Lowest IPL Totals of All 10 Teams: When It All Fell Apart

Some IPL innings end on the wrong side of records. The kind where you check the scorecard twice because the total looks like a misprint.

The kind where no one reaches double digits, and the match wraps up before the second innings even break a sweat.

Every IPL team – all ten of them — has had at least one of those innings. One franchise was dismissed for under 50.

Lowest IPL Totals of All 10 Teams

These are the lowest IPL totals of all 10 teams, ranked from the merely embarrassing to the historically brutal.

The Lowest IPL Totals of All 10 Teams — Ranked

🔟 Gujarat Titans — 89 vs Delhi Capitals (IPL 2024)

GT put up 89 at their home ground in Ahmedabad against the Delhi Capitals in 2024. Batting first and failing to cross 90 is a rough position — Delhi knocked it off with six wickets and plenty of overs to spare. It’s GT’s worst-ever total, and the home crowd had little to cheer about that afternoon.

9️⃣ Mumbai Indians — 87 vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (IPL 2018)

MI chased 119 at Wankhede and folded for 87. Only two batters — Suryakumar Yadav and Krunal Pandya — managed double figures. For a franchise with five IPL titles to its name, it was an unusually toothless batting display. SRH took the win by 31 runs.

8️⃣ Sunrisers Hyderabad — 86 vs Gujarat Titans (IPL 2026)

SRH’s lowest-ever total arrived in 2026 against GT, who had posted 168/5 in the first innings. Kagiso Rabada and Prasidh Krishna each took three wickets as Hyderabad’s lineup came apart without resistance. Given SRH’s batting depth in recent years, it was a result nobody saw coming.

7️⃣ Lucknow Super Giants — 82 vs Gujarat Titans (IPL 2022)

LSG’s debut season produced its worst-ever total in its very first year. Chasing 145 in Pune, eight batters fell for single digits. Rashid Khan picked up four wickets and barely needed any support — 82 all out is a difficult scorecard to defend in any post-match conversation.

6️⃣ Chennai Super Kings — 79 vs Mumbai Indians (IPL 2013)

In one of the rivalry’s more one-sided chapters, CSK chased 140 and managed 79. Mitchell Johnson and Pragyan Ojha each took three wickets, and the Chennai batting order ran out of answers fast. A 60-run defeat against arch-rivals. Painful doesn’t quite cover it.

5️⃣ Punjab Kings — 73 vs Rising Pune Supergiant (IPL 2017)

Kings XI Punjab, under Glenn Maxwell, posted 73 in the first innings of their 2017 clash with Rising Pune Supergiant. Pune chased it in 12 overs, winning by nine wickets. A nine-wicket loss means the bowling side barely had to think — which tells you everything about how that innings went.

4️⃣ Kolkata Knight Riders — 67 vs Mumbai Indians (IPL 2008)

KKR’s all-time low came in the inaugural IPL season — the very first edition of the tournament. Bundled out for 67 with no batter crossing 20, they were chased down with ease. Sanath Jayasuriya stayed unbeaten on 48 to finish it off. MI won by eight wickets. Some records stick around for a long time.

3️⃣ Delhi Capitals — 66 vs Punjab Kings (IPL 2017)

Delhi Daredevils, as they were known then, posted 66 at the IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali. Punjab didn’t lose a single wicket in reply — a 10-wicket win is about as complete a victory as T20 cricket offers. DC’s batting offered no partnership, no anchor, nothing. Just a collapse from start to finish.

2️⃣ Rajasthan Royals — 58 vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (IPL 2009)

This one belongs to Anil Kumble. At 38, Kumble bowled RR out for 58 with a five-wicket haul that ran through the lineup with quiet, clinical precision. RCB had made 133/8 — not a dominating total — but Kumble made it look like 250. RR lost by 75 runs. One of the great individual IPL bowling performances.

1️⃣ Royal Challengers Bengaluru — 49 vs Kolkata Knight Riders (IPL 2017) ⚡ IPL All-Time Low

The lowest team score in IPL history. Target: 132. RCB’s response: 49 all out in 9.4 overs. Not a single batter reached double figures. Three KKR bowlers took three wickets each — a shared demolition job that left nothing standing. For a team with some of the most iconic batting names in IPL history, it remains the one innings no one at RCB wants to remember.

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The One Year That Broke Three Teams

IPL 2017 deserves a special mention. Three of the ten all-time franchise lows happened in the same season: RCB’s 49, Delhi’s 66, and Punjab’s 73.

Whether that says something about bowling standards that year, pitch conditions, or just statistical coincidence is hard to pin down.

But no other single IPL season comes close to producing that many historic lows across different teams.

FAQs

• What is the lowest score ever made by a team in the IPL?

Royal Challengers Bengaluru scored just 49 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2017 — the lowest team total in the history of the tournament.

• Which team has the lowest score among all IPL franchises?

Gujarat Titans, whose worst total is 89, have the highest floor of any IPL team on this list. That’s a relatively positive, though still not a score that wins many T20 matches.

• How many IPL teams have been bowled out for under 70?

Three – Kolkata Knight Riders (67), Delhi Capitals (66), and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (49).

• Which bowler performed best in these low-scoring collapses?

Anil Kumble’s five-wicket haul against Rajasthan Royals in 2009 and Rashid Khan’s four-wicket performance against LSG in 2022 stand out as the most dominant individual efforts among these matches.

• Why do T20 batting collapses happen so fast?

In T20 cricket, early wickets create a compound effect — required run rate spikes, batters coming in fresh face a bowling side in rhythm, and risk-taking leads to further dismissals. One or two early losses can unravel an entire lineup inside five overs.

Conclusion:

The IPL is famous for its big scores — but these innings are part of the record books too.

RCB’s 49 in 2017 is the floor, the number every other low-scoring innings gets compared against.

But from Gujarat’s 89 to Kolkata’s 67 in the first-ever season, every franchise has had a day the batting group would quietly like to forget.

The table above is your quick reference. The match stories above it are the reason each number happened.

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