Top 5 highest team totals in IPL History
Ever since its inception, the IPL has seen eighty-two 200+ scores recorded by teams. The first team to do so was the Kolkata Knight Riders in the very first IPL match against Royal Challengers Bangalore on 18th April 2008.
Chennai Super Kings holds the record for scoring 200 plus runs the most number of times. They have posted 200 plus scores 16 times closely followed by RCB who have achieved this feat 15 times.
The 2018 IPL saw the most number of 200 plus runs scored in an innings - 15, whereas the 2009 edition saw the least with only one 200 plus score posted by a team in the entire tournament.
On this note let us take a look at the top 5 highest team totals in IPL history.
#5. 240/5 by Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab in 2008
The second match of the inaugural edition of the IPL saw CSK facing KXIP. CSK had won the toss and had elected to bat first. By the 8th over Chennai had lost 3 wickets including that of Matthew Hayden & MS Dhoni and were at 62/3. But one man stood like a rock - Michael Hussey. His 64 runs partnership with Suresh Raina, 41 runs partnership with Jacob Oram and 73 runs partnership with S. Badrinath helped CSK reach a total of 240/5 for their allotted 20 overs. Hussey ended the innings unbeaten with 116 runs that included 9 sixes and 8 fours.
In reply, KXIP began with a 56 runs partnership between James Hopes and Karan Goel followed by a 55 runs partnership between Hopes and Kumar Sangakkara. But they could never really keep up with the asking rate and ended their innings at 207/4 at the end of 20 overs.
Michael Hussey for his century was named as the Player of the Match. CSK's 240/5 remained the highest team total in the 2008 IPL.