the best partnerships in One dayers....

Yesterday, when I wrote something on Indian win in the Second Onedayer, in my jest I had written that 200+ partnerships are rare and that Kohli has been part of that on 3 occasions when India had that 200+ partnerships on 6 occasions.  That is partially untrue as it represents only the 3^rd wicket stand.

Here are 250+ partnerships and as could be seen India heads the table and has 5 among the top 12.   Sourav Ganguly features on 3; Sachin Tendulkar also has 3  (2 amongst them)

There have been 12 occasions when there were 250+ partnerships.  The highest is 331 between Sachin and Dravid at Hyderabad in Nov 99 against New Zealand; Second is the 318 between Ganguly and Dravid at Taunton in WC 1999 against Sri Lanka.

Partners	Runs	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date
SR Tendulkar, R Dravid	331	India	v New Zealand	Hyderabad	8-Nov-99
SC Ganguly, R Dravid	318	India	v Sri Lanka	Taunton	26-May-99
WU Tharanga, ST Jayasuriya	286	Sri Lanka	v England	Leeds	1-Jul-06
WU Tharanga, TM Dilshan	282	Sri Lanka	v Zimbabwe	Pallekele	10-Mar-11
M Azharuddin, A Jadeja	275*	India	v Zimbabwe	Cuttack	9-Apr-98
JAH Marshall, BB McCullum	274	New Zealand	v Ireland	Aberdeen	1-Jul-08
Aamer Sohail, Inzamam-ul-Haq	263	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Sharjah	20-Apr-94
SC Ganguly, SR Tendulkar	258	India	v Kenya	Paarl	24-Oct-01
Saleem Elahi, Abdul Razzaq	257	Pakistan	v South Africa	Port Elizabeth	11-Dec-02
SR Watson, RT Ponting	252*	Australia	v England	Centurion	2-Oct-09
SC Ganguly, SR Tendulkar	252	India	v Sri Lanka	Colombo (RPS)	7-Jul-98
AJ Strauss, IJL Trott	250	England	v Bangladesh	Birmingham	12-Jul-10

With regards

S. Sampathkumar