Lowest Team Scores in IPL History

When T20 cricket first came in 2003, several people asked a simple question, what is an ideal score? However, soon, people found out that the question itself had many iterations. On some tracks, in a certain situation, 200 will be difficult to defend, while sometimes 100 runs can be also defended. 

The Indian Premier League is a T20 competition famous for big-hitting. Its latest upcoming sixteenth edition is set to take place from Friday, March 31, 2023 as Gujarat Titans, the winners of last year competiton lock horns with four-time winners Chennai Super Kings in Ahmedabad.

In a country that produces a quality batsman every now and then, it is tough to believe that there have been really, really low scores in the IPL. As a matter of fact, there have been 45 occasions of a team not being able to score 100 runs. There have been much lower scores in the IPL. Let us look back at-

Lowest 7 team totals in the IPL history

7. Royal Challengers Bangalore 68 vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, 2022

Royal Challengers Bangalore were stunned by the SRH pacers at the Brabourne Stadium after opting to bowl first. RCB were skittled for just 68 runs in the 17th over of the innings. Marco Jansen was the wrecker-in-chief picking up three wickets – Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli and Anuj Rawat – in a single over with the new ball. No other batter could play the anchor role as well with SRH picking wickets at regular intervals.

Only Glenn Maxwell and Suyash Prabhudessai could reach the double-figures for RCB as they were bundled out pretty early. Apart from Jansen, Natarajan also picked up three wickets and conceded only 10 runs while Jagadeesha Suchith also impressed with his figures of 2/12.

Interestingly, RCB’s low score came on the same day when they were bundled out for 49 runs, the lowest in the history of IPL in 2017. Another interesting fact is on the same day, they registered the highest score of IPL history as well.