Rohit Sharma and David Warner
Indian opening batsman Rohit Sharma and Australian opening batsman David Warner are simply on the top positions in the list of great openers in the present time. They were the top two most run-scorers in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 where Rohit (648 runs) just scored one more run from Warner (647 runs). Both of them are also very successful in the IPL career.
Rohit Sharma has scored 4898 runs in 188 IPL matches (average 31.60; strike-rate 130.82), including one century and 36 half-centuries. He started his IPL career playing for the Deccan Chargers (DC), where he served between 2008 and 2010, he is playing for the present team Mumbai Indians (MI) since IPL 2011. While Rohit has won five IPL trophies, he won last four of these trophies as the captain of Mumbai Indians (2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019) and the first one as a non-captain for the Deccan Chargers (2009). In the IPL 2009, the young Deccan Chargers cricketer won the Emerging player of the year award, when he not only scored 362 runs, but he also picked up 11 wickets, including a hat-trick.
On the other hand, while Warner served for the Delhi Daredevils (DD) between 2009 and 2013, he is playing dominating cricket for the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) since IPL 2014. The left-handed batsman has scored 4706 runs in 126 IPL matches (average 43.17; strike-rate 142.39), including four centuries and 44 half-centuries. While Warner led the SRH to win their first IPL trophy in 2016, he has also won three IPL Orange Caps (2015, 2017 and 2019).
While both of them dominant openers, it will great to the cricket fans to see this left-right opening combination in the same IPL team.