Bengaluru, July 13: Indian openers Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan on Tuesday (July 12) reached a huge milestone as the duo completed 5000 ODI partnershi runs as an opening pair.
The duo achieved this landmark when they added 7 runs in the 12 deliveries of the run chase during India's first ODI of the three-match series against England at the Kennington Oval in London.
With this record, the Rohit-Shikar pair became the fourth duo in the world and the second Indian opening pair to achieve the milestone of 5000 runs and more.
Leading the list is India's Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly, who have a total of 6609 runs followed by Australia's Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden with 5372 runs, and the pair of Desmond Haynes and G Greenridge with 5150 runs.
Here is the top 10 list for most partnership runs as openers in ODIs:
Ranking | Opening Pair | Team | Runs | Innings |
1 | Sachin Tendulkar & Sourav Ganguly | India | 6609 | 136 |
2 | Adam Gilchrist & Matthew Hayden | Australia | 5372 | 114 |
3 | Gordon Greenidge & Desmond Haynes | West Indies | 5150 | 102 |
4 | Rohit Sharma & Shikar Dhawan | India | 5108 | 112 |
5 | Hashim Amla & AB de Villiers | South Africa | 4198 | 93 |
6 | Virender Sehwag & Sachin Tendulkar | India | 3919 | 93 |
7 | Adam Gilchrist & Mark Waugh | Australia | 3853 | 93 |
8 | David Warner & Aaron Finch | Australia | 3710 | 75 |
9 | David Boon & Geoff Marsh | Australia | 3523 | 88 |
10 | Marvan Atapattu & Sanath Jayasuriya | Sri Lanka | 3382 | 79 |
Later, the Rohit-Shikar pair shared an unbeaten stand of 114 to take India past the paltry score of 110 posted by England. This century stand was their 18th in the 50-over format.
Rohit and Shikar are now only behind Sachin Tendulkar-Sourav Ganguly (26) and Tilakaratne Dilshan-Kumar Sangakkara (20) pair for most century partnerships in ODIs. Rohit also shares the same number of century stands (18) in ODIs with Virat Kohli.
Here is the top 10 list for most 100 runs opening partnerships:
Pair | Team | No. of 100 Stands |
Sachin Tendulkar & Sourav Ganguly | India | 26 |
Tilakaratne Dilshan & Kumar Sangakkara | Sri Lanka | 20 |
Rohit Sharma & Shikhar Dhawan | India | 18 |
Rohit Sharma & Virat Kohli | India | 18 |
Adam Gilchrist & Matthew Hayden | Australia | 16 |
Gordon Greenidge & Desmond Haynes | West Indies | 15 |
Mahela Jayawardene & Kumar Sangakkara | Sri Lanka | 15 |
Marvan Atapattu & Sanath Jayasuriya | Sri Lanka | 14 |
Ross Taylor & Kane Williamson | New Zealand | 14 |
Jonny Bairstow & Jason Roy | England | 13 |
As for the match, a six-wicket haul by Jasprit Bumrah and the opening duo's stand guided Team India to a 10-wicket win over England in the first ODI of the three-match series.
Rohit smashed 76 runs off 58 balls while Shikhar scored 31 runs off 54 balls to help the Men in Blue chase down the target of 111 runs in just 18.4 overs. Apart from Bumrah, Mohammed Shami took three wickets while Prasidh Krishna settled for one.