Favourite Partnerships

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[NZTailender]

Pietersen & Collingwood

This one.

Taylor & Ryder.

AB & JP.

And formerly: Fleming & Astle.

 

[The Sean]

Always loved Wasim and Waqar - certainly my favourite bowling combination.

From history, I would have loved to have watched Ranji and Fry batting together for Sussex on a sunny afternoon at Hove.

 

[popepouri]

So many:

Pollock/Donald

Akram/Younis

Warne/McGrath

Langer/Hayden

Cronje/Rhodes

Thorpe/Hick

Walsh/Ambrose

Kumble/Srinath

Kaluwitharana/Jayasuriya

 

[zaremba]

Fry / Ranji

A bit before my time but by all reports they were pretty good

More recent times:

Greenidge / Haynes
Wasim / Waqar
Donald / Pollock
Warne / McGrath

 

[zaremba]

And for those who like their Scottish cricket,


Andy Goram / Andy Goram

 

[GIMH]

 

[zaremba]

Always loved Wasim and Waqar - certainly my favourite bowling combination.

From history, I would have loved to have watched Ranji and Fry betting together for Sussex on a sunny afternoon at Hove.

Sorry only just seen this - had I done so I wouldn't have bothered posting

You a Sussex fan?

 

[grant28]

Batting:
Smith and Gibbs
Langer and Hayden
Trescothick and Vaughan
Trescothick and Strauss
Flintoff and G Jones
Ganguly and Tendulkar

Bowling:
Warne and McGrath
McGrath and Lee
Flintoff and S Jones
Pollock and Ntini

But these are all in the past, so my favourite nowadays would be:

Batting - Pietersen and Collingwood

Bowling - Sidebottom and Anderson

 

[Burgey]

Hughes and Warner.

Sehwag and Gambhir have the potential to be the greatest of all time in both tests and one dayers.

Any partnership involving one Shaun Marsh is not worth watching.

Move over Braddles and Pondie.....

 

[shankar]

Tendulkar and Azharuddin
McGrath and Warne
Donald and Pollock

 

[The Sean]

Sorry only just seen this - had I done so I wouldn't have bothered posting

You a Sussex fan?

I don't actually claim allegiance to any particular County, but from all I've read and heard about those two batting together in the early years of the 20th Century it's impossibly not to be enraptured. I remember CMJ, when profiling Fry, wrote something like:

In what one likes to think of as a typical day at Hove, Fry would open with Vine and then as a matter of course enjoy an exhilarating later stand with Ranji. At the end of the day Sussex would be 500 for 2, with Fry some 200 not out.

That's from memory, but if it isn't word-perfect it's pretty close. The fact that they had differing styles as well - Fry the principled technician, Ranji the artist - would have just added to the spectacle.

 

[andruid]

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