# M Chinnaswamy Stadium Pitch Report: Bengaluru IPL Scores, Toss and Records Source: https://cricketin.org/en/stadiums/m-chinnaswamy-stadium [By Karthik Iyengar](/en/authors/data-editor), Data Editor. [Reviewed by Anjali Deshmukh](/en/authors/cricket-analyst), Cricket Analyst. Updated 11 Nov 2026. Editorial policy: https://cricketin.org/en/editorial-policy 18+. Betting carries financial risk and can become addictive. Free helpline Tele-MANAS: 14416. --- Chinnaswamy pitch report: 194.5 average first innings since 2023, the most sixes of the 10 IPL home grounds, every toss winner fielding, top players. The M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru is a batting ground: since 2023 the average IPL first innings there is 194.5, against 186.4 across all IPL grounds, and it has the most sixes of the ten IPL home grounds, 19.9 a match. Chasing sides have won 56 of 100 decided matches since 2008 and 13 of 24 since 2023, and in all 24 of those recent matches the toss winner chose to field. Data: Cricsheet, IPL 2008 to 2026. Off the field, the Cricketin [game catalogue](/en/casino) runs from Aviator to live Teen Patti. Below are the numbers behind that report, the toss record, the highest total in IPL history, the leading players at the ground and Royal Challengers Bengaluru's home record. ## Chinnaswamy pitch report in numbers The table compares the full IPL record at Chinnaswamy with the seasons since 2023, the five matches of 2026 and the league-wide average since 2022. The same pages open in the [mobile app](/en/app) from your home screen. **Table 1. Chinnaswamy pitch report in numbers. Data: Cricsheet, IPL 2008 to 2026, calculated 11 November 2026. The 2026 column rests on a handful of matches.** | Measure | 2008-2026 | Since 2022 | 2026 season | All IPL grounds since 2022 | |---|---|---|---|---| | IPL matches with a result | 100 | 24 | 5 | 360 | | Average first-innings score | 178.9 | 194.5 | 195.4 | 186.4 | | Average second-innings score | 164.5 | 185.3 | 188.8 | 172.0 | | Side batting second won | 56.0% | 54.2% | 80.0% | 52.2% | | Toss winners who chose to field | 91.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 78.1% | | Toss winner won after choosing to field | 51 of 91 | 13 of 24 | 4 of 5 | 145 of 281 | | Toss winner won after choosing to bat | 4 of 9 | Nobody chose to bat | Nobody chose to bat | 36 of 79 | | Run rate, overs 1-6 | 8.03 | 9.18 | 9.53 | 9.16 | | Run rate, overs 7-15 | 8.51 | 9.51 | 10.36 | 8.74 | | Run rate, overs 16-20 | 10.93 | 11.13 | 10.65 | 10.76 | | Sixes per match | 15.6 | 19.9 | 21.0 | 17.0 | Chinnaswamy was a high-scoring ground before scoring rose across the league. Its full-record average first innings, 178.9, is the highest of the seven home grounds that have hosted the IPL since 2008. Since 2023 the average second innings, 185.3, sits only 9.2 runs below the first, the smallest gap of the ten home grounds, so second innings here have run closest to the first. What drives figures like these is covered in our guide to [pitch conditions](/en/guides/how-pitch-conditions-work). ## Bat first or chase at Chinnaswamy Chasing has the better record without dominating. The side batting second won 56 of 100 decided matches from 2008 to 2026 and 13 of 24 since 2023, and four of five in 2026. That 56.0% places Chinnaswamy sixth of the twenty grounds in our ranking of [chasing venues](/en/compare/best-ipl-venues-for-chasing), with a range wide enough to include an even split. ## Why every toss winner fields here No IPL home ground leans harder towards fielding first. Toss winners chose to field in 91 of 100 decided matches over the full record, and in all 24 since 2023. Not one toss winner has batted first at Chinnaswamy in that time. The choice has not settled much: those 24 toss winners won 13. How that compares with every other ground is on our page about the [IPL toss](/en/compare/ipl-toss-bat-or-bowl-first). ## How the runs come at Chinnaswamy The middle overs set the ground apart. Since 2023 overs 7 to 15 have gone at 9.51 runs an over, the fastest of the ten home grounds and more than three-quarters of a run above the league's 8.74. The powerplay, at 9.18, is close to the league. The boundaries are short. The ICC's 2023 venue guide put them at around 65 metres ([ICC, 20 September 2023](https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/venues-at-the-icc-mens-cricket-world-cup-2023-a-guide)), and Wisden gave the square boundaries as about 55 to 60 metres, the shortest in its guide to that year's ten World Cup grounds ([Wisden, 1 October 2023](https://www.wisden.com/series/icc-mens-cricket-world-cup-2023-24/cricket-news/cwc23-venue-guide-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-10-world-cup-venues-capacity-dimensions-spin-vs-pace-records)). The shortest boundary the playing conditions allow is in our guide to boundary length. ## Highest and lowest totals **Table 2. Record IPL team totals at Chinnaswamy, 2008 to 2026. Data: Cricsheet** | Record | Score | Team | Against | Date | |---|---|---|---|---| | Highest total | 287/3 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 15 Apr 2024 | | Lowest all-out total | 82 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | Kolkata Knight Riders | 18 Apr 2008 | | Highest successful chase | 213/9 | Lucknow Super Giants | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 10 Apr 2023 | | Lowest total defended | 138/7 | Punjab Kings | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 5 May 2017 | Sunrisers Hyderabad's 287 for 3 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru on 15 April 2024 is the highest total in the whole IPL archive. The lowest total at the ground came in the very first IPL match, on 18 April 2008, when Royal Challengers were bowled out for 82 by Kolkata Knight Riders. ## Best players at Chinnaswamy **Table 3. Most IPL runs at Chinnaswamy, 2008 to 2026. Data: Cricsheet** | Batter | Team | Innings | Runs | Strike rate | |---|---|---|---|---| | Virat Kohli | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 96 | 3448 | 145.1 | | AB de Villiers | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 58 | 1960 | 161.2 | | Chris Gayle | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 44 | 1561 | 159.9 | | Faf du Plessis | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 18 | 653 | 159.7 | | KL Rahul | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 16 | 532 | 146.2 | **Table 4. Most IPL wickets at Chinnaswamy, 2008 to 2026. Data: Cricsheet** | Bowler | Team | Matches | Wickets | Economy | |---|---|---|---|---| | Yuzvendra Chahal | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 42 | 54 | 7.64 | | Mohammed Siraj | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 23 | 30 | 8.61 | | Zaheer Khan | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 25 | 28 | 7.89 | | Vinay Kumar | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 24 | 27 | 7.95 | | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 19 | 26 | 8.45 | Virat Kohli's 3,448 runs at Chinnaswamy are the most by any batter at a single IPL ground, more than 800 ahead of Rohit Sharma's 2,632 at Wankhede. Yuzvendra Chahal's 54 wickets are 24 more than the next bowler's total here. ## Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Chinnaswamy [Royal Challengers Bengaluru](/en/teams/ipl-royal-challengers-bengaluru), counted together with their earlier name Royal Challengers Bangalore, have played 100 IPL matches at the ground: 49 wins, 47 defeats, one tie and three no-results, a win rate of 51.0%. Since 2023 the record is 13 wins and 11 defeats. They have won 24 of 42 here when chasing and 25 of 54 when batting first. How every visiting team has fared at Chinnaswamy is on our page of [team records](/en/compare/ipl-team-records-by-venue). ## The ground at a glance **Table 5. Chinnaswamy at a glance** | City | Bengaluru | |---|---| | Home team in 2026 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | | Capacity | 40,000 ([ICC venue profile](https://www.icc-cricket.com/tournaments/cricketworldcup/venues)) | | Opened | Described by the ICC in 2023 as a five-decade-old stadium ([ICC venue profile](https://www.icc-cricket.com/tournaments/cricketworldcup/venues)) | | First IPL match here | 2008 (Cricsheet) | | IPL matches in the archive | 104 to 31 May 2026 | Royal Challengers played five home matches at Chinnaswamy in 2026 and two in Raipur. Next season's dates will appear on the [IPL schedule](/en/leagues/ipl/schedule) page once the fixtures are published. Retention lists, the auction date and squad rules for the next season are on the [IPL 2027](/en/leagues/ipl) hub. Ground records sit next to live scores and match markets on [Cricketin](/en), for adults 18 and over. ## How we counted We downloaded the full IPL archive from Cricsheet on 10 November 2026: 1,243 matches to 31 May 2026, 104 of them at this ground from 2008 to 2026. Cricsheet publishes ball-by-ball data under the Open Data Commons Attribution licence ([Cricsheet downloads](https://cricsheet.org/downloads/)). The "since 2022" column covers the seasons from 2022 on; Bengaluru staged no IPL matches in 2022, so the ground's figures there come from 2023 to 2026. - **Results.** No-result matches (3 here) are left out of every rate. Ties settled by a Super Over (1 here) are left out of the batting-order and toss rates. D/L results (3 here) stay in, and the side batting second counts as the chasing side. - **Average scores.** Full 20-over matches only. The second-innings average includes chases that ended early, so it sits below the first-innings figure by design. - **Phases.** Runs per six legal balls in overs 1-6, 7-15 and 16-20 of both innings. - **Players.** IPL matches at this ground only. The team shown is the one the player represented for most of his deliveries here. Bowlers are not credited with run outs. - **Ground name.** Cricsheet files the ground as "M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore" in 42 matches from 2008 to 2014 and as "M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru" in 62 matches from 2015 to 2026, with the city written as Bangalore in 23 of those and Bengaluru in 39. Its venue registry gives all of them one identifier, so they are counted as one ground. - **Not covered.** Cricsheet does not record bowling style, so wickets are not split into pace and spin. It does not record start times either, so afternoon and evening matches are not separated. Data: Cricsheet. Period: 2008 to 2026. Calculated on 11 November 2026. ## Questions people ask ### Is Chinnaswamy a batting pitch? Yes. Since 2023 the average IPL first-innings score is 194.5, against 186.4 across all IPL grounds, the middle overs go at 9.51 runs an over and the ground averages 19.9 sixes a match, the most of the ten IPL home grounds. ### What is the average first-innings score at Chinnaswamy? 178.9 in full 20-over IPL matches from 2008 to 2026 and 194.5 from 2023 to 2026. The five matches of 2026 averaged 195.4. ### Is it better to bat or bowl first at Chinnaswamy? Chasing has the slightly better record: 56 wins in 100 decided IPL matches since 2008 and 13 in 24 since 2023. Every toss winner since 2023 has chosen to field. ### What is the highest IPL total at Chinnaswamy? 287 for 3 by Sunrisers Hyderabad against Royal Challengers Bengaluru on 15 April 2024, the highest total in IPL history. The lowest is 82 all out by Royal Challengers on 18 April 2008. ### Who has scored the most IPL runs at Chinnaswamy? Virat Kohli, with 3,448 runs in 96 innings, the most by any batter at a single IPL ground. 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