Top 5 Highest Individual Scores In IPL History: The Indian Premier League has been providing unforgettable experiences for its fans since 2008. The league features players who hit for power.
The number of records broken has also added to the many great individual performances by batsmen over the course of T20 cricket, making this league historically the finest in terms of an individual’s innings recorded in history.
Top 5 Highest Individual Scores in IPL
5. AB de Villiers – 133* Runs
Team: Royal Challengers Bangalore
Opponent: Mumbai Indians
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AB de Villiers is rated as one of the best players in T20 cricket. He has the fifth-best score in IPL history. While playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore, he scored 133 not out against the Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium.
RCB was able to win comfortably against MI due to AB de Villiers’ aggressive style of hitting and innovative strokes, which tore the MI bowling attack apart. Once again, the significance of AB de Villiers to the Royal Challengers Bangalore was emphasised in this innings.
4. Quinton de Kock – 140 Runs
Lucknow Super Giants
Opponent: Kolkata Knight Riders
Season: IPL 2022
During IPL 2022, Quinton De Kock showed that he is one of the best players in world cricket by dominating the Kolkata Knight Riders with a score of 140 runs off just 70 balls when playing for the Lucknow Super Giants.
That powerful knock showed his class and consistency at the top of the order, as he played a key role in Lucknow’s dominant display in the match.
3. Abhishek Sharma – 141 Runs
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Team: Sunrisers Hyderabad
Opponent: Punjab Kings
Season: IPL 2025
Now young Indian talent Abhishek Sharma has sent fans into tangles with an innings in IPL 2025. Batting for Sunrisers Hyderabad, he blasted 141 runs in 55 balls with 10 sixes and 14 fours. Eventually, SRH won the match by 8 wickets, and this blistering knock now is the third highest individual score in the history of the IPL.
2. Brendon McCullum – 158 Runs
Team: Kolkata Knight Riders
vs. Royal Challengers Bangalore (Opponent)
Season: IPL 2008
One of the most iconic moments of the IPL came out in the very first match of the tournament. Opening for the Kolkata Knight Riders in 2008, Brendon McCullum left the cricketing world dumbfounded with his blistering 158-run knock off 73 balls against the Royal Challengers Bangalore.
This historic inning formed the first century in IPL history and thus set the trend for the league’s future as a festival of high-scoring cricket.
1. Chris Gayle – 175* Runs
Team: Royal Challengers Bangalore
Opponent: Pune Warriors India
Season: IPL 2013 At the
Highest Individual Scores in IPL, is by one and only Chris Gayle.
Playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2013, Gayle smashed an unbeaten 175 runs off just 66 balls. His knock had 13 fours and incredible 17 sixes and a monstrous strike rate. This remains the highest individual score in the history of IPL and arguably among the greatest T20 innings played by anyone to this date.
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