Best Opening Pairs in IPL

I have listed the best Opening Pairs and Partnerships in Indian Premier League History. 

Most Aggregate Runs by Opening Partners 

Innings	Runs	Batsman1	Batsman2	For	Avg	50s	100s	HS
28	1105	Mike Hussey	Murali Vijay	CSK	40.92	8	2	159
19	705	Chris Gayle	Tillakaratne Dilshan	RCB	47.47	6	2	167
24	842	Adam Gilchrist	Herschelle Gibbs	DC	35.08	6	1	101
24	732	Virender Sehwag	Gautam Gambhir	DD	30.5	4	1	122
29	728	Virender Sehwag	David Warner	DD	25.6	1	1	146
20	718	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sachin Tendulkar	MI	35.9	4	1	127
19	705	Rahul Dravid	Ajinkya Rahane	RR	44.06	7	0	99
10	533	Brendon McCullum	Gautam Gambhir	KKR	53.33	4	1	113
17	516	Adam Gilchrist	Paul Valthaty	KXIP	30.35	2	1	136
15	496	Matthew Hayden	Parthiv Patel	CSK	33.06	4	1	106

Only pair to add 1000+ runs opening in IPL

Top Run Scorers in IPL History

Here is the list of Top Run Getters in Each Season in IPL History 

2008 

Runs	Batsman	Innings	Average	50s	100s	Highest
616	Shaun Marsh (KXIP)	11	68.44	5	1	115
534	Gautam Gambhir (DD)	14	41.07	5	0	86
514	Sanath Jayasuriya (MI)	14	42.83	2	1	114*
472	Shane Watson (RR)	15	47.20	4	0	76*
441	Graeme Smith (RR)	11	49.00	3	0	91

2009

Runs	Batsman	Innings	Average	50s	100s	Highest
572	Matthew Hayden (CSK)	12	52.00	5	0	89
495	Adam Gilchrist (DC)	16	30.93	3	0	85
465	AB de Villiers (DD)	13	51.66	3	1	105*
434	Suresh Raina (CSK)	14	31.00	2	0	98
418	Tillakaratne Dilshan (DD)	14	41.80	4	0	67*

2010 

Runs	Batsman	Innings	Average	50s	100s	Highest
618	Sachin Tendulkar (MI)	15	47.53	5	0	89*
572	Jacques Kallis (RCB)	16	47.66	6	0	89*
520	Suresh Raina (CSK)	16	47.27	4	0	83*
493	Sourav Ganguly (KKR)	14	37.92	4	0	88
458	Murali Vijay (CSK)	15	35.23	2	1	127

2011

Runs	Batsman	Innings	Average	50s	100s	Highest
608	Chris Gayle (RCB)	12	67.55	3	2	107
557	Virat Kohli (RCB)	16	46.41	4	0	71
553	Sachin Tendulkar (MI)	16	42.53	2	1	100*
504	Shaun Marsh (KXIP)	13	42.00	4	0	95
492	Mike Hussey (CSK)	14	41.00	4	0	83*

               

2012

Runs	Batsman	Innings	Average	50s	100s	Highest
733	Chris Gayle (RCB)	14	61.08	7	1	128*
590	Gautam Gambhir (KKR)	17	36.87	6	0	93
569	Shikhar Dhawan (DC)	15	40.64	5	0	84
560	Ajinkya Rahane (RR)	16	40.00	3	1	103*
495	Virender Sehwag (DD)	16	33.00	5	0	87*