Most prolific batting pairs for England across all 3 formats

#4 Marcus Trescothick and Michael Vaughan

Michael Vaughan and Marcus Trescothick

During the early to mid-noughties, Michael Vaughan emerged as England's best batsman and forged an extremely productive partnership with left-handed opening batsman Marcus Trescothick in all formats of the game. Vaughan was a technically gifted batsman, who was also an excellent stroke-maker and had the capability of scoring big hundreds. Trescothick, on the other hand, wasn't the most orthodox of opening batsmen but his technique allowed him to get runs with ease all over the world.

Admittedly, Trescothick was a better limited-overs batsman than Vaughan was but the latter had his moments too. They were both top order players and forged an excellent understanding. Hence, even though they played only 5 T20 games between themselves (Vaughan 2 and Trescothick 3), they made up for it in Tests and ODIs.

They shared 104 partnerships from 2000 to 2005 and aggregated a total of 4435 runs at an average of 44.79. The number of stands worth 100 or more stood at 12, while they made fifty or more on 25 occasions.