IPL Biggest Wins by Wickets: All-Time Records

Seventeen Indian Premier League matches have been won by ten wickets. A ten-wicket win is the maximum margin available in the format and therefore has no ranking of its own, so the list below is ordered by what a ten-wicket win actually varies in: how much of the innings was left when the target was passed.

By that measure the largest is Delhi Daredevils' chase at Newlands on 19 April 2009. Kings XI Punjab had made 104 for 7 in a rain-interrupted innings, Daniel Vettori taking three for 15, and Delhi were set a revised target of 58 under Duckworth-Lewis. Virender Sehwag made 38 from sixteen balls and Gautam Gambhir 15 from thirteen, and it was over in 4.5 overs with 91 balls unused.

The biggest target run down for ten wickets is Gujarat Titans' 200 against Delhi Capitals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on 18 May 2025. Sai Sudharsan made 108 not out from 61 balls and Shubman Gill 93 not out from 53, and their unbroken 205 came in nineteen overs. Delhi had made 199 for 3, with KL Rahul scoring 112 from 65.

Across 1,243 Indian Premier League matches, 660 have been won by the chasing side, and the average is 6.17 wickets in hand. A ten-wicket win, then, is one chase in thirty-nine.

All seventeen ten-wicket wins

#	Winner	Target	Chased in	Balls to spare	Opponent	City	Date
1	Delhi Daredevils	58 (D/L)	4.5 ov	91	Kings XI Punjab	Cape Town	19 Apr 2009
2	Kings XI Punjab	68	7.5 ov	73	Delhi Daredevils	Chandigarh	30 Apr 2017
3	Royal Challengers Bangalore	89	8.1 ov	71	Kings XI Punjab	Indore	14 May 2018
4	Sunrisers Hyderabad	166	9.4 ov	62	Lucknow Super Giants	Hyderabad	8 May 2024
5	Royal Challengers Bangalore	96	10.3 ov	57	Delhi Daredevils	Delhi	26 Apr 2015
6	Royal Challengers Bangalore	93	10.4 ov	56	Rajasthan Royals	Bangalore	18 Mar 2010
7	Deccan Chargers	155	12.1 ov	47	Mumbai Indians	Mumbai	27 Apr 2008
8	Mumbai Indians	115	12.2 ov	46	Chennai Super Kings	Sharjah	23 Oct 2020
9	Rajasthan Royals	134	13.1 ov	41	Mumbai Indians	Mumbai	20 May 2011
10	Sunrisers Hyderabad	136	14.5 ov	31	Gujarat Lions	Rajkot	21 Apr 2016
11	Kolkata Knight Riders	184	14.5 ov	31	Gujarat Lions	Rajkot	7 Apr 2017
12	Royal Challengers Bangalore	178	16.3 ov	21	Rajasthan Royals	Mumbai	22 Apr 2021
13	Sunrisers Hyderabad	150	17.1 ov	17	Mumbai Indians	Sharjah	3 Nov 2020
14	Chennai Super Kings	139	17.2 ov	16	Kings XI Punjab	Chandigarh	10 Apr 2013
15	Chennai Super Kings	179	17.4 ov	14	Kings XI Punjab	Dubai	4 Oct 2020
16	Mumbai Indians	163	18.0 ov	12	Rajasthan Royals	Jaipur	20 May 2012
17	Gujarat Titans	200	19.0 ov	6	Delhi Capitals	Delhi	18 May 2025

Kings XI Punjab, under that name, are the losing side in four of the seventeen — more than any other club — and the winning side in one. Royal Challengers are the winners four times, more than anyone, across 2010, 2015, 2018 and 2021 and against four different opponents.

The three chases that stand apart

Adam Gilchrist's 109 not out from 47 balls for Deccan Chargers at the DY Patil Stadium on 27 April 2008 is the only hundred in a ten-wicket IPL chase by a batter who faced fewer than fifty deliveries. Mumbai had made 154 for 7; Gilchrist and VVS Laxman finished it in 12.1 overs, Laxman contributing 37 from 26. It was the eighth match ever played in the competition.

Sixteen years later, at Uppal on 8 May 2024, Travis Head made 89 from thirty balls and Abhishek Sharma 75 from 28, and Sunrisers passed 166 in 9.4 overs. That is 167 without loss at a rate of 17.28 an over, and it remains the fastest completion of a target above 150 in the competition. The Sunrisers Hyderabad hub covers the opening pair whose scoring rate produced both this and the record team totals of the same season.

The Gujarat Titans chase in May 2025 is different in kind. Sudharsan and Gill batted nineteen overs and never accelerated past what the target demanded; the margin came from not losing a wicket, not from speed. It is the only ten-wicket win against a target of 200 or more, and sixteen runs clear of the next-largest, Kolkata's chase of 184 at Rajkot in April 2017.

Fastest chases regardless of margin

Balls to spare	Wickets in hand	Winner	Target	Opponent	Date
94	8	Sunrisers Hyderabad	144	Delhi Daredevils	10 May 2014
91	10	Delhi Daredevils	58 (D/L)	Kings XI Punjab	19 Apr 2009
90	8	Kolkata Knight Riders	104	Rising Pune Supergiants	14 May 2016
88	7	Kolkata Knight Riders	129	Sunrisers Hyderabad	17 May 2017
87	8	Mumbai Indians	68	Kolkata Knight Riders	16 May 2008
85	6	Royal Challengers Bangalore	136	Sunrisers Hyderabad	15 May 2015
81	9	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	76	Delhi Capitals	27 Apr 2026
76	8	Kochi Tuskers Kerala	98	Rajasthan Royals	15 May 2011
73	10	Kings XI Punjab	68	Delhi Daredevils	30 Apr 2017
72	9	Sunrisers Hyderabad	69	Royal Challengers Bangalore	23 Apr 2022

Only three of the ten fastest chases were ten-wicket wins. Six of the others involved losing two or three wickets in the first four overs while the required rate was so low it did not matter — the Sunrisers chase of 144 in 4.2 overs at the Kotla in May 2014 cost two wickets and still finished with 94 balls unused, which is the widest gap between a target and a completion the competition has recorded.

The distinction matters for reading the record. A ten-wicket win is a description of wickets; a chase with 90 balls to spare is a description of a mismatch. Only occasionally are they the same match.

Which clubs chase without losing wickets

Club	Wins by 9 or 10 wickets	Defeats by 9 or 10 wickets
Royal Challengers Bengaluru	15	5
Sunrisers Hyderabad	9	1
Mumbai Indians	9	10
Delhi Capitals	8	9
Chennai Super Kings	7	3
Kolkata Knight Riders	6	9
Rajasthan Royals	5	10
Punjab Kings	4	12

Royal Challengers' fifteen is the highest count in the competition and follows from squad shape rather than from chasing strategy: a top three of Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers, and later Kohli with Phil Salt or Faf du Plessis, made a small target a two-man job. The Royal Challengers hub covers a club whose batting has always been front-loaded.

Sunrisers' 9-1 is the most lopsided ratio, and Punjab's 4-12 the reverse. Punjab have been beaten by nine or ten wickets in roughly one match in seventeen, which is a bowling record more than a batting one — they have set the small targets. The Punjab Kings hub traces a club that has changed attack more often than any other.

When ten-wicket wins happen

Three of the seventeen came in the 2020 season played in the United Arab Emirates, the most of any single campaign. Two came in 2017 and one in each of eleven other seasons; 2014, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2026 have produced none.

The UAE cluster is explicable. Sharjah and Dubai in October and November produce short boundaries and heavy dew after dark, and the chasing side batted with a wet ball against bowlers who could not grip it. Two of the three 2020 cases were chases of 115 and 150 finished with more than sixteen balls to spare. The 2020 season page covers the campaign.

There is no upward trend despite scoring rising sharply since 2023. Higher totals make a wicketless chase harder, not easier, because the required rate forces risk from the first over — which is why the two most recent examples, Sunrisers in 2024 and Gujarat in 2025, both involved a top-order pair batting through at strike rates above 170.

Four observations the tables do not carry:

• Ten different clubs have won a match by ten wickets, and only Royal Challengers, with four, and Sunrisers, with three, have done it more than twice.
• Rajkot hosted two of the seventeen inside twelve months in 2016 and 2017, both against Gujarat Lions, from the ten IPL matches the ground has ever staged.
• Only one ten-wicket win has come against a target above 190, and only two against targets above 180.
• The average target across the seventeen is 138, which is the plainest statement of what these matches usually are: a first innings that failed rather than a chase that excelled.

The matching list for defences is on the IPL biggest wins by runs page, the largest targets ever run down on the IPL highest successful chases page, and the batting that drives these innings on the IPL most runs in chases page. The Gujarat Titans hub covers the club holding the largest wicketless chase, and the cricket in India hub places the competition in the domestic season.

Sources and method

Wicket margins are taken from the recorded match outcome in the Cricsheet ball-by-ball archive (cricsheet.org, ODC-BY 1.0), covering all 1,243 IPL matches from 18 April 2008 to 31 May 2026, and every chase was re-derived from the deliveries to confirm the balls remaining.

Balls to spare are the allotted deliveries for the second innings minus the legal deliveries actually faced, so a chase completed in 9.4 overs of a twenty-over allocation has 62 remaining. Where a match was shortened, the allocation used is the one in force for that innings, and the Cape Town match of April 2009 is the only ten-wicket win affected: Delhi were set a Duckworth-Lewis target of 58 from a reduced allocation, and the 91 balls to spare are measured against that allocation rather than against a full twenty overs. Its target column shows the revised figure, not the first-innings score. The fastest-chases table is restricted to matches where both sides had twenty overs, so that comparisons of pace are made on a common allocation.

Only wins by a wickets margin appear here; a side batting first cannot win by wickets, so every entry is a successful chase. Targets shown are the runs required, which is the first-innings total plus one. Club rows in the 9-and-10-wicket table merge Delhi Daredevils into Delhi Capitals, Kings XI Punjab into Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore into Royal Challengers Bengaluru; the ranked lists keep the name in use at the time. Season labels are the calendar year of the tournament, so the 2020 edition played in the UAE from September to November is shown as 2020. All figures close with the 2026 final.