Highest and lowest scoring T20 grounds

48 grounds ranked by what a first innings actually averages there, measured from ball-by-ball records rather than described from memory.

179Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium

108Galle International Stadium

71 runsSpread between them

That is a 71-run gap between the highest and lowest scoring grounds in this set — more than a whole powerplay. It is why “a good total” is a question with no general answer, and why reading a chase against a single national par score gets it wrong at both ends.

Why first innings, and not a chase-success ranking

The obvious ranking to publish would be “hardest grounds to chase at”. We computed it and threw it away. Every ground in the set appears to punish chasing, which is not a fact about pitches: a successful chase stops the moment the target is passed, so the only chases that reach the death overs are the ones already going badly. Any ranking built on that measures the format, not the ground.

A first innings plays its full twenty overs. Its average is clean, comparable across grounds, and is the number actually worth knowing before a match.

All 48 grounds

#	Ground	Matches	1st inns	2nd inns	Runs/over
1	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium	52	179	157	8.42
2	PCA IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali	10	176	172	8.69
3	Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow	24	173	162	8.38
4	National Stadium, Karachi	56	172	157	8.22
5	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru	111	170	153	8.08
6	Multan Cricket Stadium	19	169	153	8.05
7	Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi	16	169	155	8.09
8	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	80	168	156	8.10
9	Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad	86	167	156	8.08
10	Pallekele International Stadium	36	167	147	7.84
11	Adelaide Oval	100	166	148	7.84
12	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	106	164	149	7.83
13	The Gabba, Brisbane	42	164	150	7.85
14	Bellerive Oval, Hobart	88	164	149	7.83
15	SuperSport Park, Centurion	24	164	148	7.82
16	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	28	164	152	7.90
17	Manuka Oval, Canberra	32	163	134	7.43
18	The Rose Bowl, Southampton	10	160	143	7.58
19	Perth Stadium	55	160	145	7.61
20	Warner Park, St Kitts	42	159	142	7.53
21	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	84	159	145	7.60
22	Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur	47	158	146	7.59
23	Lord's, London	10	158	136	7.36
24	Docklands Stadium, Melbourne	44	157	144	7.51
25	Sydney Cricket Ground	93	157	138	7.36
26	Sydney Showground Stadium	45	154	125	7.00
27	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	12	154	134	7.19
28	Melbourne Cricket Ground	100	153	140	7.34
29	Carrara Oval, Gold Coast	24	153	140	7.33
30	Daren Sammy Stadium, St Lucia	71	153	142	7.37
31	The Oval, London	17	152	135	7.18
32	Old Trafford, Manchester	11	151	127	6.98
33	St George's Park, Gqeberha	10	151	127	6.95
34	Queen's Park Oval, Trinidad	51	150	139	7.22
35	Kensington Oval, Barbados	44	150	133	7.07
36	Newlands, Cape Town	31	150	137	7.17
37	Kingsmead, Durban	33	149	135	7.09
38	Dubai International Cricket Stadium	218	148	134	7.06
39	Sharjah Cricket Stadium	117	148	136	7.09
40	Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi	154	146	133	6.97
41	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	62	146	131	6.94
42	Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram	16	145	124	6.73
43	Providence Stadium, Guyana	45	142	118	6.51
44	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	69	141	123	6.61
45	Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium	26	139	116	6.38
46	Brian Lara Stadium, Tarouba	33	138	133	6.78
47	Sylhet International Cricket Stadium	27	131	100	5.78
48	Galle International Stadium	12	108	94	5.04

Which grounds accelerate, and which stay flat

A ground’s average hides its shape. Some climb steeply from the powerplay to the death; others score at nearly the same rate throughout, which changes what a required rate means at every stage. Top five and bottom five, first innings:

Ground	Powerplay	Death	Change
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	6.97	10.65	+3.68
Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi	7.53	11.14	+3.61
Providence Stadium, Guyana	6.12	9.56	+3.44
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru	6.89	10.29	+3.40
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad	6.54	9.84	+3.30
Sylhet International Cricket Stadium	6.40	7.12	+0.72
The Oval, London	7.72	8.04	+0.32
Carrara Oval, Gold Coast	7.57	7.90	+0.32
Galle International Stadium	5.19	5.50	+0.31
Old Trafford, Manchester	7.59	7.48	-0.11

Where these come from

Ball-by-ball records for every T20 played at each ground in the dataset. The same records feed the live win probability on this site, measured at 81.5% across 19,340 predictions on 2,546 matches it had never seen during training — method and calibration table on the accuracy page. No ball-tracking is used; these are delivery outcomes only.