Lowest IPL Totals of All 10 Teams: The Collapses That Still Hurt

Every IPL fan remembers the wins.

The last-ball finishes, the century partnerships, the impossible chases pulled off at midnight.

But the collapses? Those stick around, too.

Across seventeen-plus seasons, every franchise — no matter how stacked their squad — has produced at least one innings that ended far too early.

Some of these disasters came in the tournament’s first year.

Some came from champion teams in peak form. And the worst of them all lasted less than ten overs.

Lowest IPL Totals of All 10 Teams

Here is the complete breakdown of the lowest IPL totals of all 10 teams — ranked, contextualised, and with the full story behind each one.

Lowest IPL Totals of All 10 Teams — Full Ranked List

10. Gujarat Titans — 89 | IPL 2024

GT’s worst batting day came in 2024, their fourth season. Batting first at Narendra Modi Stadium — their home ground — against Delhi Capitals, they folded for 89. For a franchise that had reached back-to-back finals in their debut years, the result felt badly out of character. DC chased it down comfortably, winning with six wickets to spare.

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9. Mumbai Indians — 87 | IPL 2018

Three-time IPL champions at that point, and still, MI managed to fall for 87 while chasing 119 at Wankhede. Suryakumar Yadav and Krunal Pandya were the only batters to reach double figures. SRH’s bowling was controlled without being electric — which made MI’s 31-run defeat look even harder to explain.

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8. Sunrisers Hyderabad — 86 | IPL 2026

The freshest entry on this list. SRH — the side that posted 287 in a single innings during IPL 2024 — were bowled out for 86 by the Gujarat Titans in 2026. Kagiso Rabada and Prasidh Krishna took three wickets each. Given SRH’s batting reputation built over recent seasons, this was a result that left their fanbase genuinely stunned.

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7. Lucknow Super Giants — 82 | IPL 2022

The IPL offers no soft introductions. LSG’s lowest score arrived in their debut season, chasing 145 against GT in Pune. Rashid Khan took four wickets. Eight of LSG’s batters failed to reach double figures. 82 all out. For a franchise that had approached its first auction with care, this was a sharp early lesson in how fast T20 batting can collapse.

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6. Chennai Super Kings — 79 | IPL 2013

Two-time champions, experienced batting lineup, settled squad — none of it helped when Mitchell Johnson and Pragyan Ojha both took three wickets in CSK’s chase of 140 against the Mumbai Indians. They were bowled out for 79 and lost by 60 runs. The CSK-MI rivalry has produced far more memorable contests than this one.

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5. Punjab Kings — 73 | IPL 2017

In the 55th match of IPL 2017, Punjab — captained by Glenn Maxwell — were all out for 73 against Rising Pune Supergiant. Pune chased it in 12 overs, losing just one wicket. A score of 73 gives your bowlers nowhere to hide, and Pune made sure of that from the first over.

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4. Kolkata Knight Riders — 67 | IPL 2008

In the first IPL season, KKR were already finding new ways to disappoint. Bowled out for 67 against the Mumbai Indians in match 38, no KKR batter crossed 20. Sanath Jayasuriya finished unbeaten on 48, wrapping up the chase with ease. That result from 2008 still stands as KKR’s franchise low — seventeen seasons later.

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3. Delhi Capitals — 66 | IPL 2017

Delhi Daredevils posted 66 at Mohali against Punjab, who knocked it off without losing a single wicket. A 10-wicket win is T20 cricket’s maximum margin of victory. Delhi handed it to Punjab without offering any resistance — no stand, no fightback, nothing from start to finish.

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2. Rajasthan Royals — 58 | IPL 2009

RR were taken apart for 58 in the 2009 season by a five-wicket haul from Anil Kumble, who was 38 years old at the time. RCB had posted 133/8, with Rahul Dravid contributing a half-century. That total barely looked threatening — until Kumble made it look like 250. RCB won by 75 runs, and to this day, no team has posted a lower total against them in IPL cricket.

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1. Royal Challengers Bengaluru — 49 | IPL 2017 ⚡ All-Time IPL Low

The lowest team score in IPL history. Set 132 by KKR at Eden Gardens, RCB’s chase ended in 9.4 overs. The final score: 49 all out. Three KKR bowlers took three wickets each. Not a single RCB batter reached double figures. Nearly a decade has passed, and nothing has come close to matching it.

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Why IPL 2017 Stands Completely Alone?

Three entries on this list — three all-time franchise lows — came from a single season.

IPL 2017 produced RCB’s 49, Delhi’s 66, and Punjab’s 73. No other edition of the tournament has more than one.

That concentration of historically bad batting in a single year is unlike anything the IPL has seen before or since.

What makes it stranger is that IPL 2017 was not a consistently low-scoring tournament. The surfaces were not uniformly difficult.

These were not results driven by unusual conditions across the board.

The collapses were sudden, isolated, and specific — particular batting lineups falling apart on particular days, with no obvious shared cause.

It is the most batting-destructive season in IPL history, even if most people did not clock that while it was happening.

The Teams That Set Their Low in Their First Season

Two franchises managed their all-time worst batting performance before they had even completed a full season.

KKR did it in 2008 — the inaugural IPL year, before anyone knew what the tournament would become.

LSG did it in 2022, their very first season after being awarded a franchise. The IPL does not wait for teams to find their footing.

 

FAQs

• What is the lowest team score in IPL history?

Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s 49 against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2017. The chase lasted 9.4 overs, and no RCB batter reached double figures. It remains the all-time IPL low.

• Which season produced the most all-time franchise lows?

IPL 2017 — three franchise lows in one season: RCB’s 49, Delhi’s 66, and Punjab’s 73. No other edition comes close to that concentration of historically bad batting days.

• Which franchises set their all-time low in their debut season?

Kolkata Knight Riders (67 in 2008, the inaugural season) and Lucknow Super Giants (82 in 2022, their first year in the IPL).

• Which team has the least damaging all-time low?

Gujarat Titans, with a franchise-low of 89 — the only team on this list whose worst innings crossed 85. Every other franchise has been bowled out for 87 or fewer at least once.

• What is the lowest score by a team batting first on this list?

Gujarat Titans’ 89 in IPL 2024 against Delhi Capitals. RCB’s record 49, by comparison, was set while chasing.

• Has any franchise come close to breaking RCB’s record of 49?

Not yet. The next lowest on this list is Rajasthan Royals’ 58 from 2009 — a nine-run gap that has held for over fifteen years.

Wrapping It Up

From KKR’s 67 in the tournament’s first year to SRH’s 86 in 2026, every IPL franchise has had a day when everything with the bat went wrong at once.

RCB’s 49 remains the floor. Set in 2017 at Eden Gardens, it is the lowest team score in IPL history — and despite nearly a decade of cricket since, no one has come close to replicating it.

Whether that record eventually falls depends on what future seasons bring. For now, it stands alone.