Scoring a century in T20 cricket is hard. You have at most 60 balls. Every boundary matters. Every dot ball is wasted. The batsmen who've scored the highest IPL innings combined aggression with remarkable control.
Chris Gayle's 175* for RCB against Pune Warriors remains the greatest IPL innings ever. 175 off 66 balls, with 17 sixes. Seventeen. The bowlers were mere spectators. It's an innings that may never be surpassed in the IPL.
Other massive scores include Brendon McCullum's 158* in the very first IPL match (2008), which announced to the world that T20 cricket was here to stay.
Among Indians, Kohli's 113 off 50 balls and KL Rahul's 132* off 69 balls stand out. These weren't just slog-fests — they were innings of calculated destruction, mixing proper cricket shots with outrageous power.
Will someone ever score 200 in an IPL innings? It seems impossible, but people said the same about 150 before Gayle. With modern bats, shorter boundaries, and the depth of batting talent, 200 is improbable but not impossible. It would require everything going right for an entire innings.
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