Highest 8th Wicket Partnership in Test

The 8^th wicket partnership has its own importance in test cricket. It becomes extremely crucial when a team needs to save the match or to win it in style. Over the last two decades, only two times a batting pair successfully put plus three hundred runs stand for the 8^th wicket. The first ever triple century partnership for the 8^th wicket came in the year 1996 when Pakistani duo of Saqlain Mushtaq and Wasim Akram built a massive 313 run against Zimbabwe in 1996. This stayed as world record for the next 14 years before the English pair Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad struck a world record 332-run for the 8^th wicket against Pakistan in 2010.

Believe it or not, despite so many all-rounders and solid lower middle order batsmen, only three times batsmen could score more than 165 for this wicket in test matches in the last two decades. Broad and Trott’s partnership was the last time a team managed to put such a gigantic partnership for this wicket. But in the last 6 years not even 200 runs have been recorded for this wicket. Stephen Fleming and James Franklin added 256 runs for the 8^th wicket in 2006, which comes third in the list of highest partnership for this wicket. This was the last time; a Kiwi pair could reach double century mark partnership for 8^th wicket in test matches.

Interestingly, India has finally featured in this list of top 10 highest partnerships for the 8^th wicket.

Highest 8th Wicket Partnerships in Test Match