At the turn of the century, Indian batsmen held more than half the ODI partnership records. To be precise, the partnerships for the first five wickets plus the 9th wicket.
On 31 December, 1999, these were the partnership records for ODIs:
1st: SC Ganguly and SR Tendulkar, 252 vs SL, Colombo (Premadasa), 07/07/1998
2nd: SR Tendulkar and R Dravid, 331 vs NZ, Hyderabad (Deccan), 08/11/1999
3rd: R Dravid and SR Tendulkar, 237* v Ken, Bristol, 23/05/1999
4th: M Azharuddin and A Jadeja, 275* v Zim, Cuttack, 09/04/1998
5th: M Azharuddin and A Jadeja, 223 v SL, Colombo (Premadasa), 17/08/1997
The other record ODI partnerships on that date were:
6th: MO Odumbe and AV Vadher, 161, Ken v SL, Southampton, 30/05/1999
7th: TM Odoyo and AO Suji, Ken v Zim, 119, Nairobi (Aga), 16/10/1997
8th: PR Reiffel and SK Warne, 160, Aus v SA, Port Elizabeth, 04/04/1994
9th: Kapil Dev and SMH Kirmani, 126*, Ind v Zim, Tunbridge Wells, 18/06/1983
10th: IVA Richards and MA Holding, 106*, WI v Eng, Manchester, 31/05/1984
Note that the 4th and 10th wicket records mentioned above are still the world ODI records at the time of writing (29/10/2017).
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