The Royals failed to build a good opening partnership.

The Royals got an opening partnership of 65 runs.

It remains the highest opening partnership of all time in List A cricket.

In their response, England built an opening partnership of 74 runs and continued to score steadily.

This took the opening partnership to 168, the best by England in the series.

For the next few years he formed a fairly successful opening partnership with Gayle.

He had batted for over four hours in an opening partnership of 171 during which he made two boundaries.

Is that a sign they are not sure of their best opening partnership?

Barnes attacked immediately, and put on an opening partnership of 136 with Morris, before the latter fell.

Here he formed a successful opening partnership with John Tunnicliffe.