Sawai Mansingh Stadium IPL Records: SMS Jaipur T20 Records, Highest Innings Totals and Successful Run Chase

The biggest T20 league across the globe will return to Jaipur after a four-year gap. 11th out of the 12 Indian Premier League 2023 venues, the city will be hosting the first of its five league matches between Rajasthan Royals and Lucknow Super Giants tomorrow.

Since hosting its last IPL match, Sawai Mansingh Stadium has been witness to Women’s T20 Challenge 2019, an India-New Zealand T20I and a dozen Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2022-23 matches.

Rajasthan, who won and lost a home match each in Guwahati, would be keen to put their best foot forward here. Historically, they have won 37 and lost 15 out of their 52 matches in the “Pink City”. Lucknow, on the contrary, will be playing their first-ever match at this stadium on Wednesday.

Sawai Mansingh Stadium IPL Records (updated)

All the highest IPL run-scorers in Jaipur have represented RR at some point of their individual careers. They are Ajinkya Rahane (1,115), Shane Watson (875), Rahul Dravid (735), Jos Buttler (604) and Sanju Samson (513). Other than Rahane, Buttler and Samson, only Rahul Tripathi (221) is an active IPL 2023 cricketer to have scored more than 200 runs here.

Similarly, highest wicket-takers in IPL matches played at this venue have also been former Royals cricketers namely Siddarth Trivedi (36), Shane Warne (20), Watson (19), Kevon Cooper (17) and Shreyas Gopal (15). Speaking of active IPL 2023 players, Jofra Archer (12), Jaydev Unadkat (10), Ravichandran Ashwin (9) and Krishnappa Gowtham (8) have done well at this stadium.

Jaipur T20 Records (updated)

Highest T20 run-scorers at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium are Rahane (1,338), Watson (969), Dravid (782), Samson (645) and Buttler (604). Talking about active IPL players, Harpreet Singh Bhatia (261), Ambati Rayudu (261), Nitish Rana (236), Tripathi (221) and Quinton de Kock (211) have been the best T20 batters in the city.

Highest wicket-takers in T20s played at this venue are Trivedi (36), Watson (24), Cooper (23), Warne (20) and James Faulkner (19). With neither of these players part of the current squads, players such as Piyush Chawla (16), Archer (12), Amit Mishra (11), Ashwin (11), Unadkat (10) and Karn Sharma (9) have done well in IPL matches here.

Highest T20 Innings Totals at SMS Stadium (updated)

Score	Overs	Team	Opposition	Year
242/4	20	Otago	Perth Scorchers	2013
217/6	20	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Rajasthan Royals	2023
214/2	20	Rajasthan Royals	Sunrisers Hyderabad	2023
202/5	20	Rajasthan Royals	Chennai Super Kings	2023
197/1	20	Rajasthan Royals	Royal Challengers Bangalore	2008

Been hosting matches since 2007, it is noteworthy that there have been only four instances of a team touching the 200-run mark in the shortest format at this venue.

The aforementioned second-highest innings total is also the highest successful T20 run-chase at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium. The same had happened as latest as the last matches played here between Sunrisers Hyderabad and RR. The dramatic finish comprising Glenn Phillips‘ three consecutive sixes, Sandeep Sharma‘s no-ball and Abdul Samad‘s last-ball six will be remembered for a long time.