Highest Ranji Trophy partnership: Full list of highest partnerships in first-class cricket

Highest Ranji Trophy partnership: Bihar’s middle-order batters put on display the fourth-highest partnership in Ranji Trophy yesterday.

A Plate Group match of the ongoing first round of Ranji Trophy between Bihar and Mizoram in Kolkata found a place in the record books on the back of a formidable batting performance by Bihar.

Captain Ashutosh Aman’s decision of batting first after winning the toss reaped fruits for Bihar after they posted a giant total of 686/5 dec. in 159.4 overs.

Having already scored individual centuries on Day 1, Babul Kumar and Sakibul Gani made it a point to convert their innings into double and triple centuries respectively. In what was Kumar’s third first-class century, he surpassed his previous career-best of 195 (vs Sikkim in Cuttack) to score 228* (398) with the help of 27 fours and a six.

However, it was 22-year old Gani who not just dominated Mizoram’s bowlers but also the news across the globe post his heroic knock. Gani, who became the first-ever player to score a triple century on first-class debut, ended up with a magnificent 341 (405) with the help of 56 fours and two sixes.

Kumar and Gani, who joined hands to put together a 538-run partnership for the fourth wicket, were successful in registering the 11th-highest partnership for any wicket in first-class cricket, third-highest fourth-wicket partnership in first-class cricket and the fourth-highest partnership in Ranji Trophy.

As far as the Ranji Trophy is concerned, Kumar and Gani have snatched the fourth position from Saurashtra’s Cheteshawar Pujara and Ravindra Jadeja, who had put together a 520-run partnership for the fifth wicket against Odisha in Rajkot in 2008.

Highest Ranji Trophy partnership

Runs	Wicket	Batters	Team	Opposition	Ground	Season
594*	2nd	Swapnil Gugale & Ankit Bawne	Maharashtra	Delhi	Mumbai	2016/17
577	4th	Vijay Hazare & Gul Mahomed	Baroda	Holkar	Baroda	1946/47
539	3rd	Sagar Jogiyani & Ravindra Jadeja	Saurashtra	Gujarat	Surat	2012/13
538	4th	Babul Kumar & Sakibul Gani	Bihar	Mizroram	Kolkata	2021/22
520*	5th	Cheteshwar Pujara & Ravindra Jadeja	Saurashtra	Odisha	Rajkot	2008/09

Full list of highest partnerships in first-class cricket

Runs	Wicket	Batters	Team	Opposition	Ground	Season
624	3rd	Kumar Sangakkara & Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	South Africa	Colombo	2006
594*	2nd	Swapnil Gugale & Ankit Bawne	Maharashtra	Delhi	Mumbai	2016/17
580	2nd	Rafatullah Mohamand & Aamer Sajad	Sui Sthn Gas	WAPDA	Sheikhupura	2009/10
577	4th	Vijay Hazare & Gul Mahomed	Baroda	Holkar	Baroda	1946/47
576	2nd	Sanath Jayasuriya & Roshan Mahanama	Sri Lanka	India	Colombo	1997/98
574*	4th	Clyde Walcott & Frank Worrell	Barbados	Trinidad	Port of Spain	1945/46
561	1st	Waheed Mirza & Mansoor Akhtar	Karachi Whites	Quetta	Karachi	1976/77
555	1st	Percy Holmes & Herbert Sutcliffe	Yorkshire	Essex	Leyton	1932
554	1st	JT Brown & J Tunnicliffe	Yorkshire	Derbyshire	Chesterfield	1998
539	3rd	Sagar Jogiyani & Ravindra Jadeja	Saurashtra	Gujarat	Surat	2012/13

Highest 4th wicket partnership in first-class cricket

Runs	Batters	Team	Opposition	Ground	Season
577	Vijay Hazare & Gul Mahomed	Baroda	Holkar	Baroda	1946/47
574*	Clyde Walcott & Frank Worrell	Barbados	Trinidad	Port of Spain	1945/46
538	Babul Kumar & Sakibul Gani	Bihar	Mizroram	Kolkata	2021/22
502*	F Worrell & J Goddard	Barbados	Trinidad	Bridgetown	1943/44
470	A Kallicharran & G Humpage	Warwickshire	Lancashire	Southport	1942