Top 5 opening pairs in IPL history

4. Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir

Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag knew each other’s games inside out

The duo of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir were one of the most consistent opening pairs in world cricket during their time together. Apart from forming a successful partnership for India across all three formats, they also enjoyed great success with the Delhi Daredevils from 2008 to 2010.

They had a great understanding of each other’s strengths and complemented each other brilliantly. While Sehwag would go after the bowling right from the word go, Gambhir would take his time to get his eye in before expanding his range of strokes. In the 3 IPL seasons together, they aggregated 732 with four half-century stands and one century stand of 122.