Partnerships, specially for opening wicket, can set up the test match for a team very well, like it did for Australians as Bill Lawry and Bob Simpson compiled 382 for the first wickets of that Bridgetown test match back in year 1965.
Both Bill Lawry and Bob Simpson scored double centuries (210 & 201 respectively) and Australia posted a mamoth 650 for 6 wkts declared which still stands as the 4th biggest partnership for opening wicket in test matches but, home team West Indies replied appropriately, scoring 573 thanks to a double century from Seymour Nourse and a century from Rohan Kanhai.
Australians pushed for a win, declared at 175 for 4 in second innings but couldn't force a result.
347 between Denis Atkinson and Clairmonte Depeiaza is the highest partnership by a West Indies pair against Austrlaia in test match cricket. It was remarkable partnership as West Indies were 6 down for 147 runs against a massive 668 made by Australia but Atkinson's double century (219) and century (122) by Clairmonte pushed home team to a solid 510 and saving the test match for their team.
| Highest partnerships, by runs, in Aus v WI test matches. |
| Batsmen (Country) |
Runs |
Wkt |
Venue |
Date |
| Bill Lawry + Bob Simpson
(Aus) |
383 |
1st |
Bridgetown |
5-May-1965 |
| D Atkinson + Clairmonte
Depeiaza (WI) |
347 |
7th |
Bridgetown |
14-May-1955 |
| Bill Lawry + Doug Walters
(Aus) |
336 |
4th |
Sydney |
14-Feb-1969 |
| Brain Lara + Jimmy Adams
(WI) |
322 |
5th |
Kingston |
13-Mar-1999 |
| Ricky Ponting + Derren
Lehmann (Aus) |
315 |
3rd |
Port of Spain |
19-Apr-2003 |
| Richie Richardson +
Vivian Richards (WI) |
308 |
3rd |
St Johns |
7-Apr-1984 |
| Bill Lawry + Ian Chappell
(Aus) |
298 |
2nd |
Melbourne |
26-Dec-1968 |
| Desmond Haynes + R
Richardson (Aus) |
297 |
2nd |
Georgetown |
23-Mar-1991 |
| Neil Harvey + Colin
McDonald (Aus) |
295 |
3rd |
Kingston |
11-Jun-1955 |
| Richie Richardson + Brain
Lara (WI) |
293 |
3rd |
Sydney |
2-Jan-1993 |
| Steve Waugh + Ricky
Ponting (Aus) |
281 |
5th |
Bridgetown |
26-Mar-1999 |
| Graeme Wood + Craig
Serjeant (Aus) |
251 |
4th |
Georgetown |
31-Mar-1978 |
| Desmond Haynes + G
Greenidge (WI) |
250* |
1st |
Georgetown |
2-Mar-1984 |
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| Highest
partnerships, by wkts, in Aus v WI test matches. |
| Batsmen (Country) |
Wkt |
Runs |
Venue |
Date |
| Bill Lawry + Bob Simpson
(Aus) |
1st |
382 |
Bridgetown |
5-May-1965 |
| Bill Lawry + Ian Chappell
(WI) |
2nd |
298 |
Melbourne |
26-Dec-1968 |
| Ricky Ponting + Derren
Lehmann (Aus) |
3rd |
315 |
Port of Spain |
19-Apr-2003 |
| Bill Lawry + Doug Walters
(Aus) |
4th |
336 |
Sydney |
14-Feb-1969 |
| Brain Lara + Jimmy Adams
(WI) |
5th |
322 |
Kingston |
13-Mar-1999 |
| Ron Archer + Keith Miller
(Aus) |
6th |
206 |
Bridgetown |
14-May-1955 |
| D Atkinson + Clairmonte
Depeiaza (WI) |
7th |
347 |
Bridgetown |
14-May-1955 |
| Richie Benaud + Ian
Johnson (WI) |
8th |
137 |
Kingston |
11-Jun-1955 |
| David Halford + Jackie
Handricks (W) |
9th |
122 |
Adelaide |
24-Jan-1969 |
| Tom Hogan + Rodney Hogg
(Aus) |
10th |
97 |
Georgetown |
2-Mar-1984 |
