Highest Opening Partnership in IPL

Partners	Runs	Wicket	Team	Opposition	Venue	Match Date
Quinton de Kock & KL Rahul	210*	1st	LSG	v KKR	Mumbai	18 May 2022
Johnny Bairstow & David Warner	185	1st	Sunrisers	v RCB	Hyderabad (Deccan)	31 Mar 2019
Gautam Gambhir & Chris Lynn	184*	1st	KKR	v Guj Lions	Rajkot	7 Apr 2017
KL Rahul & Mayank Agarwal	183	1st	Kings XI	v Royals	Sharjah	27 Sep 2020
Ruturaj Gaikwad and Devon Conway	182	1st	CSK	v SRH	Pune	1 May 2022
Shane Watson & Faf du Plessis	181*	1st	Super Kings	v Kings XI	Dubai (DSC)	4 Oct 2020
Virat Kohli & Devdutt Padikkal	181*	1st	RCB	v Royals	Mumbai	22 Apr 2021
Virat Kohli & Faf du Plessis	172	1st	RCB	v Warriors	Bengaluru	23 Apr 2013
Chris Gayle & TM Dilshan	167	1st	RCB	v SunRisers	Hyderabad	18 May 2023
Sachin Tendulkar & Dwayne Smith	163*	1st	Mum Indians	v Royals	Jaipur	20 May 2012

Opening partnerships plays a substantial role in setting the platform for a batting-unit to build a really big score on it.

And, over the course of the last 15 seasons of the Indian Premier League (IPL), we have witnessed several decorated opening pair break and set new records with their bat.

In IPL 2022, LSG's opening pair of Quinton de Kock and KL Rahul scripted history as they became the first set of openers to amass a 200+ run stand. De Kock, who smashed an unbeaten 140 off 70 deliveries, added unbeaten 210 runs against the Kolkata Knight Riders with KL.

In the process, the duo broke the record of highest opening stand in the league's history. The record was previously held by former SunRisers Hyderabad opening pair of David Warner and Jonny Bairstow.

Warner and Bairstow hammered 185 runs for the first wicket against the Royal Challengers Bangalore on SRH's home turf during the 2019 season.

Prior to Warner and Bairstow, the record for the highest opening stand was held by KKR's Chris Lynn and Gautam Gambhir.

Lynn and Gambhir accumulated 184 unbeaten runs against the Gujarat Lions during the 2017 edition.

Between 2020-22, as many as four separate opening pairs came close to overhauling the records set by Warner-Bairstow & Lynn-Gambhir, but eventually fell short.

In 2020, KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal hammered 183 runs while opening for PBKS against the Rajasthan Royals, but they still ended on a losing note thanks to a once-in-a-lifetime finish from Rahul Tewatia.

During the same season, CSK's Shane Watson and Faf du Plessis added 181 unbeaten runs to script a thumping 10-wicket win over Punjab; a feat, Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal repeated against the Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2021.

A year later, yet another CSK pair added a 180+ stand (182) for the 1st wicket; this time by Ruturaj Gaikwad and Devon Conway against SRH in Pune. This remains the 5th highest opening stand in IPL history till.