Lowest IPL Totals of All 10 Teams

Seventeen-plus seasons of IPL cricket, and every single franchise has had that one innings — the one fans still wince about.

Some collapses happened in a team’s debut year. Some came from title-winning sides with international stars at the top of the order.

And one happened while chasing fewer than 135 runs, lasted under ten overs, and produced the lowest team score in IPL history.

Lowest IPL Totals of All 10 Teams

Here are the lowest IPL totals of all 10 teams, in order from least shocking to most — with the full context around each one.

The Lowest IPL Totals of All 10 Teams, Ranked

10. Gujarat Titans — 89 | IPL 2024

GT’s worst came in their fourth season. Batting first at Narendra Modi Stadium against Delhi Capitals, Shubman Gill’s side were bundled out for 89. For a franchise that had reached consecutive finals in its first two years, it was a jarring result on home soil. DC knocked it off with six wickets to spare.

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9. Mumbai Indians — 87 | IPL 2018

By 2018, MI had won the IPL three times. That makes folding for 87 while chasing 119 at their home ground all the more baffling. Only Suryakumar Yadav and Krunal Pandya reached double figures. SRH’s bowlers were tidy without being unplayable — and that made MI’s 31-run loss look even worse.

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8. Sunrisers Hyderabad — 86 | IPL 2026

The most recent entry on this list. SRH — the same franchise 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 each took three wickets. The contrast with SRH’s big-hitting reputation made this result genuinely difficult to explain.

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7. Lucknow Super Giants — 82 | IPL 2022

No grace period in the IPL. LSG’s worst innings came in their very first season, chasing 145 against GT in Pune. Rashid Khan took four wickets. Eight batters failed to reach double figures. 82 all out. For a franchise that had recruited deliberately in their debut auction, this was a brutal early lesson in how fast T20 cricket can unravel.

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6. Chennai Super Kings — 79 | IPL 2013

CSK in 2013 were two-time IPL champions with a settled, experienced batting lineup. None of that mattered when Mitchell Johnson and Pragyan Ojha each took three wickets in a chase of 140 against Mumbai Indians. CSK were bowled out for 79, losing by 60 runs. The CSK vs MI rivalry has produced plenty of memorable matches — this was not one of them, at least not for CSK fans.

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5. Punjab Kings — 73 | IPL 2017

Under Glenn Maxwell’s captaincy, Punjab were all out for 73 against Rising Pune Supergiant in the 55th match of the 2017 season. Pune chased it in 12 overs, losing just one wicket. A first-innings total of 73 puts any bowling attack in an almost impossible position, and Pune made sure Punjab’s bowlers had no chance at all.

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4. Kolkata Knight Riders — 67 | IPL 2008

The inaugural IPL season, and KKR were already setting records they’d rather forget. Bowled out for 67 against the Mumbai Indians in match 38 of a brand-new tournament, no KKR batter crossed 20. Sanath Jayasuriya finished the chase unbeaten on 48. It is the kind of result that KKR fans spent the next seventeen years trying to move past. The record still stands.

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3. Delhi Capitals — 66 | IPL 2017

Two of the worst three totals on this list arrived in the same season. Delhi Daredevils posted 66 at Mohali, and Punjab chased it without losing a wicket — a 10-wicket win, which is the highest margin of victory T20 cricket allows. There was no recovery, no meaningful partnership, and no resistance from the opening onwards.

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2. Rajasthan Royals — 58 | IPL 2009

In IPL 2009, RR were dismantled for 58 by a five-wicket haul from Anil Kumble, who was 38 years old at the time. RCB had posted 133/8, with Rahul Dravid scoring a half-century. That total looked gettable until Kumble made it look enormous. RCB won by 75 runs. Sixteen years on, no team has posted a lower total against RCB in IPL history.

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

The worst batting collapse in IPL history. Set 132 by KKR at Eden Gardens, RCB’s chase lasted 9.4 overs. Final score: 49 all out. Three KKR bowlers took three wickets each. Not a single RCB batter reached double figures. It remains the lowest team score in the history of the tournament — and it happened in the same season that also produced two other all-time franchise lows.

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IPL 2017: The Season That Quietly Broke Batting Records

Three all-time franchise lows in a single season is not something you can dismiss as a coincidence.

IPL 2017 gave us RCB’s 49, Delhi’s 66, and Punjab’s 73 — all in the same edition.

No other IPL season has produced more than one all-time franchise low in the same year.

What makes it stranger: 2017 was not a low-scoring tournament overall.

These were not results produced by unusual pitches or extreme conditions across the board.

The collapses were sudden, isolated, and belonged to specific batting lineups falling apart on specific days.

Whether it reflects a vintage bowling year, certain matchup quirks, or statistical clustering is difficult to say for certain.

But the numbers are clear — 2017 remains the most devastating season for batting in IPL history, at least when it comes to historic lows.

 

FAQs

• Which year produced the most historically low IPL totals?

IPL 2017 — by some distance. Three all-time franchise lows were recorded in a single season: RCB’s 49, Delhi’s 66, and Punjab’s 73. No other edition has produced more than one.

• Which franchise set its all-time low in its very first IPL season?

Two franchises did: Kolkata Knight Riders (67 in the inaugural 2008 season) and Lucknow Super Giants (82 in their debut year, 2022).

• What is the all-time lowest team score in IPL history?

Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s 49 against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2017. The innings lasted just 9.4 overs.

• Which team has the highest “lowest total” — meaning their worst innings were still the least bad?

Gujarat Titans, with a franchise-low of 89. Every other team on this list has been bowled out for 87 or fewer at least once.

• Has any franchise’s all-time low been broken more than once?

Based on current records, each franchise holds a single all-time low. These records tend to be durable — KKR’s 67 from 2008 has survived seventeen seasons without being beaten.

• What is the lowest total posted while batting first in IPL history (from this list)?

Gujarat Titans’ 89 in 2024 against Delhi Capitals is the lowest first-innings total on this list. RCB’s record 49 was set while chasing.

Conclusion:

Across seventeen-plus seasons, every IPL franchise has produced at least one scorecard its fans would rather not revisit.

The records stretch from KKR’s 67 in 2008 — the very first season — all the way to SRH’s 86 in 2026.

RCB’s 49 from 2017 is still the floor. It has been nearly a decade, and nothing has come close to matching it.

Until that changes, Eden Gardens 2017 remains the defining image of T20 batting at its most fragile.