4 lethal opening batting combinations at the 2019 World Cup

#2 Rohit Sharma & Shikhar Dhawan (India)

Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan have been settled as openers for India for a long time. They are arguably the most consistently performing opening combination in world cricket. India owes a lot of their recent ODI success to the solid starts that Dhawan and Sharma have been able to produce. Sharma has been outstanding since switching from the middle to the top of the order.

As an opener, Sharma has scored 4627 runs at an average of 53.8 runs per innings. He has scored 15 hundreds and 2 quality double hundreds. Sharma scores his runs at an average of 91.1 runs per 100 balls faced. Shikhar Dhawan has been a stalwart at the top of the order for years. In 101 matches he has scored 43611 runs at an average of 45.61 runs per innings. He has scored 13 hundreds and 25 fifties while maintaining an impressive strike rate of 93.44 runs per 100 balls faced.

These two players are both world-class performers. They both know their own games very well and understand how to play in English conditions. Knowing the quality of the batsman below them in the order frees them up to play without fear. This prospect should have opposing captains thinking about the best way to stop the onslaught before it starts.