IPL flashback: Five highest team totals

A look at the top five highest team totals notched up in the Indian Premier League:


Royal Challengers Bangalore: 263/5 vs Pune Warriors (2013)

Royal Challengers Bangalore have never won the Indian Premier League title. But they have notched up the top two highest team totals ever in IPL history. Riding on Chris Gayle's unbeaten 175, RCB smashed the stuffing out of the now-defunct Pune Warriors on April 23, 2013 by scoring a mammoth 263/5 at Bangalore. Gayle's swashbuckling knock was studded with as many as 17 sixes and 13 fours, coming off just 66 deliveries. Gayle hit the fastest century, off just 30 balls, and the highest-ever individual score in a T20 game, surpassing Kolkata Knight Riders' Brendon McCullum, who hit 158 off 73 balls against RCB at the same venue -- Chinnaswamy Stadium. Chasing a T20 world record target of 264, Pune could manage to get to just 133 for nine in the allotted 20 overs, paving the way for Bangalore to post the biggest IPL victory in terms of runs (130).

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Royal Challengers Bangalore: 248/3 vs Gujarat Lions (2016)

Batting first against Gujarat Lions, RCB scored a massive 248/3 courtesy AB de Villiers's 129 not out and an equally attractive 109 by Virat Kohli at the Chinnaswamy Stadium on May 14, 2016. Lions capitulated for a meagre 104 all out in 18.4 overs, crashing to a 144-run defeat. The Kohli-De Villiers combine eclipsed its own partnership record by pummeling the Lions and adding a staggering 229 runs in just 16 overs. Kohli became the first player in the history of the IPL to score two centuries against the same opponents in one edition of the league. De Villiers smashed a scintillating unbeaten 129 off 52 balls with 10 fours and 12 maximums while Kohli, enroute to his third hundred in a single edition of IPL, hit a brilliant 109 off 55 balls, with the help of five fours and eight sixes.

Chennai Super Kings: 246/5 vs Rajasthan Royals (2010)

Murali Vijay tore apart the Rajasthan Royals bowling attack, while scoring 127 off 56 balls to help Chennai Super Kings post 246/5 at the MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai on April 3, 2010. At that time, CSK's score was the highest team total in IPL, bettering their own 240/5 against Kings XI Punjab in 2008. Vijay's 127 was the second highest individual score in IPL after Kolkata Knight Riders' Brendon McCullum's 157 and he became only the third Indian to score an IPL century after Manish Pandey and Yusuf Pathan. The way Vijay hammered the likes of Shane Watson, Shaun Tait and Shane Warne, it seemed he was playing in some local league. He made the Royals' bowlers look pedestrian and Warne simply did not know how to stop Vijay's onslaught.



Kolkata Knight Riders: 245/6 vs Kings XI Punjab (2018)

Kolkata Knight Riders smashed boundaries at will against Kings XI Punjab to post 245/6, the highest score at the Holkar Stadium in Indore and the fourth-highest total in IPL history on May 12, 2018. Sunil Narine laid the foundation with a 36-ball 75 (9x4, 4x6). Giving him company were Chris Lynn (27; 17b, 2x4, 2x6) and Robin Uthappa (24; 17b, 2x4, 1x6). Skipper Dinesh Karthik (50; 23b, 5x4, 3x6) and Andre Russell (30; 14b, 2x4, 3x6) then carried on the momentum with some audacious hitting to enthrall the crowd. Narine dented Punjab's confidence early on while Karthik and Russell demoralized them in the middle and death overs. Quite a few hits went to the third tier and twice the umpires needed to replace the lost balls. Punjab managed to score 214/8 as KKR won by 31 runs.



Chennai Super Kings: 240/5 vs Kings XI Punjab (2008)

This was the second match of the inaugural edition and the first match of the MS Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings. Michael Hussey cracked the fastest century in Twenty20 cricket history at that time to power Chennai to 240/5 against Kings XI Punjab in Mohali on April 19, 2008. It was virtual carnage at the PCA Stadium, as Hussey hit as many as 10 sixes and seven boundaries in his blistering unbeaten 116 off just 54 balls. Hussey's hundred was the second century of the tournament in as many days after Brendon McCullum's 158 in the opening match in Bangalore. Suresh Raina (32), S Badrinath (31) and Matthew Hayden (25) were the other notable scorers for Chennai. Punjab were then restricted to 207/4 as Chennai registered a 33-run victory.