IPL 2020/21 · Season leaderboard
Highest opening partnerships
Highest opening partnerships, IPL 2020/21: KL Rahul & MA Agarwal — 183 Runs.
Largest 1st-wicket opening partnerships in IPL history (18 seasons, 2007/08–2025). Opening stand size is one of the strongest predictors of a team winning in T20 cricket.
| # | Player | Runs | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KL Rahul & MA AgarwalPBKS | 183 | 99 balls |
| 2 | F du Plessis & SR WatsonCSK | 181 | 106 balls |
| 3 | DA Warner & JM BairstowSRH | 160 | 91 balls |
| 4 | DA Warner & WP SahaSRH | 151 | 103 balls |
| 5 | Ishan Kishan & Q de KockMI | 116 | 74 balls |
| 6 | KL Rahul & MA AgarwalPBKS | 115 | 86 balls |
| 7 | DA Warner & WP SahaSRH | 107 | 58 balls |
| 8 | Q de Kock & RG SharmaMI | 94 | 63 balls |
| 9 | PP Shaw & S DhawanDC | 94 | 64 balls |
| 10 | AJ Finch & D PadikkalRCB | 90 | 66 balls |
| 11 | MP Stoinis & S DhawanDC | 86 | 50 balls |
| 12 | F du Plessis & RD GaikwadCSK | 82 | 59 balls |
| 13 | AJ Finch & D PadikkalRCB | 81 | 54 balls |
| 14 | KL Rahul & MA AgarwalPBKS | 78 | 48 balls |
| 15 | DA Warner & JM BairstowSRH | 77 | 57 balls |
| 16 | D Padikkal & JR PhilippeRCB | 71 | 47 balls |
| 17 | PP Shaw & S DhawanDC | 68 | 40 balls |
| 18 | Ishan Kishan & Q de KockMI | 68 | 62 balls |
| 19 | AJ Finch & D PadikkalRCB | 67 | 46 balls |
| 20 | KL Rahul & MA AgarwalPBKS | 61 | 49 balls |
| 21 | BA Stokes & RV UthappaRR | 60 | 33 balls |
| 22 | JM Bairstow & KS WilliamsonSRH | 58 | 37 balls |
| 23 | KL Rahul & MA AgarwalPBKS | 57 | 42 balls |
| 24 | M Vijay & SR WatsonCSK | 56 | 40 balls |
| 25 | DA Warner & JM BairstowSRH | 56 | 38 balls |
All IPL 2020/21 leaderboards: /season/ipl-2020-21 · Across all seasons: all-time highest opening partnerships.
Provenance. Derived from the IPL historical SETU snapshot (Cricsheet ball-by-ball, IPL 2020/21), cricsheet.org under CC BY 3.0. Sample-size floors enforced.