The best pairs and combinations of players that cricket has to offer
Pairs in cricket occupy a prominent position. Brilliant performances and mutual efforts have been the hallmarks of particular team mates. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kapil-Dev-c70234 and Dilip Vengsarkar used to be a brilliant pair: they played
104 matches with each other. The Australian Waugh Brothers have been another prominent name in the arena. They were considered to be the saviours of Australian Cricket and played 108 tests matches together. A brilliant contemporary combination in international
cricket includes Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. The duo has played 127 tests for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 together.
Dravid and Tendulkar have had honour of playing more than a hundred matches with some of the best Indian players ever. Over the years, these have included Anil Kumble, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/VVS-Laxman-c2772 and Sourav Ganguly. The best
record holding pair amongst them is Tendulkar and Kumble. The pair won 40 matches and lost 31 out of their 122 tests.
The Australian pair of Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne won 71 of the 104 test matches they played in together. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 lost only 16 matches with the pair’s presence and drew the remaining 17 games. The most
successful of the pairs however remain Viv Richards and Gordon Greenidge. The pair would have achieved a win-loss ratio of 5.00, had they gained one more success. The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 won 56 out of a total of 99 games played together by Viv Richards and Gordon
Greenidge. The pair only lost 11 matches out of those 99 games.
The combination of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rahul-c83321 Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar appeared in 127 matches. With 44 wins and 35 defeats in each others’ presence, the pair earned a win-loss ratio of 1.25. The pair displayed their best
performances during 1996-2010. The second pair that gained prominence during 1998-2010 was Mark Boucher and Jacques Kallis from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757. The winning combination had scored a win-loss ratio of almost 2.03 with 65 wins and 32 losses out of 125 matches.
The third pair that played a total of 122 matches together during the period 1990-2008 is http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Anil-Kumble-c44737 and Sachin Tendulkar. The pair attained win-loss ratio of 1.29 after playing 122 test matches together.
The pair won a total of 40 matches and lost 31.
Australian players Mark Waugh and Steve Waugh played 108 matches together from 1991 to 2002. The pair secured 62 wins for Australia and 24 losses were faced. They earned a win-loss ratio of 2.58.
Australian players dominate in terms of winning combinations with their high win-loss ratios. The combination of Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne earned a win to loss ratio of 4.43 with 71 wins and 16 losses
out of 104 matches. During 1989-99 Ian Healy and Mark http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 earned a win-loss ratio of 2.60 with 52 wins out of 103 matches.
Shane Warne and Mark Waugh made another winning pair from the Australian sides of 1992 to 2002. The players earned a win-loss ratio of 2.56 with 59 wins in 103 matches suffering 23 losses.
The comparative analysis of the pairs from different countries depicts Indian players forming the most combinations. However Australian players remain dominant with their effective combinations in terms of
winning matches.
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