The Lowest IPL Totals of All 10 Teams: No Batter Safe

133 runs on the board. A decent IPL target – not huge, but enough to defend. The opposition walks out to bat.

Nine overs and four balls later, it’s over. They’ve been bowled out for 49.

That’s what happened to RCB at Eden Gardens in 2017, and it’s the most extreme data point in a pattern that runs through all ten IPL franchises: every single team has had a day where the batting just stopped working entirely.

Lowest IPL Totals of All 10 Teams

These are the lowest IPL totals of all 10 teams — ranked, and told through the spells that made them possible.

Lowest IPL Totals of All 10 Teams — The Bowlers Who Made It Happen

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

GT’s lowest total came batting first at home in Ahmedabad. 89 all out against Delhi Capitals — a total that barely threatens any T20 side. DC chased it with six wickets in hand. A forgettable first innings from a franchise that usually bats deep.

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

119 to win at Wankhede. MI came up 32 short, bowled out for 87. Suryakumar Yadav and Krunal Pandya were the only batters who made it to double figures. SRH’s bowling unit shared the wickets evenly — no single bowler blew the innings apart, which made it worse. The collapse was collective, and so was the defeat.

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

GT set 169. Kagiso Rabada and Prasidh Krishna each took three wickets and SRH folded for 86 — their worst total ever. Rabada in particular provided the pace and bounce that unsettled the top order early, and once that happened, the innings never recovered. A mismatch that looked more like 300 vs 86 in terms of effort.

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

Rashid Khan’s name appears repeatedly in IPL low-score records, and this was one of his best days. Four wickets to help dismantle LSG for 82 while chasing 145 in Pune. Eight of LSG’s batters were dismissed in single digits. It was their debut season, and their worst batting performance occurred within it.

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

Mitchell Johnson at full pace in the IPL is a difficult proposition, and in this 2013 clash, he combined with Pragyan Ojha — three wickets each — to reduce CSK to 79 chasing 140. The Chennai lineup found no momentum at any stage. A 60-run loss to Mumbai in an IPL rivalry match is the kind of result that gets brought up for years afterward.

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

Glenn Maxwell’s Punjab side were put away for 73 in the 55th match of IPL 2017. Pune knocked it off in 12 overs without breaking a sweat — nine wickets to spare. A 73-run total batting first isn’t a platform; it’s an invitation. Pune accepted without hesitation.

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

The IPL’s first season, and KKR were already making the wrong kind of history. Bundled out for 67, with Sanath Jayasuriya completing the chase almost single-handedly — 48 not out, eight-wicket win for MI. No KKR batter passed 20. Some records from 2008 still haven’t been broken.

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

66 all out at Mohali. Punjab needed zero wickets to win — they chased it without losing a single one. A 10-wicket defeat is the most comprehensive loss format T20 cricket has, and Delhi Daredevils delivered it to Punjab on a plate. Three figures would have been a stretch; 66 didn’t test anyone.

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

Anil Kumble was 38 years old and still doing this. A five-wicket haul that demolished RR for 58 in reply to RCB’s 133/8 — a total that had looked gettable. Kumble’s control, flight, and variation gave the Rajasthan batters nothing to work with. RCB won by 75 runs. One of the sharpest individual bowling performances the IPL has ever seen.

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

The number nobody has touched since 2017. KKR set 132. RCB replied with 49 in 9.4 overs, with the innings shared equally between three bowlers — three wickets apiece. No RCB batter reached double figures. The innings was over before most viewers had finished their first over-break snack. It is, and remains, the lowest team score in IPL history.

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What These Innings Have in Common?

Look at the bowling side in each of these matches, and a pattern emerges: in almost every case, the damage wasn’t done by a single bowler.

It was shared — two or three bowlers in rhythm, each taking a cluster of wickets, leaving the batting side no corner of the lineup to rebuild from.

RCB’s 49: three bowlers, three wickets each. Punjab’s collapse in 2017: similar distribution.

Even Kumble’s five-for came in a match where other bowlers applied pressure from the other end.

T20 collapses aren’t usually about one unplayable spell. They’re about a bowling side that never gives a batter a loose over to settle into.

FAQs

• What is the lowest total ever in an IPL match?

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

• Which IPL team has never been bowled out for under 80?

Gujarat Titans hold the best record here, with a lowest total of 89. Every other franchise has been dismissed for 87 or fewer at least once.

• Have any IPL teams been bowled out twice for historic lows?

Of the franchises listed, RCB appears on both ends of the record — they hold the all-time low (49) and also dismissed Rajasthan Royals for 58 in 2009 through Kumble’s five-wicket haul.

• Which IPL season had the most low-score collapses?

IPL 2017 produced three all-time franchise lows in a single season — RCB (49), Delhi (66), and Punjab (73) — more than any other year.

• Is a 10-wicket loss always linked to a historically low score?

Not always, but two of the ten entries here — Delhi’s 66 and KKR’s 67 — resulted in 10-wicket or near-10-wicket defeats, showing that sub-70 totals rarely survive any kind of chase.

Conclusion:

Every number on this list has a match behind it, a bowling performance that made it happen, and a batting side that ran out of answers.

RCB’s 49 is the floor — set in 2017, untouched since.

But from KKR’s 67 in 2008 all the way up to GT’s 89 in 2024, each franchise carries its own low-water mark.

The table gives you the facts. The match stories above it explain why the numbers happened.

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