IPL venues: pitch stats & records for every ground

Pitch numbers for 15 IPL grounds, including every venue used in 2026, from each ground's first IPL match to the 2026 final. Since the Impact Player rule arrived in 2023, the average first-innings score across the league has risen to 190.3, against 169.6 over all seasons.

Venue	City	Home team	IPL matches	2026	Avg 1st inns (2023-26)	Chasing wins
Wankhede Stadium	Mumbai	MI	132	7	196.7	57%
Eden Gardens	Kolkata	KKR	107	7	197.3	46%
M Chinnaswamy Stadium	Bengaluru	RCB	104	5	194.5	54%
Arun Jaitley Stadium	Delhi	DC	104	7	193.4	50%
MA Chidambaram Stadium (Chepauk)	Chennai	CSK	98	7	172.7	61%
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium	Hyderabad	SRH	90	7	197.1	48%
Sawai Mansingh Stadium	Jaipur	RR	68	4	194.5	57%
IS Bindra Stadium	Mohali	–	61	0	199.5	40%
Narendra Modi Stadium	Ahmedabad	GT	53	8	191.6	47%
Ekana Cricket Stadium	Lucknow	LSG	29	7	175.4	57%
HPCA Stadium	Dharamsala	PBKS (2nd)	19	4	214.4	33%
ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium	Visakhapatnam	–	17	0	–	53%
Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium	Mullanpur (New Chandigarh)	PBKS	17	6	186.6	53%
Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Stadium	Raipur	RCB (2nd)	8	2	–	75%
Barsapara Cricket Stadium	Guwahati	RR (2nd)	8	3	171.6	50%

Average first-innings score since 2023

HPCA Stadium214

Eden Gardens197

Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium197

Wankhede Stadium197

M Chinnaswamy Stadium194

Sawai Mansingh Stadium194

Arun Jaitley Stadium193

Narendra Modi Stadium192

Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium187

Ekana Cricket Stadium175

MA Chidambaram Stadium (Chepauk)173

League-wide picture

Across all 1243 IPL matches, chasing teams won 666 of 1234 decided games (54%). Since 2023 the split is 151 chasing wins to 135 batting-first wins. In 2026, captains who won the toss chose to field 61 times out of 74.