Partnerships play a key role in any innings and when there is a pair, who can consistently score runs then that’s the best thing any team could ask for. Today we will take a look list of partners who have consistently scored runs and also kept wickets intact for the team. Things get better when the partnerships cross hundred runs in Test cricket.
Let us take a look at list of partners with most number of partnerships that have crossed 100 in Test Cricket:
|
Players |
Innings |
Runs |
100+ Partnership |
Highest |
|
Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid (Ind) |
143 |
6920 |
20 |
249 |
|
Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara (SL) |
120 |
6554 |
19 |
624 |
|
Matthew Hayden and Ricky Ponting (Aus) |
76 |
4765 |
16 |
272 |
|
CG Greenidge and DL Haynes (WI) |
148 |
6482 |
16 |
298 |
|
JB Hobbs and H Sutcliffe (Eng) |
39 |
3339 |
15 |
283 |
|
Justin Langer and Ricky Ponting (Aus) |
48 |
3451 |
14 |
327 |
|
Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer (Aus) |
122 |
6081 |
14 |
256 |
|
Alastair Cook and Andrew Strauss (Eng) |
132 |
5253 |
14 |
255 |
|
AB de Villiers and Jacques Kallis (SA) |
44 |
3108 |
13 |
229 |
|
Alastair Cook and Kevin Pietersen (Eng) |
58 |
3558 |
13 |
256 |
Stat updated till 24 December 2014
It’s the Indian pair of Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid who top the list with 20 partnerships that have crossed 100 runs in 143 innings. This pair has consistently scored runs for India and also helped in scoring big totals for the team.
Second in the list are the Sri Lankan pair of Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara with 19 partnerships that have crossed hundred. Moreover, one of the innings also includes their record partnership of 624 runs.
There are just sub-continent pairs in the Top 10 after which the domination is by English and Australian pairs. Ricky Ponting is only one such player who is listed twice in the Top 10 list. He has a good partnership record with Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer along with who Ponting has had 14 partnerships of hundred runs.