IPL Biggest Wins by Runs: All-Time Records

Mumbai Indians made 212 for 3 at the Feroz Shah Kotla on 6 May 2017 and bowled Delhi Daredevils out for 66 in 13.4 overs. The 146-run margin has stood as the largest in Indian Premier League history for nine seasons. Lendl Simmons made 66 from 43 balls and Kieron Pollard 63 from 35; in the reply, Karun Nair's 21 was the only Delhi score above ten, and Harbhajan Singh and Karn Sharma took three wickets each.

Second on the list is a match remembered for the batting rather than the margin. On 14 May 2016 Royal Challengers Bangalore made 248 for 3 against Gujarat Lions at the Chinnaswamy, AB de Villiers scoring 129 from 51 balls and Virat Kohli 109 from 55. Gujarat were out for 104 and the gap was 144 runs. It is one of only three IPL innings in which two batters have made hundreds — the others are Jonny Bairstow and David Warner for Sunrisers against Royal Challengers in March 2019, and Sai Sudharsan and Shubman Gill for Gujarat Titans in May 2024.

Across 1,243 Indian Premier League matches, 558 have been won by the side batting first, and the average margin among them is 31 runs. Only fourteen have exceeded 100. What separates the very largest is almost always a collapse rather than a record total: seven of the top ten featured a losing side dismissed for under 125.

The twenty-five largest winning margins

#	Margin	Winner	Their score	Loser	Their reply	City	Date
1	146 runs	Mumbai Indians	212/3	Delhi Daredevils	66 all out	Delhi	6 May 2017
2	144 runs	Royal Challengers Bangalore	248/3	Gujarat Lions	104 all out	Bangalore	14 May 2016
3	140 runs	Kolkata Knight Riders	222/3	Royal Challengers Bangalore	82 all out	Bangalore	18 Apr 2008
4	138 runs	Royal Challengers Bangalore	226/3	Kings XI Punjab	88 all out	Bangalore	6 May 2015
5	130 runs	Royal Challengers Bangalore	263/5	Pune Warriors	133/9	Bangalore	23 Apr 2013
6	118 runs	Sunrisers Hyderabad	231/2	Royal Challengers Bangalore	113 all out	Hyderabad	31 Mar 2019
7	112 runs	Royal Challengers Bangalore	171/5	Rajasthan Royals	59 all out	Jaipur	14 May 2023
8	111 runs	Kings XI Punjab	232/2	Royal Challengers Bangalore	121 all out	Dharamsala	17 May 2011
9	110 runs	Sunrisers Hyderabad	278/3	Kolkata Knight Riders	168 all out	Delhi	25 May 2025
10	106 runs	Kolkata Knight Riders	272/7	Delhi Capitals	166 all out	Visakhapatnam	3 Apr 2024
11	105 runs	Rajasthan Royals	192/9	Delhi Daredevils	87 all out	Mumbai	30 May 2008
12	103 runs	Chennai Super Kings	207/6	Mumbai Indians	104 all out	Mumbai	23 Apr 2026
13	102 runs	Mumbai Indians	210/6	Kolkata Knight Riders	108 all out	Kolkata	9 May 2018
14	100 runs	Mumbai Indians	217/2	Rajasthan Royals	117 all out	Jaipur	1 May 2025
15	99 runs	Mumbai Indians	199/5	Gujarat Titans	100 all out	Ahmedabad	20 Apr 2026
16	98 runs	Mumbai Indians	218/7	Delhi Daredevils	120/9	Delhi	17 Mar 2010
17	98 runs	Kolkata Knight Riders	235/6	Lucknow Super Giants	137 all out	Lucknow	5 May 2024
18	97 runs	Chennai Super Kings	192/3	Kings XI Punjab	95/9	Chennai	25 Apr 2015
19	97 runs	Delhi Daredevils	205/4	Rising Pune Supergiant	108 all out	Pune	11 Apr 2017
20	97 runs	Kings XI Punjab	206/3	Royal Challengers Bangalore	109 all out	Dubai	24 Sep 2020
21	93 runs	Chennai Super Kings	177/7	Delhi Daredevils	84/9	Abu Dhabi	21 Apr 2014
22	92 runs	Chennai Super Kings	179/5	Royal Challengers Bangalore	87 all out	Port Elizabeth	20 Apr 2009
23	92 runs	Mumbai Indians	187/6	Kolkata Knight Riders	95/9	Port Elizabeth	27 Apr 2009
24	92 runs	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	254/5	Gujarat Titans	162 all out	Dharamsala	26 May 2026
25	91 runs	Chennai Super Kings	208/6	Delhi Capitals	117 all out	Navi Mumbai	8 May 2022

The M Chinnaswamy Stadium hosts four of the top five. Three of those were Royal Challengers wins and one was a Royal Challengers defeat by 140 runs on the opening night of the competition in April 2008, when Brendon McCullum made 158 not out for Kolkata.

Who wins big and who loses big

Club	Wins by 60+	Defeats by 60+
Chennai Super Kings	18	2
Royal Challengers Bengaluru	12	10
Mumbai Indians	11	6
Kolkata Knight Riders	9	7
Sunrisers Hyderabad	7	8
Rajasthan Royals	7	10
Gujarat Titans	5	4
Punjab Kings	5	8
Delhi Capitals	2	15
Lucknow Super Giants	1	3

Chennai's 18-2 is the outlier of the whole table and it is a statement about method rather than about talent. Chennai have historically batted first when they win the toss, defended at Chepauk on surfaces that slow under lights, and turned modest first-innings totals into large margins because the chase never got going. The Chennai Super Kings hub covers a club whose signature is the controlled defence, not the record total.

Delhi's 2-15 is the mirror image. Delhi Capitals, under both names, have been beaten by 60 runs or more in roughly one match in thirteen, and they hold the losing half of the largest margin ever recorded. The Delhi Capitals hub traces a franchise history that has never settled on one method for long.

Royal Challengers appear twelve times as winner and ten as loser, the widest spread in the competition — appropriate for a side built around two or three batters whose scoring range has always been extreme in both directions.

What a heavy defeat actually looks like

Comparing the 79 defeats of 60 runs or more with the 479 smaller ones gives a clearer picture than the ranked list does.

Measure, chasing side	Defeats by 60+	Defeats under 60
Powerplay wickets lost	2.82	1.80
Powerplay run rate	7.20	7.81
Dismissed before 20 overs	59 of 79	80 of 479

The difference is entirely in the first six overs, and it is a difference in wickets rather than in scoring. A side heading for a heavy defeat loses one extra wicket in the powerplay and scores at only half a run an over slower. Everything after that follows: three down inside six overs against a target of 210 leaves no recovery, so the innings either accelerates into further wickets or subsides.

The dismissal figures put it beyond doubt. Three-quarters of the heavy defeats ended with the chasing side all out; only one in six of the smaller ones did. A heavy defeat in this competition is not a slow chase, it is a collapsed one — which is why the IPL most powerplay wickets page and this one describe two halves of the same phenomenon.

Century margins by season

Fourteen matches have been won by 100 runs or more, and they are spread across twelve seasons. Two came in 2008, the competition's first, and two in 2025. There is no clear trend: 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2026 each contributed one.

This is the interesting result of the whole page. Team totals have risen sharply since 2023, as the IPL highest team totals page records, but century margins have not become more common. A higher par score raises both innings, and a side chasing 250 now scores 190 rather than 120, which produces a sixty-run defeat instead of a 130-run one.

What has changed is the composition, and not in the direction the totals data suggests. Of the five century margins since 2023, two involved a first innings above 230. Of the nine before, four did. The largest margin of the modern era, Sunrisers' 110 in May 2025, came off 278 for 3; the second largest, Royal Challengers' 112 in May 2023, came off 171 for 5 and was produced entirely by the bowling.

Where the heavy defeats happen

Margin band	Matches
1-20 runs	259
21-40 runs	149
41-60 runs	74
61-80 runs	35
81-100 runs	28
101 runs and above	13

The median runs-margin result in the IPL is a 23-run win, and 113 of the 558 have been decided by fewer than ten runs, sixteen of them by a single run. Set against that, a margin of 90 is roughly a one-in-twenty event and a margin of 130 has happened five times in nineteen seasons.

Two grounds stand out for producing them disproportionately. Dharamsala has staged nineteen IPL matches and four have been won by 60 runs or more, a rate of one in five; Pune's various venues have produced seven from 51. Both sit at altitude or in conditions where the ball behaves differently in the second innings than the first, and both have hosted matches in short, concentrated blocks rather than as regular home grounds, which removes the local knowledge a chasing side would normally have.

At the other end, the Wankhede has hosted 187 matches, more than any other ground, and produced only seven heavy defeats — a rate of one in twenty-seven, the lowest among the grounds with more than fifty matches.

The knockout matches

Only two of the top twenty-five came in a playoff, which is itself the finding. Rajasthan Royals beat Delhi Daredevils by 105 runs in the 2008 semi-final at the Wankhede, and Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Gujarat Titans by 92 runs in Qualifier 1 at Dharamsala on 26 May 2026 after making 254 for 5.

Knockout matches produce fewer heavy defeats than league matches for a straightforward reason: the sides that reach them are the four best of the season, and the gap between the two teams on the field is at its narrowest. Ninety-two runs is the largest playoff margin the competition has produced in nineteen seasons.

The largest league margin from the recent era is Sunrisers' 110-run win over Kolkata at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on 25 May 2025, built on 278 for 3 — the third-highest total in the competition. Kolkata replied with 168, a score that would have won two-thirds of all IPL matches, and still lost by 110. The Sunrisers Hyderabad hub and the 2025 season page cover the campaign.

Four things worth noting alongside the ranked list:

• No side has ever won by more than 146 runs, and the record has survived nine seasons of rising totals.
• Ten of the top twenty-five losing sides were dismissed inside seventeen overs, so the margin usually reflects a chase abandoned rather than one completed badly.
• Port Elizabeth staged two 92-run wins in eight days in April 2009, from the seven matches it has ever hosted.
• Chennai are the only club with more than twelve heavy wins and fewer than three heavy defeats, and their largest defeat by runs in nineteen seasons is 89, to Gujarat Titans at Ahmedabad in May 2026.

The smallest scores that produced some of these margins appear on the IPL lowest team totals page, the equivalent list for chases on the IPL biggest wins by wickets page, and the Mumbai Indians hub covers the club holding the record. The cricket in India hub sets the league within the wider game.

Sources and method

Margins on this page are taken from the match outcome recorded in the Cricsheet ball-by-ball archive (cricsheet.org, ODC-BY 1.0), which holds all 1,243 IPL matches from 18 April 2008 to 31 May 2026, and each was cross-checked against the innings totals computed independently from the same deliveries.

Only wins by a runs margin are eligible, which by definition means the winning side batted first. Wins by wickets are a different quantity and are ranked separately. Matches decided under Duckworth-Lewis are included where the recorded margin is expressed in runs, since the revised target is the one the chasing side was actually set; none of the top twenty-five falls into that category.

Innings figures shown for the losing side are the score at the end of the innings, whether all out or after the full overs, and the notation distinguishes the two. Club rows in the 60-run table merge Delhi Daredevils with Delhi Capitals, Kings XI Punjab with Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore with Royal Challengers Bengaluru; the ranked list keeps the contemporary name. The 558-match count and the 31-run average cover every runs-margin result in the archive. All figures close with the 2026 final.