In Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan batsmen are as big a force as there is any batting lineup at home. clear example of this is first two rows in following list in which first two biggest partnerships in test cricket are held by Lankan batters..
624 = Kumar Sangakkara + Mahela Jayawardene. Electing to bat first, visiting South African batsmen were bowled out for only 169 runs in 50.2 overs. Lankans too lost both their openers inside first 4 overs but what followed after that, is a nightmare Proteas bowlers would love to forget. Kumar Sangakkara and captain Mahela Jayawardene batted out first day, were unsaperated on day 2 and absorbed quite a bit of day 3 during their marathon partnership of 624, from 157 overs. final total = 756/5 declared.
Sri Lanka won the test by an innings and 153 runs, despite 4 fighting half centuries from visitors.
576 = Sanath Jayasuriya + Roshan Mahanama. made against India which stood as biggest partnership in test cricket for almost a decade. Jayasuriya and Mahanama's partnership had helped Srilanka not only to save that test match after India's solid 556/7 dec in first innings but also score the biggest test match team total = 952/6d which is still the largest by any team and only the second over 900 total in longest format of cricket.
For opening wicket, Neil McKenzie and Graeme Smith of South Africa hold the record for their 415 runs versus Bangladesh back in February 2008, while Gorden Greenidge + Desmond Haynes of West Indies hold the record of most runs between a opening pair in test cricket = 6482 runs from 148 innings together.
Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid of India have had most century partnerships between them = 16, equal with Mathew Hayden + Ricky Ponting of Australia and Greenidge + Haynes for West Indies.
| Highest partnerships test match cricket. |
| Batsmen (country) |
P'ship |
Wkt |
Versus |
Venue |
Date |
| Kumar Sanakkara + Mahela Jayawardene (SL) |
624 |
3rd |
South Africa |
Colombo |
27 Jul 2006 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya + Roshan Mahanama (SL) |
576 |
2nd |
India |
Colombo |
2 Aug 1997 |
| Martin Crowe + Andrew Jones (NZ) |
467 |
3rd |
Sri Lanka |
Wellington |
31 Jan 1991 |
| Will Ponsford + Don Bradman (Aus) |
451 |
2nd |
England |
The Oval |
18 Aug 1934 |
| Mudassar Nazar + Javed Miandad (Pak) |
451 |
3rd |
India |
Hyderabad |
14 Jan 1983 |
| Conrad Hunte + Gary Sobers (WI) |
446 |
2nd |
Pakistan |
Jamaica |
26 Feb 1958 |
| Marvan Atapattu + Kumar Sangakkara (SL) |
438 |
2nd |
Zimbabwe |
Bulawayo |
14 May 2004 |
| Mahela Jayawardene + T Samaraweera (SL) |
437 |
4th |
Pakistan |
Karachi |
21 Feb 2009 |
| Jacques Rudolph + Boeta Dippenaar (SA) |
429* |
3rd |
Bangladesh |
Chittagong |
24 Apr 2003 |
| Neil McKenzie + Graeme Smith (SA) |
415 |
1st |
Bangladesh |
Chittagong |
29 Feb 2008 |
| Vinoo Mankand + Pankaj Roy (Ind) |
413 |
1st |
New Zealand |
Chennai |
6 Jan 1956 |
| Peter May + Colin Cowdrey (Eng) |
411 |
4th |
West Indies |
Edgbaston |
20 May 1957 |
| Virendra Sehwag + Rahul Dravid (Ind) |
410 |
1st |
Pakistan |
Lahore |
13 Jan 2006 |
| Sydney Barnes + Don Bradman (Aus) |
405 |
5th |
England |
Sydney |
13 Dec 1946 |
| Gary Sobers + Frank Worrell (WI) |
399 |
4th |
England |
Barbados |
6 Jan 1960 |
| Partnership record for 10 different wickets in test cricket. |
| Batsmen (country) |
P'ship |
Wkt |
Versus |
Venue |
Date |
| Neil McKenzie + Graeme Smith (SA) |
415 |
1st |
Bangladesh |
Chittagong |
29 Feb 2008 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya + Roshan Mahanama (SL) |
576 |
2nd |
India |
Colombo |
2 Aug 1997 |
| Kumar Sangakkara + Mahela Jayawardene (SL) |
624 |
3rd |
South Africa |
Colombo |
27 Jul 2006 |
| Mahela Jayawardene + T Samaraweera (SL) |
437 |
4th |
Pakistan |
Karachi |
21 Feb 2009 |
| Sydney Barnes + Don Bradman (Aus) |
405 |
5th |
England |
Sydney |
13 Dec 1946 |
| M Jayawardene + Prasanna Jayawardene (SL) |
351 |
6th |
India |
Ahmedabad |
18 Nov 2009 |
| Denis Atkinson + Clairmonte Depeiaza (WI) |
347 |
7th |
Australia |
Barbados |
14 May 1955 |
| Jonathan Trott + Stuart Broad (Eng) |
332 |
8th |
Pakistan |
Lord's |
26 Aug 2010 |
| Mark Boucher + Pat Symcox (SA) |
195 |
9th |
Pakistan |
Johannesburg |
14 Feb 1998 |
| Brian Hasting + Richard Collinge (NZ) |
151 |
10th |
Pakistan |
Auckland |
16 Feb 1973 |
| Azhar Mahmood + Mushtaq Ahmed (Pak) |
151 |
10th |
South Africa |
Rawalpindi |
6 Oct 1997 |
