TOP 10 Highest partnership runs by a pair in ODIs
Cricket players when playing as one unit certainly possess the ultimate coordination and understanding between them. This spirit of unity helps them stand as a team to overcome even the difficult of targets. Cricket team does possess such harmony within itself. However there are some players who truly seem to have been made to play together. Not just the friendship but the synchronization among these players when they are batting together helps them get along very well. As we all know the importance of batting partnerships in all formats of cricket. And to make a partnership as one of the highest runs partnership it is a much that both partners have a perfect coordination and understanding.
These players have set some of the highest partnership runs together mounting over 8000. Playing an individual innings in cricket is rather easier than playing together and building a partnership. Often cricketers get accused of playing for self and not for team. However when they play through long partnerships and by getting singles and two as well as scoring boundaries, none can blame them for their batting. Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar are the cricket pair with highest partnership runs in their ODI career. The legendary Indian players always got along very well whenever they came out to bat together. Both former players have scored 8227 runs together in 176 innings.
On the other hand Sri Lankan gentlemen of the game Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene also hold the record of second most runs scored together. However their combined contribution together is rather lower than that of Sachin and Ganguly. Both Lankans scored 5992 runs together in One Day internationals.
TOP 10 Highest partnership runs by a pair in ODIs
| Partners | Span | Inns | Runs | High | Ave | 100 | 50 |
| SC Ganguly, SR Tendulkar (India) | 1992-2007 | 176 | 8227 | 258 | 47.55 | 26 | 29 |
| DPMD Jayawardene, KC Sangakkara (Asia/SL) | 2000-2015 | 151 | 5992 | 179 | 41.61 | 15 | 32 |
| TM Dilshan, KC Sangakkara (SL) | 2000-2015 | 108 | 5475 | 210* | 53.67 | 20 | 19 |
| MS Atapattu, ST Jayasuriya (SL) | 1996-2007 | 144 | 5462 | 237 | 39.29 | 14 | 26 |
| AC Gilchrist, ML Hayden (AUS) | 2000-2008 | 117 | 5409 | 172 | 47.44 | 16 | 29 |
| CG Greenidge, DL Haynes (WI) | 1979-1991 | 103 | 5206 | 192* | 52.58 | 15 | 25 |
| V Sehwag, SR Tendulkar (India) | 2001-2012 | 114 | 4387 | 182 | 39.16 | 13 | 18 |
| R Dravid, SC Ganguly (Asia/India) | 1996-2007 | 88 | 4363 | 318 | 50.14 | 11 | 18 |
| R Dravid, SR Tendulkar (India) | 1996-2009 | 98 | 4117 | 331 | 44.26 | 11 | 14 |
| Inzamam-ul-Haq, Yousuf Youhana (PAK) | 1998-2007 | 99 | 4082 | 162 | 44.36 | 8 | 22 |
