Highest 4th wicket partnership in Test cricket: Highest partnership in Test for 4th wicket full list

England batters Joe Root (101*) and Harry Brook (184*) scored individual centuries to not only bail the team out of trouble but also put it in a commanding position on the first day of the second Test match against New Zealand at the Basin Reserve today.

Root’s 29th and Brook’s fourth Test century played a pivotal role in England scoring 315/3 in 65 overs before the inclement weather conditions justified the forecast for the day.

As things stand, Root and Brook’s game-changing 294-run fourth-wicket partnership is already the third-highest among English batters and 21st overall in the list of highest Test fourth-wicket partnerships. Additionally, as far as all-wicket partnerships are concerned, it is the 16th highest Test partnership for English batters, ninth-highest Test partnership in New Zealand and fifth-highest at this stadium.

Another six runs on Day 2 will make both these right-handed batters as the 20th pair to touch the 300-run mark for the fourth wicket in this format. If Root and Brook manage to touch the 350-run mark as a pair, expect them to enter the Top 10 of the below mentioned table. Topping the list among English batters, however, will require them to score another 118 runs tomorrow.

A challenge which isn’t impossible by any means will surely witness them achieving records outside of partnerships as well. Brook, in particular, is also in touching distance of scoring one of the fastest Test double centuries and becoming the fastest batter to score 1,000 Test runs.

“[Joe Root] was more excited about me getting my hundred than I was. [favourite shot] Hitting [Matt] Henry back over his head. We were the perfect partnership, he struggled early on, but later was the Joe Root we all know,” Brook told BT Sport after Stumps, Day 1.

Highest 4th wicket partnership in Test cricket full list

Runs	Batters	Team	Opposition	Venue	Year
449	Adam Voges & Shaun Marsh	Australia	West Indies	Bellerive Oval	2015
437	Mahela Jayawardene & Thilan Samaraweera	Sri Lanka	Pakistan	National Stadium	2009
411	Peter May & Colin Cowdrey	England	West Indies	Edgbaston	1957
399	Garry Sobers & Frank Worrell	West Indies	England	Kensington Oval	1960
388	Bill Ponsford & Donald Bradman	Australia	England	Headingley	1934

Highest partnership in Test for 4th wicket among English batters

Runs	Batters	Opposition	Venue	Year
411	Peter May & Colin Cowdrey	West Indies	Edgbaston	1957
310	Paul Collingwood & Kevin Pietersen	Australia	Adelaide Oval	2006
294*	Joe Root & Harry Brook	New Zealand	Basin Reserve	2023
288	Nasser Hussain & Graham Thorpe	Australia	Edgbaston	1997
286	Kevin Pietersen & Ian Bell	South Africa	Lord’s	2008