Stats: Highest Partnership in IPL for each wicket

IPL has begun and we have already seen quite the drama so far. Be it a close finish, big hitting, good bowling, terrific catches, drop catches, ducks, century (by Brendon McCullum on 11th April) so far. One thing we are yet to see in the ongoing season of IPL is a brilliant partnership, let alone a match winning partnership.

In the previous 7 seasons of IPL runs have flowed, flowed heavily and the list below is a small example of that.

In today’s stat we will take a look at a list of highest partnership for every wicket in Indian Premier League:

Wkt	Runs	Partners	Team	Opp	Ground	Match Date
1st	167	C Gayle, TM Dilshan	RCB	PWI	Bangalore	23 Apr 2013
2nd	206	A Gilchrist, S Marsh	KXIP	RCB	Dharamsala	17 May 2011
3rd	157	C White, K Sangakkara	DC	PWI	Cuttack	1 May 2012
4th	132	de Villiers, Yuvraj Singh	RCB	RR	Bangalore	11 May 2014
5th	130*	O Shah, A Mathews	KKR	DC	Mumbai	12 Mar 2010
5th	130*	D Miller, R Sathish	KXIP	RCB	Mohali	6 May 2013
6th	122	A Rayudu, K Pollard	MI	RCB	Bangalore	14 May 2012
7th	65	K Pollard, Harbhajan Singh	MI	CSK	Chennai	6 Apr 2013
8th	69	B Hodge, J Faulkner	RR	MI	Ahmedabad	19 May 2014
9th	41	Dhoni, R Ashwin	CSK	MI	Kolkata	26 May 2013
10th	29*	S Trivedi, M Patel	RR	DD	Bloemfontein	17 May 2009

*Stats updated till 10 April, 2015

Well, what you are seeing are not the partnership record for ODI matches but the stat for highest partnerships for every wicket in IPL. Though the numbers seem to be too good to be true, they are what they are.

For the 1^st wicket partnership, the pair of Gayle and Dilshan scored 167 runs togethers against Pune Warriors Team. This was same match when Gayle made the record for highest ever individual score ever in a T20 game. Team score: 263 runs.

The highest ever partnership in IPL and the highest partnership for 2^nd wicket is by Adam Gilchrist and Shaun Marsh. These two Australia batsmen scored 206 together against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 4^th season of IPL. Team score: 232 runs.

For the third wicket the pair of Cameron White and Kumar Sangakkara together scored 157 runs against the Pune Warriors team in 2012. Team Score: 186 runs.

Memorable partnership of de Villiers and Yuvraj Singh for RCB against Royals in the previous season is the highest ever for 4^th wicket in IPL. They scored132 runs together, which still wasn’t good enough to contain the Royals as RCB lost the match. Team score: 190 runs.

For the 5^th wicket on two occasions batsmen have score 130* runs. First time for KKR by Owais Shah and Angelo Matthew against DC and 2^nd time in 2013 by David Miller and R Sathish for KXIP against RCB. Team score: KKR: 161 runs ; KXIP: 194 runs.