Top 10 highest match aggregates in Twenty20

1. Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals (Chennai – April 2010, IPL Season 3) – 469 runs

The yellow brigade dished out a clinical performance with the bat and held their nerve in crucial moments to emerge winners in a run-fest against the Rajasthan Royals at the Chepauk Stadium in the third season of the IPL.

Skipper MS Dhoni chose to bat first on a belter of a track – a fact that was justified by a blazing innings from opener Murali Vijay and a power-packed cameo from Albie Morkel. The duo added a mammoth 152 runs for the third wicket, smashing the bowlers to all parts of the ground. Even the legendary Shane Warne, captaining the Royals, had no answer to Vijay’s brilliance as the Tamil Nadu batsman stroked his way to a magnificent 127, with eight fours and 11 sixes.

At the other end, the left-handed Morkel simply went ballistic and hammered boundaries left and right, sparing no one who had the audacity to bowl to him and his partner. The South African finished with a commanding 62, scored from just 34 balls, hitting three fours and five towering sixes, as the Super Kings put up 246/5 on the board.

Rajasthan gave it their all, with Lumb and Naman Ojha adding 69 for the first wicket before Morkel sent the English opener back to the pavilion. After Yusuf Pathan fell for 4, Ojha stepped on the gas as he tonked fours and sixes at will, with Shane Watson also blasting away at the other end. They made the Super Kings bleed 97 runs off just seven overs.

But Dhoni pulled off a surprise tactic by unleashing IPL debutant Doug Bollinger on the marauding duo in the 16th over. The left-arm seamer cleaned up Watson with his first ball, and then removed Abhishek Jhunjhunwala for 7 to effectively derail the Rajasthan innings to end with figures of 2/15 in his four overs.

Rajasthan managed to make 223, eventually falling short by 23 runs with Ojha stranded on 94.