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#2 Alex Hales & Joe Root
Like with Roy, Alex Hales has had a number of important matches with the England Test captain Joe Root. Root bats at number three in ODI cricket and has unusually scored more runs with Hales than the openers have.
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Their average of 71.26 is only beaten by Kohli and Sharma, and the England pair have scored 1,639 runs together. Five fifty and nine hundred-run partnerships have included a 248 against Pakistan in August 2016. In this match, England scored the highest ever innings total of 444.
Despite changes in England's opening partnership, Hales and Root often lay a solid foundation for the team.
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Edited by Anuradha Santhanam
