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Highest BBL partnership: Full list of highest batting partnerships in Big Bash League

Dixit Bhargav
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Highest BBL partnership: Full list of highest batting partnerships in Big Bash League

Highest BBL partnership: Batters from Melbourne Stars registered the joint 10th-highest partnership in the Big Bash League today.

During the 23rd match of the ongoing 11th season of the Big Bash League between Brisbane Heat and Melbourne Stars in Brisbane, Melbourne Stars wicket-keeper batter Joe Clarke and batter Hilton Cartwright scored individual half-centuries to power the team to 207/9 in 20 overs.

After Brisbane Heat captain Jimmy Peirson won the toss and chose to field, bowlers of the home team reduced Stars to 16/3 in the third over as Marcus Stoinis (0), Joe Burns (2) and Glenn Maxwell (2) were dismissed cheaply inside the powerplay.

It was at this point in time that Clarke and Cartwright put together a game-changing 73-ball 151-run partnership for the fourth wicket which included some eye-catching boundaries to all parts of the Gabba.

Opening the batting with Stoinis, Clarke top-scored for Stars with his 85 (44) comprising of seven fours and five sixes. In what was Clarke’s maiden half-century for Melbourne, it was his second in the BBL and 14th in this format.

Cartwright, on the other hand, was the one who kick-started muscling enormous sixes to his as many as eight of them in his 79 (44). While it was the 29-year old batter’s seventh T20 half-century, it was sixth in the BBL and third for the Stars. Readers must note that Cartwright has been part of some of the biggest BBL partnerships in the past as well.

It is worth mentioning that Clarke and Cartwright’s partnership is the highest-ever fourth-wicket partnership in the BBL. Additionally, the pair has equaled former Hobart Hurricanes-pair of Ben McDermott and George Bailey’s 151-run partnership against Melbourne Renegades four years ago to register the joint 10th-highest partnership in the tournament.

Highest BBL partnership (updated on January 21, 2023)

S. No.BattersRunsWicketTeamOppositionGroundYear
1Marcus Stoinis & Hilton Cartwright2071stMelbourne StarsSydney SixersMelbourne Cricket Ground2020
2Matthew Wade & D’Arcy Short2031stHobart HurricanesAdelaide StrikersAdelaide Oval2020
3Rob Quiney & Luke Wright1721stMelbourne StarsHobart HurricanesBellerive Oval2012
4Shaun Marsh & Michael Klinger171*1stPerth ScorchersMelbourne RenegadesDocklands Stadium2015
5Alex Carey & Jake Weatherald1711stAdelaide StrikersHobart HurricanesAdelaide Oval2018
6Josh Philippe & James Vince167*2ndSydney SixersHobart HurricanesSydney Cricket Ground2019
7Michael Hussey & Jacques Kallis1601stSydney ThunderBrisbane HeatANZ Stadium2014
8Matthew Wade & D’Arcy Short158*1stHobart HurricanesAdelaide StrikersAdelaide Oval2019
9Max Bryant & Ben Cutting158*1stBrisbane HeatMelboune StarsGabba2019
10Steven Smith & Moises Henriques155*3rdSydney SixersSydney ThunderSydney Cricket Ground2023

Highest partnership in the BBL (by wickets)

WicketBattersRunsTeamOppositionGroundYear
1Marcus Stoinis & Hilton Cartwright207Melbourne StarsSydney SixersMCG2020
2Josh Philippe & James Vince167*Sydney SixersHobart HurricanesSydney Cricket Ground2019
3Steven Smith & Moises Henriques155*Sydney SixersSydney ThunderSydney Cricket Ground2017
4Joe Clarke & Hilton Cartwright151Melbourne StarsBrisbane HeatGabba2021
5Cameron Bancroft & Hilton Cartwright137*Perth ScorchersSydney ThunderSydney Showground Stadium2018
5Marcus Stoinis & James Faulkner137Melbourne StarsBrisbane HeatGabba2017
6Mohammad Nabi & Daniel Christian94*Melbourne RenegadesAdelaide StrikersAdelaide Oval2018
7Tom Curran & Sean Abbott88Sydney SixersSydney ThunderSydney Showground Stadium2018
8Xavier Bartlett & Mark Steketee79Brisbane HeatSydney ThunderGabba2021
9Jimmy Peirson & Mujeeb Ur Rahman60Brisbane HeatAdelaide StrikersGabba2020
10Daniel Worrall & Danny Briggs61*Adelaide StrikersHobart HurricanesBellerive Oval2020

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Dixit Bhargav

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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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