The series of big partnerships

About this time last year, I described a way of analysing partnerships in ODI matches.

I started a new table for this year, and noticed how many big partnerships there were in the Sri Lanka - South Africa series. There were 8 that came out with an adjusted score of 100 or more in 5 games. Compare this to last years series where there was a big partnership in about 2/3 of the matches.

Here is the table of the big contributions:

Batsmen Names	Runs	Start	End	DLAS
AB de Villiers, GC Smith	186	70/2, 17.1	256/3, 45.1	194
JH Kallis, HM Amla	144	9/1, 2.4	153/2, 28.3	182
WU Tharanga, TM Dilshan	94	-	94/1, 18.3	133
AN Peterson, GC Smith	84	-	84/1, 13.1	115
GC Smith, HM Amla	76	-	76/1, 16.3	107
AB de Villiers, GC Smith	87	84/1, 13.1	171/2, 23.5	101
WU Tharanga, LD Chandimal	84	21/2, 9.6	105/3, 28.3	101
KC Sangakkara, TM Dilshan	83	17/1, 3.1	100/2, 16.2	100

DLAS is Duckworth-Lewis Adjusted Score

It is clear that the batsmen certainly enjoyed themselves in this series. It will be interesting now to see if the New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Australian or Indian batsmen will enjoy the same success.