CSK vs RR Head to Head Record and IPL Stats

How Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals Swung by Season

RR won all three games in 2008, the first season. After that Chennai took charge. Chennai took both fixtures in five separate seasons (2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2019), and the rest up to 2019 were shared, so CSK went into the 2020s with a clear lead. The seasons table then jumps from 2015 to 2018, with no meetings in between.

Since then the pendulum has swung back. Rajasthan claimed clean sweeps in 2020, 2023 and 2025, and the results table shows them winning eight of the last 10. That run is what pulled the series level. CSK’s only wins in that stretch came at the Wankhede on 19 Apr 2021, by 45 runs, and at Chennai on 12 May 2024.

Home ground has mattered. CSK have taken seven of nine at the MA Chidambaram Stadium. At the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, RR lead four to three across seven games.

Top Run Scorers and Wicket Takers in CSK vs RR Matches

Nobody has scored more in this fixture than SK Raina of CSK, whose 630 came from 23 innings with a best of 98. MS Dhoni is next on 585, averaging 39.00. Top of the Rajasthan names is SR Watson, 480 runs, striking at 153.35. Watson also turned out for Chennai in it: his 106 from 57 deliveries on 20 Apr 2018 came in CSK colours and set up their biggest win, by 64 runs at Pune.

RA Jadeja of CSK tops the bowling, 21 wickets at 22.71 apiece, best 4/11, and three player of the match awards. The single best spell, though, belongs to Sohail Tanvir of RR: 6/14 in Jaipur, back on 4 May 2008, when Chennai were all out for 109, still their lowest total in the rivalry. Tanvir took 10 wickets in just three games against CSK at an average of 8.70.

Full franchise numbers are on the CSK IPL records page and Rajasthan Royals IPL records pages.

Big Totals, Chasing and What the Scores Say

The highest scoring match came on 3 Apr 2010 in Chennai. M Vijay struck 127 from 56 balls, 11 of them sent for six, CSK made 246/5, and RR replied with 223/5. Both totals are still the two highest in the fixture. Third on the list is RR’s 216/7 in Sharjah from 22 Sep 2020.

Chasing has the edge here: 18 wins for the side batting second, 14 for the side setting the total. First innings here average 170, and totals around that mark have more often been hunted down than defended. For more Chennai rivalries, try MI vs CSK; for Rajasthan, see RR vs DC.