A score of 300+ can be made in IPL soon. The trend of big scores has increased in the last two years due to the ‘Impact Player’ rule, aggressive batting and batting-friendly pitches. The current record is SRH’s 287 runs, which is expected to be broken.
Bengaluru: Will RCB win the trophy again? Who will reach the play-offs? Who will score the most runs? Let us keep these well-worn questions aside before the 2026 IPL and ask a new question: Will any team cross the 300-run mark for the first time this time?
If we look at the IPL matches of the last two years and the aggressive play of the teams, it clearly seems that scoring 300+ in the 19th season is no longer impossible. This was expected in the last season also, but it did not happen. Now everyone’s eyes are on this season and there are many solid reasons behind it.
300 mark is just a short distance away
Before the 2024 IPL, the highest score of the tournament was held by RCB, which scored 263/6 against Pune Warriors in 2013. But now if we look at the list of top-10 highest scores, 9 of them have been made in 2024 and 2025 only. Meaning, in the last two years there has been such a rain of runs that all the records were washed away. At present, the highest score in IPL is 287 runs, which was made by Sunrisers Hyderabad by losing 3 wickets against RCB in Bengaluru in 2024. Last year i.e. in 2025 also, Sunrisers had scored 286 runs for 6 wickets against Rajasthan. Looking at these figures it seems that this time a score of 300+ can be made.
Impact of the ‘Impact Player’ rule
The biggest reason for big scores in IPL in the last 3 years is the rule of ‘Impact Player’. This player, who comes into the team as the 12th player, changes the course of the match, resulting in big scores. From 2008 to 2022, when this rule was not there, and after its implementation in 2023, there has been a huge difference in the run-rate of the teams. Apart from this, restrictions on fielding, small boundaries and pitches helpful to the batsmen are also helping in making big scores.
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Why expect 300+?
1. Increasing trend of high-score
T20, especially IPL, now means high-scoring matches. Low scoring matches are rarely seen now. Teams now enter the field with the mentality of scoring big scores.
2. Explosive style of batsmen
For today’s batsmen, batting indiscriminately and hitting sixes is a form of fun. Instead of a slow start, he is now emphasizing on fast batting from the beginning and scoring most of the runs from the boundary.
3. Batting-friendly pitches
Now in any T20 tournament, most of the pitches are made keeping the batsmen in mind. Even in IPL, BCCI is preparing only batting-friendly pitches instead of bowling or balanced pitches.
4. Impact Player Rule
The Impact Player rule plays a big role in making big scores in IPL. Teams are scoring big scores easily by fielding their most explosive batsmen as impact players.
5. Small stadium, small boundaries
Most of the IPL stadiums, like Chinnaswamy in Bengaluru, are quite small and their boundary lines are also close. This, combined with the fielding restrictions, makes scoring runs even easier.
Score of 300+ has been made 5 times in T20
Even though a score of 300+ has not been made in IPL till now, it is nothing new for T20 cricket. So far, teams have scored more than 300 runs 5 times in this format. In the 2024 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Baroda scored 349 runs for 5 wickets against Sikkim. At the same time, in international cricket itself in 2024, Zimbabwe had scored 344 runs for 4 wickets against Gambia.
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Last year, 240+ runs were scored 6 times, 275+ runs were scored 2 times.
300+ runs were expected in the last IPL season itself. Although this did not happen, the teams came very close to it. In 2025, a total of 6 times the score was more than 240, while 2 times the teams even crossed the mark of 275. Sunrisers had scored 286 runs against Rajasthan and 278 runs against KKR.