The best ODI opening pair ever?

[Azzurri]

According to me ganguly and tendulkar are world's best opening pair ever..

Team : India
Innings : 176 (136 times opening)
Total runs : 6609
Average : 49.32/innings when they open together.
Century stands : 26 times over 100 and 29 times over 50 runs for the first wicket...

Man of the match : 56 awards to Sachin Tendulkar (the most) and 31 for Sourav Ganguly (3rd most)....

Highest : 258 (vs Kenya), 252 (vs SL), 244 (vs Namibia), 197 (vs Zimbabwe), 193 (vs South Africa), 175 (vs Australia).. thrice these two have won the match without being separated!

 

[Saurav]

Yeah closely followed by Sachin-Sehwag

 

[Red Devil]

Hayden and Gilchrist partnership would up there too.


Greenidge and Haynes, never saw them but I heard they were a great opening pair.

 

[PakistanKnight]

If I remember correctly,Nasir-Hafeez combo was beastly as well. They averaged something around 50 as well,with a small sample,though.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Greenidge and Haynes for me in ODIS. The Gilly and Haydos partnership was pretty brutal.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Opening Pairs with an Aggregate of 1000 Runs or more

http://www.howstat.com/cricket/statistics/Matches/MatchTopOpeners_ODI.asp

 

[Red Devil]

An average of 52.02 in over 100 innings is actually pretty awesome!

 

[samplepiece]

Tendulkar/Jadeja and Gilchrist/katich are surprise entries.

 

[Executioner]

Hayden-Gilly

Smith-Gibbs

SRT-Ganguly

 

[Reverselap]

Records in World Cups and outside Asia please?

 

[Azzurri]

Records in World Cups and outside Asia please?

i m on cell phone now ..iwill try to provide it later or better ask web guru for this

 

[Red Devil]

Opening Pairs in WCs

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/en...ip_wicket;template=results;trophy=12;type=fow

 

[Azzurri]

here is our mini webguru with stats

 

[Wattoo]

WORLD CUP

ASIA CUP

 

[Hitman]

Sachin and Ganguly.

 

[Mobashir]

Gilly-Hayden and Ganguly-Sachin are the two that comes to mind.

 

[salahudin]

Sachin-Ganguly
Hayden-Gilchrist
Sachin-sehwag

Top 3

For a shortwhile Imran Farhat and Yasir Hameed were a very good pair

They had 4 consecutive 100+ partnerships

 

[srh]

According to me ganguly and tendulkar are world's best opening pair ever..

Team : India
Innings : 176 (136 times opening)
Total runs : 6609
Average : 49.32/innings when they open together.
Century stands : 26 times over 100 and 29 times over 50 runs for the first wicket...

Man of the match : 56 awards to Sachin Tendulkar (the most) and 31 for Sourav Ganguly (3rd most)....

Highest : 258 (vs Kenya), 252 (vs SL), 244 (vs Namibia), 197 (vs Zimbabwe), 193 (vs South Africa), 175 (vs Australia).. thrice these two have won the match without being separated!

if its a flat track then nobody is better than Indian openers.

 

[sam_ahm]

Gilly - Hayden

Haynes - Greenidge

Sachin - Saurav

Gilly - M Waugh

Sachin - Sehwag

 

[Cricfan4eva]

Gilly-Hayden followed by SRT and Ganguly.

If Gilly-Haydos stayed together for 10-15 overs you almost knew the game was gone.

 

[GreenKnightRises]

Hayden Ghilchrist should be up first

Then Sachin-Saurav

Anwar-Afridi... (any one..??)

 

[sam_ahm]

Gilly-Hayden followed by SRT and Ganguly.

If Gilly-Haydos stayed together for 10-15 overs you almost knew the game was gone.

Yes, the other reason is also that Haydos and Gilly used to do it often at the big stage, look at the World Cups, Champions Trophy, man they used to take you to the cleaners!

 

[Sandeep]

Gilchrist-Hayden
Sachin-Ganguly
Greenidge-Haynes
Sachin-Sehwag
.....
crap

 

[Justcrazy]

Tendulkar - Ganguly are best , having opened in so many games.

 

[Aman]

Gilly and Hayden for me

 

[Azzurri]

Gilly and Hayden for me

Another great opening pair...:ahmed

 

[London_Lahori]

Hayden and Gilchrist was a dominating opening pair.

 

[Electron]

From ones I have seen -
1) Sachin-Ganguly
2) Hayden-gilli, Sachin- Sehwag

 

[ST1998]

Would be interesting to see the S/rs of these 2 pairs, Ganguly-Tendulkar and Gilly-Hayden.

 

[Azzurri]

Anwar-sohail pair was a very decent pair..

 

[Bowled 'im]

Just the sight of Gilly / Hayden coming out to open the batting put fear in teams. Quite often they took the game away in the first 10 overs - and if they got out, the rest of the batting was almost as destructive in those days. I remember always feeling annoyed when Clarke came in as he would often slow the run rate down and I wanted to see the likes of Andrew symonds bat!

My how times have changed! We no longer have a strong batting line up and I usually breath a sigh of relief when Clarke comes in now , hoping he will be stable and steady the ship.

 

[Cricfan4eva]

Just the sight of Gilly / Hayden coming out to open the batting put fear in teams. Quite often they took the game away in the first 10 overs - and if they got out, the rest of the batting was almost as destructive in those days. I remember always feeling annoyed when Clarke came in as he would often slow the run rate down and I wanted to see the likes of Andrew symonds bat!

My how times have changed! We no longer have a strong batting line up and I usually breath a sigh of relief when Clarke comes in now , hoping he will be stable and steady the ship.

Yeah, Symmo was a beast. Clarke and Martyn seemed a little out place in such a destructive batting order.

 

[Gotham Cronie]

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[Mobashir]

Hafeez and Farhat are also right up there with the best!

 

[akheR]

Sachin and Ganguly, but would have LOVED to see Sachin partnering during the 90s.

 

[SOSami]

From partberships I've actually seen, has to go with the consensus - Sachin and Ganguly.

 

[kungfu90]

Kalu-Jaya were also great.

 

[Bilal7]

Sachin and Sehwag get my vote.

 

[Azzurri]

sachin and ganguly all the way ..

 

[Buffet]

Sachin and Ganguly

 

[Anfield]

A toss between Hayden and Gilchrist and Tendulkar and Ganguly.

Saeed Anwar and Aamir Sohail were decent too.

 

[Justcrazy]

Sachin and ganguly no doubt , if we are unbiased.

 

[ahmedzee]

Haynes-Greenidge
Sachin-Ganguly
Hayden-Gilly

That's my order...it is backed up by their average, with number of games played over 100.

 

[manofsteel]

Gayle and Jacobs

 

[Abdullah719]

Was just thinking about this recently. Amla and de Kock, Rohit and Dhawan have done very well in recent times though the former haven't done much in ICC Trophies.

 

[Justcrazy]

Ganguly and Tendulkar are tough to beat.

 

[Rayyman]

Azhar and Fakhar

 

[santos11]

Rohit Dhawan

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

Jaysuria and Kalu are my personal favorite. Revolutionized odi cricket.

 

[msb314]

According to me ganguly and tendulkar are world's best opening pair ever..

Team : India
Innings : 176 (136 times opening)
Total runs : 6609
Average : 49.32/innings when they open together.
Century stands : 26 times over 100 and 29 times over 50 runs for the first wicket...

Man of the match : 56 awards to Sachin Tendulkar (the most) and 31 for Sourav Ganguly (3rd most)....

Highest : 258 (vs Kenya), 252 (vs SL), 244 (vs Namibia), 197 (vs Zimbabwe), 193 (vs South Africa), 175 (vs Australia).. thrice these two have won the match without being separated!

Agree.

Thats what I thought too.

Anwar and Sohail were good too.

 

[ExplicitAI]

In my time of watching cricket it's definitely Sachin and Sehwag, that was such a dangerous opening pair even though Sachin wasn't as aggressive as he was compared to the 90's.

 

[The_Odd_One]

Hayden and Gilchrist

Then

Tendulkar and Ganguly

 

[Mobashir]

No one can beat Hayden and Gilly. The way they dominated was just too good.

India has also got some superb opening pairs: Ganguly-Tendulkar, Tendulkar-Sehwag.
I used to like Smith-Gibbs a lot also.