Tendulkar, Dravid set new World Record
Monday - Jan 25, 2010, 05:56pm (GMT+5.5)
 Bangalore, Mon, Jan 25 2010 (CricBuzz) - Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid yet again dominated the proceedings for India as they went on to create a new world record of registering the most number of century partnerships in Test cricket. The duo were involved in their 17th century stand, putting them one ahead of Mathew Hayden and Ricky Ponting and Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes, who have 16 hundred-run stands each.
Below is the list of most century partnerships:
| Players |
Inns |
100 |
50 |
| Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar |
117 |
17 |
22 |
| Matthew Hayden, Ricky Ponting |
76 |
16 |
22 |
| Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes |
148 |
16 |
26 |
| Jack Hobbs, H Sutcliffe |
39 |
15 |
11 |
| Justin Langer, Ricky Ponting |
48 |
14 |
12 |
| Matthew Hayden, Justin Langer |
122 |
14 |
28 |
| Brian Lara, Ramnaresh Sarwan |
58 |
12 |
8 |
| Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar |
71 |
12 |
16 |
| David Boon, Mark Waugh |
37 |
11 |
6 |
| Aravinda de Silva, Arjuna Ranatunga |
57 |
11 |
11 |
In terms of most runs scored between a pair in Test cricket, Tendulkar and Dravid are placed third, behind Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes and Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer. The Indian pair have scored a total of 5874 runs, 608 runs behind Greenidge and Haynes who top the chart.
Here is the list of highest overall partnership runs by a pair:
| Players |
Inns |
Runs |
High |
Ave |
| Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes |
148 |
6482 |
298 |
47.31 |
| Matthew Hayden, Justin Langer |
122 |
6081 |
255 |
51.53 |
| Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar |
117 |
5874 |
249 |
52.44 |
| Matthew Hayden, Ricky Ponting |
76 |
4765 |
272 |
67.11 |
| Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara |
75 |
4605 |
624 |
63.95 |
| Marvan Atapattu, Sanath Jayasuriya |
122 |
4533 |
335 |
39.41 |
| Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar |
71 |
4173 |
281 |
61.36 |
| Michael Slater, Mark Taylor |
78 |
3887 |
260 |
51.14 |
| Michael Atherton, Alec Stewart |
89 |
3687 |
226 |
42.87 |
| Desmond Haynes, Richie Richardson |
77 |
3650 |
297 |
52.14 |
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