5 highest individual scores in IPL history

#2 Brendon McCullum (158* vs RCB, 2008)

Brendon McCullum set the IPL stage on fire in the tournament's first ever game

Before the first season of the IPL many people had varying thoughts regarding IPL’s future and what the tournament will bring forth. Brendon McCullum answered all those questions with a bang and put all the contemplations to rest.

Very few batsman in world cricket can score as quickly as McCullum does at the top. And the New Zealand opener left everyone bewildered in the very first encounter at the inaugural season of the IPL when he came out all guns blazing against RCB at the Chinnaswamy as he recorded the best innings score by an individual in T20 cricket at that point in time.

Opening the innings for the Kolkata Knight Riders, McCullum wasted no time and got the ball rolling from the outset. He played with unmatched confidence on a surface, where his imminent peers struggled to get going. McCullum smashed 10 fours and 13 sixes for his unbeaten 158 off 78 deliveries as he guided KKR to a gigantic total of 222.

There couldn’t be any better ribbon-cutting for the IPL as KKR won the game by 140 runs.