World Cup Highest Partnerships by Runs

Highest Partnerships by Runs: When we talk about a team’s strategy to win a cricket match, the focus is mainly to build a big partnership in both bowling and batting simultaneously. Being a player, you might score a century or take a fifer, but you certainly have to act in the bunch to win the match eventually. This is where building a crucial partnership at the most important junctures of a match holds the key. With that been said, let’s take a look at the top 10 world cup highest partnerships by runs.

These two Caribbean players are widely been regarded as the backbone for the West Indian team in the recent times. Still, their partnership of 372 runs against Zimbabwe at Canberra in world cup 2015 came as the highest partnerships for any wickets in the world cup. The partnership was held for the 2nd wickets and West Indies eventually won the match.

Dravid and Ganguly have been witness to some of the best partnerships around in world cricket and this one came against Srilanka in Taunton during the world cup 1999. Ganguly scored a record 183 whilst Dravid scored crucial 145 runs and Indian went on to secure a big victory out of the same. Sourav Ganguly & Rahul Dravid have highest partnerships by runs in the World Cup.

This Sri Lankan duo was one of the reasons behind Sri Lanka’s mind-blowing performance in the world cup 2011 and it was during one of their matches against Zimbabwe at Pallekelle, they held a big partnership of 282 runs. The deadly duo builds these partnerships for the opening wicket and handed an easy victory to their side in the whole process.

Warner and Smith come as a backbone for the Aussie team and they have been the key to most of the victories by the Australian team in recent times. It was their partnership of 260 runs for the second wickets against the Afghanistan team during the world cup 2015, which secured a convincing victory for their team as a result.

Miller and Duminy can be regarded as the perfect combination of “ Fire and Ice” in the world of cricket and they have proved exactly whilst building this partnership of 256 runs against the Zimbabwe team in 2015 world cup. The partnership has been held for the 5th wicket in the match held at the Hamilton ground.

Amla and Duplessis got a history of some great partnership for the proteins in the International cricket and they have kept the same momentum going whilst building this great partnership of 247 runs against Ireland in the world cup 2015. The partnership has been held for the 2nd wicket and the match has been held at the Canberra.

Sachin and Ganguly together have formed a great opening partnership for the Indian team for more than a decade and this was a special one which came against Namibia in the 2003 world cup. The partnership has been held for the 2nd wicket and the match was played at Pietermaritzburg in South Africa.

Dravid and Sachin have been a part of some of the most memorable performances by the team India and together they have been quite brilliant in the process. This was one of their special ones which came against Kenya at Bristol in the world cup 1999 and both of the players held a partnership of 237 for the 3rd wicket to hand their team a memorable victory.

Pointing and Martyn can be quoted as the “Immortal pillars “of the Australian team in the 21st century and they have been absolutely brutal on their opponents as a wolf pack. One of their crucial partnerships came against the Indian team in the world cup 2003 finals where they held on for 234 runs and outclassed India from the match in the first innings only.

This is probably the second time that this pair is featuring in our list and such was their brilliance for the Sri Lankan team as an opening pair. It was their match against England at Colombo where they put on a partnership of 231 runs for the 1st wicket in the world cup 2011. This was the reason Srilanka ensured a convincing victory on their European rivals.