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

Dixit Bhargav | 24/02/2023
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
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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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