Highest opening partnerships in ODIs

#4 Quinton de Kock & Hashim Amla: 282* vs Bangladesh, Kimberley

One of the most prolific ODI pairs in modern cricket

A high on confidence Bangladeshi side arrived on the shores of the Rainbow Nation to repeat their heroics of 2015 against Proteas, things looked promising for them as the first innings of their ODI opening encounter tallied to 278 runs.

However, South Africa were not going to be outdone this time. The fiery de Kock and the sagacious Amla were ruthless in their performance like the former, yet calm in their temperament like the latter as they built a strong platform for South Africa to build their chase upon.

In the process, the openers became slightly too greedy as they exploited their own start and ensured that nobody else from the South African camp needed to undergo the troubles of batting. With 43 balls intact, they had racked up all the runs needed for a win in a display of batting perfection that could be termed only flawless.

Once again, de Kock was the one who put Bangladesh on to the backfoot with a stroke-filled 168(145) while Amla calmly gathered his 110 runs off 112 balls putting the visitors to the sword in incognito.