Highest partnerships in Tests held in England
Highest partnerships by runs
Partners | Runs | Wickets | Team | Opposition | Ground | Match Date | Scorecard |
WH Ponsford, DG Bradman | 451 | 2nd | Australia | v England | The Oval | 18 Aug 1934 | Test # 237 |
P Roy, MH Mankad | 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 |
WH Ponsford, DG Bradman | 388 | 4th | Australia | v England | Leeds | 20 Jul 1934 | Test # 236 |
M Leyland, L Hutton | 382 | 2nd | England | v Australia | The Oval | 20 Aug 1938 | Test # 266 |
JH Kallis, HM Amla | 377* | 3rd | South Africa | v England | The Oval | 19 Jul 2012 | Test # 2049 |
VVS Laxman, R Dravid | 376 | 5th | India | v Australia | Eden Gardens | 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 | 2 Mar 2013 | Test # 2076 |
JH Edrich, KF Barrington | 369 | 2nd | England | v New Zealand | Leeds | 8 Jul 1965 | Test # 593 |
AM Rahane, V Kohli | 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 |
Z Crawley, JC Buttler | 359 | 5th | England | v Pakistan | Southampton | 21 Aug 2020 | Test # 2393 |
DI Gower, GA Gooch | 351 | 2nd | England | v Australia | The Oval | 29 Aug 1985 | Test # 1022 |
HAPW Jayawardene, DPMD Jayawardene | 351 | 6th | Sri Lanka | v India | Ahmedabad | 16 Nov 2009 | Test # 1933 |
KP Pietersen, IR Bell | 350 | 3rd | England | v India | The Oval | 18 Aug 2011 | Test # 2004 |
DB Vengsarkar, SM Gavaskar | 344* | 2nd | India | v West Indies | Eden Gardens | 29 Dec 1978 | Test # 839 |
JH Kallis, HM Amla | 340 | 3rd | South Africa | v India | Nagpur | 6 Feb 2010 | Test # 1951 |
GC Smith, HH Gibbs | 338 | 1st | South Africa | v England | Birmingham | 24 Jul 2003 | Test # 1651 |
SR Waugh, AR Border | 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 |
MA Taylor, GR Marsh | 329 | 1st | Australia | v England | Nottingham | 10 Aug 1989 | Test # 1125 |
Younis Khan, Inzamam-ul-Haq | 324 | 3rd | Pakistan | v India | Bengaluru | 24 Mar 2005 | Test # 1743 |
Saleem Malik, Javed Miandad | 322 | 4th | Pakistan | v England | Birmingham | 4 Jun 1992 | Test # 1189 |
AD Nourse, A Melville | 319 | 3rd | South Africa | v England | Nottingham | 7 Jun 1947 | Test # 285 |
RG Sharma, MA Agarwal | 317 | 1st | India | v South Africa | Visakhapatnam | 2 Oct 2019 | Test # 2363 |
Yashpal Sharma, GR Viswanath | 316 | 3rd | India | v England | Chennai | 13 Jan 1982 | Test # 918 |
G Gambhir, R Dravid | 314 | 2nd | India | v England | Mohali | 19 Dec 2008 | Test # 1901 |
AJ Lamb, GA Gooch | 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 |
IVA Richards, AI Kallicharran | 303 | 3rd | West Indies | v England | Nottingham | 3 Jun 1976 | Test # 777 |
JL Smith, HC Brook | 303 | 6th | England | v India | Birmingham | 2 Jul 2025 | Test # 2591 |
AR Morris, DG Bradman | 301 | 2nd | Australia | v England | Leeds | 22 Jul 1948 | Test # 302 |
Yuvraj Singh, SC Ganguly | 300 | 5th | India | v Pakistan | Bengaluru | 8 Dec 2007 | Test # 1852 |
DB Vengsarkar, RJ Shastri | 298* | 6th | India | v Australia | Wankhede | 15 Oct 1986 | Test # 1054 |
Zaheer Abbas, Mushtaq Mohammad | 291 | 2nd | Pakistan | v England | Birmingham | 3 Jun 1971 | Test # 687 |
AJ Strauss, RWT Key | 291 | 2nd | England | v West Indies | Lord's | 22 Jul 2004 | Test # 1707 |
G Pullar, MC Cowdrey | 290 | 1st | England | v South Africa | The Oval | 18 Aug 1960 | Test # 496 |
M Vijay, S Dhawan | 289 | 1st | India | v Australia | Mohali | 14 Mar 2013 | Test # 2081 |
GP Thorpe, N Hussain | 288 | 4th | England | v Australia | Birmingham | 5 Jun 1997 | Test # 1368 |
CG Greenidge, HA Gomes | 287* | 2nd | West Indies | v England | Lord's | 28 Jun 1984 | Test # 990 |
KP Pietersen, IR Bell | 286 | 4th | England | v South Africa | Lord's | 10 Jul 2008 | Test # 1880 |
SPD Smith, TM Head | 285 | 4th | Australia | v India | The Oval | 7 Jun 2023 | Test # 2505 |
SPD Smith, CJL Rogers | 284 | 2nd | Australia | v England | Lord's | 16 Jul 2015 | Test # 2171 |
FMM Worrell, ED Weekes | 283 | 4th | West Indies | v England | Nottingham | 20 Jul 1950 | Test # 325 |
M Vijay, V Kohli | 283 | 3rd | India | v Sri Lanka | Delhi | 2 Dec 2017 | Test # 2286 |
SR Tendulkar, SC Ganguly | 281 | 4th | India | v New Zealand | Ahmedabad | 29 Oct 1999 | Test # 1465 |
RG Sharma, R Ashwin | 280 | 7th | India | v West Indies | Eden Gardens | 6 Nov 2013 | Test # 2101 |
VVS Laxman, G Gambhir | 278 | 4th | India | v Australia | Delhi | 29 Oct 2008 | Test # 1891 |
RB McCosker, IM Chappell | 277 | 2nd | Australia | v England | The Oval | 28 Aug 1975 | Test # 763 |
GS Sobers, DAJ Holford | 274* | 6th | West Indies | v England | Lord's | 16 Jun 1966 | Test # 606 |
N Kapil Dev, M Azharuddin | 272 | 6th | India | v Sri Lanka | Kanpur | 17 Dec 1986 | Test # 1061 |
JE Root, JM Bairstow | 269* | 4th | England | v India | Birmingham | 1 Jul 2022 | Test # 2470 |
H Sutcliffe, JB Hobbs | 268 | 1st | England | v South Africa | Lord's | 28 Jun 1924 | Test # 154 |
RT Ponting, MTG Elliott | 268 | 5th | Australia | v England | Leeds | 24 Jul 1997 | Test # 1373 |
ME Trescothick, GP Thorpe | 268 | 3rd | England | v South Africa | The Oval | 4 Sep 2003 | Test # 1659 |
V Sehwag, R Dravid | 268 | 2nd | India | v South Africa | Chennai | 26 Mar 2008 | Test # 1870 |
CL Walcott, GE Gomez | 267 | 4th | West Indies | v India | Delhi | 10 Nov 1948 | Test # 304 |
MP Vaughan, GP Thorpe | 267 | 3rd | England | v Pakistan | Manchester | 31 May 2001 | Test # 1547 |
RG Sharma, AM Rahane | 267 | 4th | India | v South Africa | Ranchi | 19 Oct 2019 | Test # 2365 |
TS Worthington, WR Hammond | 266 | 4th | England | v India | The Oval | 15 Aug 1936 | Test # 254 |
PE Richardson, TW Graveney | 266 | 2nd | England | v West Indies | Nottingham | 4 Jul 1957 | Test # 441 |
GS Sobers, SM Nurse | 265 | 5th | West Indies | v England | Leeds | 4 Aug 1966 | Test # 608 |
L Hutton, WR Hammond | 264 | 3rd | England | v West Indies | The Oval | 19 Aug 1939 | Test # 274 |
GA Gooch, MA Atherton | 263 | 2nd | England | v New Zealand | Nottingham | 2 Jun 1994 | Test # 1260 |
MA Taylor, MJ Slater | 260 | 1st | Australia | v England | Lord's | 17 Jun 1993 | Test # 1224 |
BA Stokes, DP Sibley | 260 | 4th | England | v West Indies | Manchester | 16 Jul 2020 | Test # 2389 |
VVS Laxman, MS Dhoni | 259* | 7th | India | v South Africa | Eden Gardens | 14 Feb 2010 | Test # 1952 |
GC Smith, HM Amla | 259 | 2nd | South Africa | v England | The Oval | 19 Jul 2012 | Test # 2049 |
JE Root, AN Cook | 259 | 3rd | England | v India | The Oval | 7 Sep 2018 | Test # 2318 |
GC Smith, G Kirsten | 257 | 2nd | South Africa | v England | Lord's | 31 Jul 2003 | Test # 1653 |
SR Tendulkar, SC Ganguly | 256 | 4th | India | v Sri Lanka | Wankhede | 3 Dec 1997 | Test # 1390 |
JH Kallis, AB de Villiers | 256 | 5th | South Africa | v India | Ahmedabad | 3 Apr 2008 | Test # 1871 |
SR Tendulkar, SC Ganguly | 255 | 3rd | India | v England | Nottingham | 4 Jul 1996 | Test # 1329 |
MP Vaughan, ME Trescothick | 255 | 2nd | England | v Bangladesh | Lord's | 26 May 2005 | Test # 1751 |
AW Greig, KWR Fletcher | 254 | 5th | England | v India | Brabourne | 6 Feb 1973 | Test # 711 |
BL D'Oliveira, G Boycott | 252 | 4th | England | v India | Leeds | 8 Jun 1967 | Test # 618 |
OJ Pope, BM Duckett | 252 | 2nd | England | v Ireland | Lord's | 1 Jun 2023 | Test # 2504 |
IJL Trott, AN Cook | 251 | 3rd | England | v Sri Lanka | Cardiff | 26 May 2011 | Test # 1994 |
DL Murray, CH Lloyd | 250 | 6th | West Indies | v India | Wankhede | 23 Jan 1975 | Test # 753 |
PJ Sharpe, JH Edrich | 249 | 2nd | England | v New Zealand | Nottingham | 7 Aug 1969 | Test # 657 |
SR Tendulkar, R Dravid | 249 | 3rd | India | v Zimbabwe | Nagpur | 25 Nov 2000 | Test # 1517 |
SR Tendulkar, SC Ganguly | 249 | 4th | India | v England | Leeds | 22 Aug 2002 | Test # 1613 |
SR Tendulkar, V Sehwag | 249 | 3rd | India | v South Africa | Eden Gardens | 14 Feb 2010 | Test # 1952 |
L Hutton, DCS Compton | 248 | 4th | England | v West Indies | Lord's | 24 Jun 1939 | Test # 272 |
ER Dexter, MC Cowdrey | 248 | 2nd | England | v Pakistan | The Oval | 16 Aug 1962 | Test # 534 |
JE Root, AN Cook | 248 | 3rd | England | v West Indies | Birmingham | 17 Aug 2017 | Test # 2270 |
LEG Ames, GOB Allen | 246 | 8th | England | v New Zealand | Lord's | 27 Jun 1931 | Test # 209 |
Saeed Ahmed, Hanif Mohammad | 246 | 2nd | Pakistan | v India | Brabourne | 2 Dec 1960 | Test # 497 |
ER Dexter, KF Barrington | 246 | 3rd | England | v Australia | Manchester | 23 Jul 1964 | Test # 564 |
SD Hope, KC Brathwaite | 246 | 4th | West Indies | v England | Leeds | 25 Aug 2017 | Test # 2271 |
RES Wyatt, FE Woolley | 245 | 3rd | England | v South Africa | Manchester | 27 Jul 1929 | Test # 184 |
J Hardstaff, WR Hammond | 245 | 3rd | England | v New Zealand | Lord's | 26 Jun 1937 | Test # 260 |
A Jackson, DG Bradman | 243 | 4th | Australia | v England | The Oval | 16 Aug 1930 | Test # 198 |
ST Jayasuriya, PA de Silva | 243 | 3rd | Sri Lanka | v England | The Oval | 27 Aug 1998 | Test # 1423 |
C Kelleway, W Bardsley | 242 | 3rd | Australia | v South Africa | Lord's | 15 Jul 1912 | Test # 125 |
MW Gatting, G Fowler | 241 | 2nd | England | v India | Chennai | 13 Jan 1985 | Test # 1008 |
J Yadav, V Kohli | 241 | 8th | India | v England | Wankhede | 8 Dec 2016 | Test # 2239 |
J Overton, JM Bairstow | 241 | 7th | England | v New Zealand | Leeds | 23 Jun 2022 | Test # 2467 |
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