TOP 10 Highest partnership runs by a pair in ODIs

Highest partnership runs Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene

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.

Highest partnership runs Sachin and Ganguly

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.

Highest partnership runs Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene

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

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