IPL 2013 : Schedule/results: Chennai v Mumbai Final at Kolkata. Leading run scorer: Michael Hussey | Most wkts: Dwayne Bravo. Points table : Chennai on top, Mumbai second, RR & SRH also in. NZ in Eng : Schedule : 2nd test starts 24th May at Headingley. 1st test : England snatch evenly matched contest by big margin. ICC Champions trophy : starts 6th June (top 8 teams, 15 ODIs). Squads : India | England | Australia | South Africa | Pakistan. New Zealand | Windies | Sri Lanka | Champions trophy records. IPL Records : Most runs | Most wkts | Highest individual scores. Fastest centuries | Fastest fifties | Highest and lowest totals. Most sixes | Highest partnerships | Best bowling figrs in match. In 2012 : Most runs = Gayle (733) | Most wickets = Morkel (25).

Itsonlycricket - Ask a cricket question Opening pair with most runs & century stands in test cricket? Asked by: Bins on 13-11-2010.. Fan Answer Binit The record of most runs as well as most century partnership for the opening wicket is held by former West Indian pair of Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes. They're the only pair to make more than 6000 runs together and only partners to have 16 hundred stands between them. Greenidge and Haynes were vital factors in West Indies' dominance over world cricket in 1970s & 80s while another pair, Mathew Hayden and Justin Langer were doing very well for Australia as OZ team won almost everything anywhere for decade of 2000s untill Langer decided to hang his boots after 2007 Ashes. Upto recently, we had English opening pair of Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook chasing the top but now Strauss has retired, leaving Indian pair of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir rising up the table very quickly. In following table, I've listed the best opening pairs ever in test cricket. note Jack Hobbs and Sutcliffe who started 38 innings for England back in 1920s and collected over 87 runs each time. incredible.. Most runs by an opening pair in test cricket. Batsmen (country) Runs Inns Best Ave 100s 50s Gordon Greenidge + Desmond Haynes (WI) 6482 148 298 47.31 16 26 Mathew Hayden + Justin Langer (Aus) 5655 113 255 51.88 14 24 Alastair Cook + Andrew Strauss (Eng) 4711 117 229 40.96 12 18 Sanath Jayasuriya + Marvan Atapattu (SL) 4469 118 335 40.26 9 24 Virender Sehwag + Gautam Gambhir (Ind) 4244+ 82 233 54.30 11 24 Michael Slater + Mark Taylor (Aus) 3887 78 260 51.14 10 16 Billy Lawry + Bob Simpson (Aus) 3596 62 382 60.94 9 18 Jack Hobbs + Bret Sutcliffe (Eng) 3249 38 283 87.81 15 10 Sunil Gavaskar + Chetan Chauhan (Ind) 3010 59 213 53.75 10 10 Herschelle Gibbs + Graeme Smith (SA) 2983 56 368 56.28 7 10 Len Hutton + Cyril Washbrook (Eng) 2880 51 359 60.00 8 13 Andrew Strauss + M Trescothick (Eng) 2670 52 272 52.35 8 12 Michael Atherton + Graham Gooch (Eng) 2501 44 225 56.84 7 12 Michael Vaughan + M Trescothick (Eng) 2487 54 182 48.76 6 15 Herschelle Gibbs + Gary Kirsten (SA) 2304 52 256 44.30 5 11 Jack Hobbs + Wilfred Rhodes (Eng) 2146 36 323 61.31 8 5 Mohsin Khan + Mudassar Nazar (Pak) 2057 54 157 39.55 3 16 Mark Taylor + Geoff Marsh (Aus) 1980 47 329 45.00 4 9 Sehwag + Gambhir are shown with a "+" cause they are the only pair who continue to open for their country while others have retired or broken apart. Anirban Nag viru & gauti are chasing the top most avg in this coveted list the most difficult job in test is opening.. so they are avging over 58 now.. they can reach 60 if so then will be top in avg & overtake billy lawry & bob... 3300 runs in 57 innings with 10th opening 100 stand.. go for 15-17 100 stand with 5500 runs in 95-100 innings at the start of 2013. Contribute your answer: Your name : Your eMail : Security Code: Not the answer you were looking for? Refer to extended Itsonlycricket records page.