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.

Top 10 8th Wicket Partnerships in Test Match

1. 332 Runs - Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad (England) against Pakistan at Lord’s on 26/08/2010
2. 313 Runs - Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq (Pakistan) against Zimbabwe at Sheikhupura on 17/10/1996
3. 256 Runs - Stephen Fleming and James Franklin (New Zealand) against South Africa at Cape Town on 27/04/2006
4. 253 Runs - Nathan Astle and Adam Parore (New Zealand) against Australia at Perth on 30/11/2001
5. 246 Runs - Gubby Allen and Leslie George Ames (England) against New Zealand at Lord’s on 27/06/1931
6. 243 Runs - Michael Joseph Hartigan & Clem Hill (Australia) against England at Adelaide on 10/01/1908
7. 241 Runs - Virat Kohli and Jayant Yadav (India) verses England at Mumbai on 08/12/2016
8. 217 Runs - Tom Graveney and John Murray (England) against West Indies at The Oval on 18/08/1966
9. 212 Runs - Shane Dowrich and Jason Holder (West Indies) vs Zimbabwe at Bulawayo on 29/10/2017
10. 173 Runs - Clarence Pellew and Jack Gregory (Australia) against England at Melbourne on 31/12/1920
11. 170 Runs - Mahela Jayawardene and Chaminda Vaas (Sri Lanka) against South Africa at Galle on 04/08/2004
12. 168 Runs - Ray Illingworth and Peter Lever (England) against India at Manchester on 05/08/1971