Most runs for Opening partnerships in Cricket World Cup

Nothing can beat a good opening partnership for a batting team as it could set a strong platform for the team to score big and quick runs in the final overs. Recently Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma recorded the 10^th highest opening partnership in World Cup by scoring 172 runs together. But there have been pairs that have performed and played well together for their team for a long time and as a team the team has also gone on to perform extremely well.

In today’s stat we will take a look at list of opening pairs that have scored most number of runs together in ODI World Cup –

Opening Pair	Innings	Runs	Highest	100	50
Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden (Aus)	20	1220	172	5	7
Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)	17	925	153	2	6
Tilkaratane Dilshan, Upul Tharanga (SL)	9	800	282	2	3
Herschelle Gibbs, Gary Kirsten (SA)	12	774	176	4	1
Martin Guptil, Brendon McCullum (NZ)	13	712	166*	3	3
DC Boon, GR Marsh (Aus)	10	592	110	1	5
CG Greenidge, DL Haynes (WI)	11	509	138	2	1
Sunil Gavaskar, K Srikkanth (Ind)	13	469	136	1	3
Brad Haddin, Shane Watson (Aus)	6	467	183	2	1
AB de Villiers, G Smith (SA)	10	430	160	2	1

Stat updated till 10 March, 2015

The opening pair of Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden from Australia is way ahead of any other pair in the Top 10 list with 1220 runs in 20 innings. Both these devastating left-handed opening batsmen can are known for taking the attack to the bowling unit from the word go and that is one of the main reason for their success. Both together have put a highest stand of 172 runs

Second on the list is batting pair of Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag. Together they have scored 925 runs in 17 innings with highest stand of 153 runs.

The best of lot is from T Dilshan and Upul Tharanga, in just 9 innings they have scored 800 runs at an average of 100.00. Their partnership of 282 runs is also the highest first wicket partnership in Cricket World Cup.