Top 10 Highest partnerships in Test cricket history

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.

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 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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