IPL Highest Successful Chases: All-Time Records

Punjab Kings were set 265 to beat Delhi Capitals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on 25 April 2026 and got there with seven balls to spare, four wickets down. It is the largest successful chase in Indian Premier League history and the second time Punjab have run down a target above 260 — they had already overhauled Kolkata's 261 at Eden Gardens in April 2024, a record that lasted two years.

Chasing has always been the more attractive option in this competition. Across 1,237 completed matches with two innings, the side batting second has won 666 of them, a fraction under 54 per cent. But that figure conceals the important part: the bigger the target, the sharper the fall. Sides asked for 180 or more have won 32 per cent of the time; sides asked for 230 or more have won four times out of forty-eight.

Everything below is derived from ball-by-ball records of all 1,243 Indian Premier League matches from April 2008 to the 2026 final.

Every successful chase of 213 or more

#	Score	Overs	Target	Team	Opponent	Venue	Date	Match award
1	265/4	18.5	265	Punjab Kings	Delhi Capitals	Delhi	25 Apr 2026	KL Rahul
2	262/2	18.4	262	Punjab Kings	Kolkata Knight Riders	Kolkata	26 Apr 2024	Jonny Bairstow
3	249/4	18.4	244	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Mumbai Indians	Mumbai	29 Apr 2026	Heinrich Klaasen
4	247/2	18.3	246	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Punjab Kings	Hyderabad	12 Apr 2025	Abhishek Sharma
5	230/4	18.4	228	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	Lucknow Super Giants	Lucknow	27 May 2025	Jitesh Sharma
6	229/5	18.3	229	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Rajasthan Royals	Jaipur	25 Apr 2026	Ishan Kishan
7	229/4	18.4	229	Mumbai Indians	Lucknow Super Giants	Mumbai	4 May 2026	Ryan Rickelton
8	228/4	19.2	223	Rajasthan Royals	Punjab Kings	New Chandigarh	28 Apr 2026	Donovan Ferreira
9	226/6	19.3	224	Rajasthan Royals	Kings XI Punjab	Sharjah	27 Sep 2020	Sanju Samson
10	226/3	19.1	226	Delhi Capitals	Rajasthan Royals	Jaipur	1 May 2026	KL Rahul
11	225/3	19.1	221	Rajasthan Royals	Lucknow Super Giants	Jaipur	19 May 2026	Vaibhav Suryavanshi
12	224/8	20.0	224	Rajasthan Royals	Kolkata Knight Riders	Kolkata	16 Apr 2024	Jos Buttler
13	224/4	19.1	221	Mumbai Indians	Kolkata Knight Riders	Mumbai	29 Mar 2026	Shardul Thakur
14	223/4	18.5	220	Punjab Kings	Sunrisers Hyderabad	New Chandigarh	11 Apr 2026	Shreyas Iyer
15	219/6	20.0	219	Mumbai Indians	Chennai Super Kings	Delhi	1 May 2021	Kieron Pollard
16	219/3	18.4	215	Gujarat Titans	Rajasthan Royals	New Chandigarh	29 May 2026	Shubman Gill
17	217/7	19.5	215	Rajasthan Royals	Deccan Chargers	Hyderabad	24 Apr 2008	Yusuf Pathan
18	217/6	20.0	215	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Rajasthan Royals	Jaipur	7 May 2023	Glenn Phillips
19	216/4	18.5	215	Mumbai Indians	Punjab Kings	Chandigarh	3 May 2023	Ishan Kishan
20	216/7	19.0	211	Delhi Capitals	Punjab Kings	Dharamsala	11 May 2026	Manvanth Tiwari
21	215/6	19.1	215	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Punjab Kings	Hyderabad	19 May 2024	Abhishek Sharma
22	214/3	17.3	209	Delhi Daredevils	Gujarat Lions	Delhi	4 May 2017	Rishabh Pant
23	214/4	19.3	213	Mumbai Indians	Rajasthan Royals	Mumbai	30 Apr 2023	Yashasvi Jaiswal
24	213/9	20.0	213	Lucknow Super Giants	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Bengaluru	10 Apr 2023	Nicholas Pooran
25	213/4	19.3	211	Lucknow Super Giants	Chennai Super Kings	Chennai	23 Apr 2024	Marcus Stoinis

Thirteen of the twenty-five are from 2026 or 2025. Only four predate 2023, and one of those — Rajasthan's 217 for 7 at Hyderabad — came in the competition's opening fortnight in April 2008, when nobody had any idea what a par score was.

The three chases nobody expected

Punjab's 265 for 4 is the outlier of the whole record, and the way it happened matters. Delhi had made 264 for 2, with KL Rahul unbeaten on 152 from 67 balls — the third-largest individual score in IPL history — and Nitish Rana 91 from 44 alongside him. Punjab answered with four scores of 43 or more in the top five, Prabhsimran Singh's 76 from 26 balls the quickest of them, and Shreyas Iyer 71 not out from 36 to close it. It is one of only three matches in which both sides have passed 260, and Punjab were involved in two of them.

The Sharjah chase of 2020 is the oldest entry in the top ten and the only one from outside India. Kings XI Punjab made 223 for 2, Rajasthan replied with 226 for 6 in 19.3 overs, and Rahul Tewatia's eighteenth over is the reason the match is remembered. He had 17 from his first 24 balls, then hit Sheldon Cottrell for six, six, six, six, dot, six — five in the over — and finished with 53 from 31. On Sharjah's short square boundaries, that over was an early sign of how far the arithmetic of chasing was about to shift.

Rajasthan's 224 for 8 at Eden Gardens in 2024 is the only chase in the top twelve completed off the final ball. Every other one finished with at least three deliveries to spare, which is a pattern rather than an accident: a side that successfully chases a very large total almost always does it comfortably, because a chase of that size is either well ahead of the rate or dead.

How often big targets are actually chased down

Target	Matches	Chased	Success rate
180 or more	451	145	32%
190 or more	324	89	27%
200 or more	225	55	24%
210 or more	143	28	20%
220 or more	86	14	16%
230 or more	48	4	8%
240 or more	27	4	15%
250 or more	15	2	13%

The curve does what you would expect down to 230 and then does something odd: sides chasing 240 or more have a better record than sides chasing 230 or more. That is a sample-size artefact rather than a real effect — twenty-seven matches is too few — but it is worth stating rather than smoothing away, and it happens because the four successful 230-plus chases all came against targets of 244 or higher.

The headline number to take from the table is 24 per cent. A total of 200 is still, after nineteen seasons and all the scoring inflation, a total that wins three matches in four.

Chasing by season

Season	Matches	Won by the chasing side	Share
2008	58	36	62%
2010	60	28	47%
2013	76	37	49%
2015	58	24	41%
2016	60	41	68%
2019	60	35	58%
2022	74	37	50%
2023	73	33	45%
2024	71	36	51%
2025	72	37	51%
2026	73	45	62%

There is no trend here, which is the interesting part. The chasing side's win share has bounced between 41 and 68 per cent since 2008 with no relationship to the enormous rise in scoring. Higher totals have not made chasing harder, because the same conditions that let a side make 200 let the other side chase it.

2016 remains the best season to bat second in and 2015 the worst. The last three seasons — 51, 51 and 62 per cent — sit either side of the long-run figure of just under 54.

Which clubs chase

Club	200-plus targets faced	Chased down
Mumbai Indians	28	8
Punjab Kings	15	8
Rajasthan Royals	23	7
Sunrisers Hyderabad	23	6
Chennai Super Kings	16	4
Delhi Capitals	18	4
Royal Challengers Bengaluru	9	4
Kolkata Knight Riders	22	3
Lucknow Super Giants	11	3
Gujarat Titans	14	3
Kings XI Punjab	15	3

Punjab under their current name have chased eight of fifteen — better than one in two, against a competition rate of one in four — and their earlier Kings XI incarnation managed three from fifteen. That is not the same club playing better; it is a different squad in a different decade, and it is why the two names are kept apart here.

Mumbai Indians have faced more 200-plus targets than anyone and converted eight. Kolkata Knight Riders have faced twenty-two and converted three, the worst record of the established clubs.

The men who finish these chases

Match awards in the twenty-five biggest successful chases went to twenty-two different players, and only three appear twice: KL Rahul, Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan. Rahul's two came six days apart in 2026 — the first for the 152 not out that was beaten, the second for a chase of 226 that was not.

Twenty-four of the twenty-five went to a batter. The exception is Shardul Thakur, whose award at the Wankhede in March 2026 came for three for 39 in the first innings rather than for anything he did in the chase, and it is the only time a bowler has been given the match in one of these games. A side needing 220 has no room to lose the powerplay, and the fielding side is rarely close enough to the result for anyone in it to be honoured.

Three things the chase record shows

The ceiling has moved further than the floor. The largest successful chase in the competition's first fifteen seasons was 226; it is now 265. Meanwhile, the proportion of 200-plus targets successfully chased has grown only from around a fifth to around a quarter.

The best chasing sides are not the best sides. Chennai and Mumbai have won more titles than anyone; their 200-plus chase records are four from sixteen and eight from twenty-eight. Punjab, who have never won the competition, have the best conversion rate of any club.

One venue does most of it. Jaipur, New Chandigarh and Mumbai each appear three or more times in the top twenty-five, and all of it from 2023 onwards — the same period covered on the IPL highest team totals page, where the first-innings scores that made these chases necessary are ranked. The individual innings that carried them are on the IPL highest individual scores page, and the bowling side of the same matches on the IPL most wickets page.

The tournament's place in the Indian season is set out on the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

Every chase on this page was recomputed from the Cricsheet ball-by-ball archive (cricsheet.org, ODC-BY 1.0), which holds a complete delivery record for the 1,243 IPL matches played between 18 April 2008 and 31 May 2026.

A successful chase is a match in which the side batting second reached or passed its target and won. Targets are taken from the match record rather than inferred from the first innings, so matches shortened or revised by rain carry the revised target the chasing side actually faced. Six matches in the archive have no second innings and are excluded from every rate on this page, which is why the denominator for chase percentages is 1,237 rather than 1,243.

Overs are legal deliveries faced by the chasing side, in the usual notation, so 18.5 means 113 balls. Wickets include run-outs. Super overs are excluded: a tie followed by a super-over win is not counted as a successful chase, because the target was not passed in the twenty overs.

Success-rate bands are cumulative — the "200 or more" row includes every match in the rows below it — and the bands themselves are our own choice, printed here so the shape of the curve can be checked. Club rows split franchises that changed name, because Kings XI Punjab and Punjab Kings fielded different squads in different eras and merging them would hide the whole point of that row. Season labels are the calendar year the tournament was played, and all figures close with the 2026 final.