Mumbai, May 4 -- The opening pair of Ryan Rickelton and Rohit Sharma joined history books, becoming the first-ever pair to register three century partnerships for the Mumbai Indians (MI) in the Indian Premier League (IPL history.

Rickelton and Rohit established themselves as one of MI's best opening pairs during the match against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG). Set a gigantic 229 runs to chase, a 143-run stand between Rohit (84 in 44 balls, with six fours and seven sixes) and Rickelton (83 in 32 balls, with six fours and eight sixes) made an absolute meal out of LSG's strong pace trio of Mohammed Shami, Mohsin Khan and Prince Yadav, helping MI chase down the target in 18.4 overs.

The pairs with two century partnerships for MI in IPL are: Ro...