Continuity in the IPL is often defined by the ability of two batsmen to rotate the strike and hit boundaries together, turning individual starts into match-defining platforms.
All-time list: Most 50+ partnerships in IPL
| partners | Turn | 50+ | 100 | 50 | highest partnership | total runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AB de Villiers, Virat Kohli | 76 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 229 | 3123 |
| Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli | 59 | 21 | 9 | 12 | 204* | 2787 |
| Shikhar Dhawan, David Warner | 50 | 20 | 6 | 14 | 139 | 2357 |
| Ishan Kishan, Rohit Sharma | 54 | 18 | 1 | 17 | 101 | 1868 |
| Sai Sudarshan, Shubman Gill | 37 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 210 | 2216 |
| Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul | 33 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 183 | 1731 |
| Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli | 41 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 172 | 2032 |
| Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa | 48 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 158 | 1906 |
| Chris Gayle, KL Rahul | 37 | 15 | 4 | 11 | 120 | 1633 |
| Michael Hussey, Murali Vijay | 35 | 13 | 2 | 11 | 159 | 1367 |
| Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal | 34 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 181* | 1602 |
| Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav | 28 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 143* | 1158 |
Key Insights: The league’s most dominant batting pairs
AB de Villiers-Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle-Virat Kohli have made the most half-century partnerships in the IPL. Both pairs made 21-21 stands.
ABD and Kohli also have the highest number of century partnerships in the IPL, with 10 partnerships between them.
The RCB pair have also scored the highest partnership runs in the league, with 3123 runs between them in 76 innings.
Both of them made the record of the biggest partnership in an IPL innings, when they scored 229 runs for the second wicket. RCB against Gujarat Lions in 2016.
ABD-Kohli also jointly hold the record of scoring most double centuries in IPL along with Sai Sudarshan and Shubman Gill.
Gayle-Kohli and Sudarshan-Gill are the two pairs to score 10 or more fifty-plus runs in domestic IPL matches.
Meanwhile, ABD and Kohli have made the most fifty-plus partnerships in IPL games, with 12 stands between them.
Faf du Plessis and Kohli recorded eight partnerships of 50 or more runs for RCB in the 2023 season, the most by any pair in the IPL edition.
Gayle-Kohli and Ishan Kishan-Rohit Sharma have made three or more fifty-run partnerships against four opponents each in the IPL.
Gautam Gambhir-Robin Uthappa and Gayle-Kohli have made fifty-plus partnerships nine times in successful chases, which is the joint-highest by any pair in the IPL.
Overall, Mayank Agarwal and KL Rahul have the most fifty-plus partnerships in run chases, with 11 partnerships between them.
MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja are the only pair to have more than 10 partnerships of 50 or more runs for the fourth or lower wicket in the IPL.
Of the 20 partnerships of over fifty between Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner, 18 were for the first wicket, the highest partnership by an opening pair in the IPL.
