Live Cricket Scoreboard: Get Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders 1st match , cricket scorecard, Indian Premier League 2007/08 dated April 18, 2008. Watch Brendon McCullum's brilliant century in IPL 's opening match IPL First Match History: The Indian Premier League is one of the most-watched cricket league games in the world. BCCI hosted the first edition of the IPL in 2008 and continued to host the tournament without skipping a year. The first IPL match was played between RCB and KKR in 2008, with McCullum scoring the first century and taking the first Player of the Match award. Find out the details of the first ball, first wicket, first six, first boundary and more from the historic encounter.