Top 10 Highest opening partnerships in T20Is

T20 cricket is an exciting brand of cricket and never ceases to excite and entertain. The attacking form of the game is an ultimate treat for all the cricket lovers who like the bowlers getting bashed all around the ground. Similarly, batsmen are the ones who provide this entertainment, and hardly fail to deliver in the format.

From the team’s perspective, the opening partnership is vital in order to put up big scores ahead of the opposition. Therefore, teams choose their best pair of explosive batsmen to open the innings and give them a fast paced head start to the innings. And, there have been many occasion when the openers who have literally destroyed the opposition and set up mammoth partnerships. Here are the highest opening partnerships in T20Is.

10. Graeme Smith, Loots Bosman (South Africa) – 132* v Pakistan:

The match between South Africa and Pakistan at the Wanderers in 2007 created a new example of the dominance of batsmen over bowlers as South African openers Graeme Smith (71 from 40 balls) and Loots Bosman (53 from 32 balls) raced past the target of 130 in just 12th over. This also resulted in the first ever 10-wicket win in T20I. Smith and Bosman were unstoppable and tore the Pakistan bowlers apart, hitting 14 fours and 6 sixes between them which were nearly twice as many as the Pakistani batsmen hit in the first innings. The chase was brought to an end in style by Skipper Smith who hit Shahid Afridi for a huge six.