8 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 2026 | ACA Stadium, Guwahati |
| 198/6 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 2018 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium |
| 197/1 | Rajasthan Royals | 2008 | Sawai Mansingh Stadium |
| 195/2 | Rajasthan Royals | 2012 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium |
| 194/9 | Rajasthan Royals | 2025 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium |
At the other end, Bengaluru's 112-run win at Jaipur on 14 May 2023 is the largest margin in the fixture. They made 171 for 5 and bowled Rajasthan out for 59 in 10.3 overs, one of the lowest innings in the competition's history — the lowest team totals page carries it alongside Rajasthan's 58 at Newlands in 2009, made against the same opponent fourteen years earlier.
Four observations the tables leave out:
- Rajasthan have won both matches at the Narendra Modi Stadium and both were knockouts that ended Bengaluru's season.
- Bengaluru have never lost a match to Rajasthan in Dubai or at the Wankhede, winning all four.
- The Jaipur record is exactly five apiece from ten matches, one of the few home grounds in the competition where a long-running visitor has drawn level.
- Rajasthan's 65-run win at Jaipur in May 2008 was their largest for fifteen years, until Bengaluru's 112-run win at the same ground reversed the balance in 2023.
Franchise context
The Royal Challengers Bengaluru hub and the Rajasthan Royals hub hold squad, honours and season detail, and the IPL index lists every campaign since 2008. Yuzvendra Chahal's IPL wicket record covers both sides of this fixture, since he took more wickets for Bengaluru than any of their bowlers before moving to Rajasthan. Rajasthan's other long fixture against a 2008 original, against Kolkata Knight Riders, has run to a similar length. The Sawai Mansingh records page covers the ground of the 59 all out, the M. Chinnaswamy pitch report the ground of the three washouts, the Narendra Modi records page the venue of both Rajasthan knockout wins, and the cricket in India hub places the league in the domestic game.
Sources and method
The figures on this page are computed from this site's IPL season records covering 2008 to 2026, with each of the 35 scorelines confirmed against ESPNcricinfo. The three abandoned matches were confirmed individually, since they change both the match count and every average on the page.
Conventions. The 35 total includes those three no results, all at Chinnaswamy, which are excluded from the win columns and from the first-innings averages. Franchise names follow the season, so Royal Challengers Bangalore up to 2023. Home allocation follows the designated host: Jaipur, Guwahati and the 2015 Ahmedabad fixture at the Sardar Patel Stadium count as Rajasthan home games, while the two knockouts at the Narendra Modi Stadium are neutral, as are the South African and UAE matches and the 2022 season's Maharashtra venues. Pune's ground and Abu Dhabi's appear under two name forms each in the source records and are consolidated to two matches apiece.
Fixture-only individual aggregates are not published here. The dataset behind these tables holds match results rather than ball-by-ball records, so a leading run scorer or wicket taker across these 35 matches specifically cannot be derived from it and has been left out rather than estimated. Figures current as of 27 August 2026.