Partnership Records

Most 200+ Partnerships by a Batting Pair in ODI

PartnersTeamNo. of 200 PartnershipsHighest Partnership
Virat Kohli, Rohit SharmaIndia5246
Sourav Ganguly, Sachin TendulkarIndia3258
Gautam Gambhir, Virat KohliIndia3224
Mahela Jayawardene, Upul TharangaSri Lanka3215
Hashim Amla, Quinton de KockSouth Africa2282*
Hashim Amla, AB de VilliersSouth Africa2238
Hashim Amla, Rilee RossouwSouth Africa2247
Mohammad Azharuddin, Ajay JadejaIndia2275*
Quinton de Kock, Rassie van der DussenSouth Africa2204
Niroshan Dickwella, Danushka GunathilakaSri Lanka2229
Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kumar SangakkaraSri Lanka2210*
Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul TharangaSri Lanka2282
Rahul Dravid, Sourav GangulyIndia2318
Rahul Dravid, Sachin TendulkarIndia2331
Avishka Fernando, Kusal MendisSri Lanka2239
Aaron Finch, David WarnerAustralia2258*
Matthew Hayden, Ricky PontingAustralia2219
Travis Head, David WarnerAustralia2284
Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah GurbazAfghanistan2256
Sanath Jayasuriya, Upul TharangaSri Lanka2286
Mohammad Yousuf, Shoaib MalikPakistan2206
Ramiz Raja, Saeed AnwarPakistan2204

Key Insights

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli top the list of pairs with the most 200-plus runs partnerships in ODIs. They have a total of five 200-plus run partnerships in ODIs, four of which came in the first innings, the most by a pair.

Three of the stands between Sharma and Kohli came in India, the most 200-plus run partnerships by a pair at home in ODIs.

Kohli has featured in eight partnerships of 200 or more runs, the most by a batter in ODI cricket.

The popular Indian pair of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly is the only pair to have two 250-plus run ODI partnerships.

All three 200-plus stands between Tendulkar and Ganguly came in away-from-home conditions, the most by a batting pair in ODIs.

Ganguly and Tendulkar have also shared the most century partnerships in ODIs, having stitched 26 100-plus run stands together. Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara are the other pair with 20 century partnerships in this format.

Ganguly and Tendulkar forged together 8227 runs, the most partnership runs by a pair in ODI cricket.

Sri Lanka’s Upul Tharanga and South Africa’s Hashim Amla featured in two or more 200-plus run partnerships with three different partners.

Tharanga had two 200-plus run partnerships with Sanath Jayasuriya and Mahela Jayawardene each while chasing in ODIs. And all those partnerships came in successful run chases.

Tharanga’s 286-run stand with Jayasuriya against England in 2006 is the highest by a pair in a run chase in ODI cricket.

Rahul Dravid is the only batter to have been part of two 300-plus run partnerships in ODI cricket.

Desmond Haynes and Viv Richards were the first pair to stitch a 200-plus run stand in an ODI innings. The West Indies pair put 205 runs together for the second wicket against Australia at the MCG in 1979.

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