Top 10 Highest partnerships in Test cricket history

Highest partnerships in Test

Top 10 Highest partnerships in Test cricket history

Of very few things in cricket upon whom there is a universal agreement across all formats is to establish runs partnerships. Although in limited overs cricket especially in T20 format their importance gets faded because of the hasty nature of the game. However a total denial of the fact can never be agreed upon. In test format especially, the first and foremost purpose of a pair is to get going alongside each other for as long as possible. The highest opening partnerships in test cricket unarguably lay down the strongest foundations of a solid innings. No matter it is the first batting pair or the last one, establishing a highest runs partnership is always of much importance in test cricket.

 Highest partnerships in Test Sri Lanka

The reason test batsmen, the one who perform exceptionally well in tests, get the reputation of best batsmen is quite obvious. Unlike players who perform in limited overs cricket those plying solid innings in test gather massive respect. That’s is almost a universal fact that test cricket is considered to be the sole criterion for any batsman’s credibility. The steady nature of test format tests the limits of a cricketer. The patience and temperament tried by the elongated version of cricket unveils the real skills of a batsman. On the other hand limited overs cricket does not require a crafted skill level as any seasonal player can make an impact by power-hitting in a few matches.

Highest partnerships in Test

Highest partnership in test cricket feat for any wicket is held by Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene. Both Sri Lankan gentlemen of the game scored a whopping 624 runs for the third wicket against South Africa. No wonder South African bowlers are the most generous in terms of conceding runs. Top 10 highest partnerships in Test format go as under.

Top Highest partnerships in Test cricket history

Highest partnerships by runs
Partners Runs Wkt   Team Opposition Ground Match Date Scorecard
KC Sangakkara, DPMD Jayawardene 624 3rd Sri Lanka v South Africa Colombo (SSC) 27 Jul 2006 Test # 1810
ST Jayasuriya, RS Mahanama 576 2nd Sri Lanka v India Colombo (RPS) 2 Aug 1997 Test # 1374
AH Jones, MD Crowe 467 3rd New Zealand v Sri Lanka Wellington 31 Jan 1991 Test # 1162
WH Ponsford, DG Bradman 451 2nd Australia v England The Oval 18 Aug 1934 Test # 237
Mudassar Nazar, Javed Miandad 451 3rd Pakistan v India Hyderabad (Sind) 14 Jan 1983 Test # 946
AC Voges, SE Marsh 449 4th Australia v West Indies Hobart 10 Dec 2015 Test # 2193
CC Hunte, GS Sobers 446 2nd West Indies v Pakistan Kingston 26 Feb 1958 Test # 450
MS Atapattu, KC Sangakkara 438 2nd Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe Bulawayo 14 May 2004 Test # 1699
DPMD Jayawardene, TT Samaraweera 437 4th Sri Lanka v Pakistan Karachi 21 Feb 2009 Test # 1909
JA Rudolph, HH Dippenaar 429* 3rd South Africa v Bangladesh Chittagong 24 Apr 2003 Test # 1640
ND McKenzie, GC Smith 415 1st South Africa v Bangladesh Chittagong 29 Feb 2008 Test # 1865
MH Mankad, P Roy 413 1st India v New Zealand Chennai 6 Jan 1956 Test # 420
PBH May, MC Cowdrey 411 4th England v West Indies Birmingham 30 May 1957 Test # 439
V Sehwag, R Dravid 410 1st India v Pakistan Lahore 13 Jan 2006 Test # 1781
SG Barnes, DG Bradman 405 5th Australia v England Sydney 13 Dec 1946 Test # 280
GS Sobers, FMM Worrell 399 4th West Indies v England Bridgetown 6 Jan 1960 Test # 485
BA Stokes, JM Bairstow 399 6th England v South Africa Cape Town 2 Jan 2016 Test # 2197
Qasim Umar, Javed Miandad 397 3rd Pakistan v Sri Lanka Faisalabad 16 Oct 1985 Test # 1026
WH Ponsford, DG Bradman 388 4th Australia v England Leeds 20 Jul 1934 Test # 236
GM Turner, TW Jarvis 387 1st New Zealand v West Indies Georgetown 6 Apr 1972 Test # 696
RT Ponting, MJ Clarke 386 4th Australia v India Adelaide 24 Jan 2012 Test # 2031
SR Waugh, GS Blewett 385 5th Australia v South Africa Johannesburg 28 Feb 1997 Test # 1356
L Hutton, M Leyland 382 2nd England v Australia The Oval 20 Aug 1938 Test # 266
WM Lawry, RB Simpson 382 1st Australia v West Indies Bridgetown 5 May 1965 Test # 589
HM Amla, JH Kallis 377* 3rd South Africa v England The Oval 19 Jul 2012 Test # 2049
VVS Laxman, R Dravid 376 5th India v Australia Kolkata 11 Mar 2001 Test # 1535
WJ Edrich, DCS Compton 370 3rd England v South Africa Lord’s 21 Jun 1947 Test # 286
M Vijay, CA Pujara 370 2nd India v Australia Hyderabad (Deccan) 2 Mar 2013 Test # 2076
JH Edrich, KF Barrington 369 2nd England v New Zealand Leeds 8 Jul 1965 Test # 593
GC Smith, HH Gibbs 368 1st South Africa v Pakistan Cape Town 2 Jan 2003 Test # 1637
KS Williamson, BJ Watling 365* 6th New Zealand v Sri Lanka Wellington 3 Jan 2015 Test # 2155
V Kohli, AM Rahane 365 4th India v New Zealand Indore 8 Oct 2016 Test # 2223
Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf 363 3rd Pakistan v England Leeds 4 Aug 2006 Test # 1813
L Hutton, C Washbrook 359 1st England v South Africa Johannesburg 27 Dec 1948 Test # 307
Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim 359 5th Bangladesh v New Zealand Wellington 12 Jan 2017 Test # 2246
SR Tendulkar, VVS Laxman 353 4th India v Australia Sydney 2 Jan 2004 Test # 1680
Ijaz Ahmed, Inzamam-ul-Haq 352* 3rd Pakistan v Sri Lanka Dhaka 12 Mar 1999 Test # 1450
RT Ponting, MJ Clarke 352 4th Australia v Pakistan Hobart 14 Jan 2010 Test # 1947
BB McCullum, BJ Watling 352 6th New Zealand v India Wellington 14 Feb 2014 Test # 2120
GA Gooch, DI Gower 351 2nd England v Australia The Oval 29 Aug 1985 Test # 1022
DPMD Jayawardene, HAPW Jayawardene 351 6th Sri Lanka v India Ahmedabad 16 Nov 2009 Test # 1933
Mushtaq Mohammad, Asif Iqbal 350 4th Pakistan v New Zealand Dunedin 7 Feb 1973 Test # 712
IR Bell, KP Pietersen 350 3rd England v India The Oval 18 Aug 2011 Test # 2004
DS Atkinson, CC Depeiaza 347 7th West Indies v Australia Bridgetown 14 May 1955 Test # 406
JHW Fingleton, DG Bradman 346 6th Australia v England Melbourne 1 Jan 1937 Test # 257
SM Gavaskar, DB Vengsarkar 344* 2nd India v West Indies Kolkata 29 Dec 1978 Test # 839
EJ Barlow, RG Pollock 341 3rd South Africa v Australia Adelaide 24 Jan 1964 Test # 553
HM Amla, JH Kallis 340 3rd South Africa v India Nagpur 6 Feb 2010 Test # 1951
MJ Guptill, BB McCullum 339 6th New Zealand v Bangladesh Hamilton 15 Feb 2010 Test # 1953
ED Weekes, FMM Worrell 338 3rd West Indies v England Port of Spain 17 Mar 1954 Test # 385
GC Smith, HH Gibbs 338 1st South Africa v England Birmingham 24 Jul 2003 Test # 1651
GC Smith, AB de Villiers 338 5th South Africa v Pakistan Dubai (DSC) 23 Oct 2013 Test # 2100
WM Lawry, KD Walters 336 4th Australia v West Indies Sydney 14 Feb 1969 Test # 646
V Sehwag, SR Tendulkar 336 3rd India v Pakistan Multan 28 Mar 2004 Test # 1693
MS Atapattu, ST Jayasuriya 335 1st Sri Lanka v Pakistan Kandy 28 Jun 2000 Test # 1502
MJ Clarke, MEK Hussey 334* 5th Australia v India Sydney 3 Jan 2012 Test # 2027
AR Border, SR Waugh 332* 5th Australia v England Leeds 22 Jul 1993 Test # 1227
IJL Trott, SCJ Broad 332 8th England v Pakistan Lord’s 26 Aug 2010 Test # 1971
RT Robinson, DI Gower 331 2nd England v Australia Birmingham 15 Aug 1985 Test # 1021
CH Gayle, RR Sarwan 331 2nd West Indies v South Africa St John’s 29 Apr 2005 Test # 1750
HM Amla, JH Kallis 330 3rd South Africa v New Zealand Johannesburg 8 Nov 2007 Test # 1846
AN Cook, IJL Trott 329* 2nd England v Australia Brisbane 25 Nov 2010 Test # 1981
GR Marsh, MA Taylor 329 1st Australia v England Nottingham 10 Aug 1989 Test # 1125
JL Langer, RT Ponting 327 5th Australia v Pakistan Perth 26 Nov 1999 Test # 1472
DM Bravo, MN Samuels 326 3rd West Indies v Bangladesh Khulna 21 Nov 2012 Test # 2060
Younis Khan, Inzamam-ul-Haq 324 3rd Pakistan v India Bengaluru 24 Mar 2005 Test # 1743
JB Hobbs, W Rhodes 323 1st England v Australia Melbourne 9 Feb 1912 Test # 119
Aamer Sohail, Inzamam-ul-Haq 323 3rd Pakistan v West Indies Rawalpindi 29 Nov 1997 Test # 1389
Javed Miandad, Saleem Malik 322 4th Pakistan v England Birmingham 4 Jun 1992 Test # 1189
BC Lara, JC Adams 322 5th West Indies v Australia Kingston 13 Mar 1999 Test # 1451
JN Gillespie, MEK Hussey 320 4th Australia v Bangladesh Chittagong 16 Apr 2006 Test # 1799
A Melville, AD Nourse 319 3rd South Africa v England Nottingham 7 Jun 1947 Test # 285
Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf 319 3rd Pakistan v India Lahore 13 Jan 2006 Test # 1781
DR Martyn, AC Gilchrist 317 6th Australia v South Africa Johannesburg 22 Feb 2002 Test # 1590
GR Viswanath, Yashpal Sharma 316 3rd India v England Chennai 13 Jan 1982 Test # 918
HH Gibbs, JH Kallis 315* 2nd South Africa v New Zealand Christchurch 11 Mar 1999 Test # 1449
RT Ponting, DS Lehmann 315 3rd Australia v West Indies Port of Spain 19 Apr 2003 Test # 1639
G Gambhir, R Dravid 314 2nd India v England Mohali 19 Dec 2008 Test # 1901
Wasim Akram, Saqlain Mushtaq 313 8th Pakistan v Zimbabwe Sheikhupura 17 Oct 1996 Test # 1336
Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes 312 1st Bangladesh v Pakistan Khulna 28 Apr 2015 Test # 2159
KC Sangakkara, DPMD Jayawardene 311 3rd Sri Lanka v Bangladesh Kandy 11 Jul 2007 Test # 1839
PD Collingwood, KP Pietersen 310 4th England v Australia Adelaide 1 Dec 2006 Test # 1819
Waqar Hasan, Imtiaz Ahmed 308 7th Pakistan v New Zealand Lahore 26 Oct 1955 Test # 414
RB Richardson, IVA Richards 308 3rd West Indies v Australia St John’s 7 Apr 1984 Test # 987
GA Gooch, AJ Lamb 308 3rd England v India Lord’s 26 Jul 1990 Test # 1148
M Vijay, SR Tendulkar 308 3rd India v Australia Bengaluru 9 Oct 2010 Test # 1973
HM Amla, AB de Villiers 308 4th South Africa v West Indies Centurion 17 Dec 2014 Test # 2150
MEK Hussey, BJ Haddin 307 6th Australia v England Brisbane 25 Nov 2010 Test # 1981
IVA Richards, AI Kallicharran 303 3rd West Indies v England Nottingham 3 Jun 1976 Test # 777
MA Atherton, RA Smith 303 3rd England v West Indies St John’s 16 Apr 1994 Test # 1259
R Dravid, VVS Laxman 303 5th India v Australia Adelaide 12 Dec 2003 Test # 1673
DA Warner, UT Khawaja 302 2nd Australia v New Zealand Perth 13 Nov 2015 Test # 2187
AR Morris, DG Bradman 301 2nd Australia v England Leeds 22 Jul 1948 Test # 302
GC Smith, HH Gibbs 301 1st South Africa v West Indies Centurion 16 Jan 2004 Test # 1682
SC Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh 300 5th India v Pakistan Bengaluru 8 Dec 2007 Test # 1852

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