Virat Kohli- Rohit Sharma duo set to reach a huge milestone; Sachin Tendulkar-Sourav Ganguly pair lead the elite list

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are One-Day international greats and have notched a plethora of records while playing together. They work wonderfully together as a pair and when the partnership works, it's like gold dust. People keep looking at them with Ogling mouths and are in awe of these two cricketing greats. Whenever they put up a partnership together it is like a combination of fire and ice, which are working together to see India through difficult situations and then make the team gain the upper hand in matches.

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are just 94 runs short of a huge milestone as a pair ahead of India's ODI series against England, starting Tuesday. The duo is eighth in the list of pairs with the highest partnership runs in ODIs with their 4906 runs and needs just 94 runs more to become the eighth pair to complete 5000 partnership runs in the 50-over format. This elite list is led by Team India greats Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly, who put together 8227 runs in 176 innings at an average of 47.55 runs.

The pair of Rohit and Shikhar Dhawan is the second set of Indians in the 5000-run list, having scored 5023 runs together in 112 innings at an average of 45.25. Virat and Rohit, however, will become the fastest to reach the milestone, having scored their 4906 runs in just 81 innings so far, at an incredible average of 64.55 runs. All other pairs in the 5000-run partnership list have taken more than 100 innings to reach the milestone.

Rohit Sharma, who recently took over from Kohli as India's full-time white-ball captain, is the only batter apart from Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara to be in the 5000-run partnership list twice. Sangakkara had put up 5992 runs alongside Mahela Jayewardene and 5475 runs with Tillakaratne Dilshan.

The pair, who have scored 982 runs between themselves in ODI matches against West Indies, also stand 78 runs away from becoming the first Indian pair to reach the milestone of 1000 runs against West Indies and join Ganguly and Sachin in become the second batting pair from India to have two or more partnership tallies of 1000 runs or more against a single opponent. Rohit and Kohli have previously scored 1128 runs against Australia in 20 innings.