Virat and ABD partnership in IPL: Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers highest partnerships in IPL full list

Virat and ABD partnership in IPL: The two legendary batters were part of many magnificent Indian Premier League partnerships.

Chennai Super Kings opening batters Ruturaj Gaikwad and Devon Conway’s 182-run opening partnership against Sunrisers Hyderabad in an Indian Premier League 2022 match had reminded fans of legendary Royal Challengers Bangalore pair Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers.

A 107-ball stand saw Gaikwad and Conway registering the highest IPL 2022 partnership, fourth-highest opening partnership in the history of the IPL and the highest partnership between two batters playing for CSK.

As far as the third criteria is concerned, Gaikwad and Conway surpassed a match-winning unbeaten 181-run opening partnership between Shane Watson and Faf du Plessis (vs Kings XI Punjab in Dubai two years ago).

In what was the ninth-highest partnership in the history of the IPL, Gaikwad and Conway had the time to further step up in the list of highest IPL partnerships.

Virat and ABD partnership in IPL history

Talking about Kohli and de Villiers, the dangerous pair represented Royal Challengers for 11 years in a row between 2011-2021. In the process, Kohli and de Villiers powered themselves to score maximum runs for a batting pair in the IPL. The ongoing 15th season of the IPL is the first one after IPL 2010 that Kohli and de Villiers aren’t playing for RCB in the IPL.

Both the right-handed batters were part of a total of 10 100+ partnerships in the IPL. Kohli and de Villiers, who have the best two IPL partnerships to their name, had scored two out of four 200+ IPL partnerships back in the day.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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