Brothers-in-Arms: Top 5 partnership pairs by average for India in tests

#4 Mohammad Azharuddin and Sachin Tendulkar – 58.17

Azhar and Sachin scored 2385 runs together in 42 innings

No one can forget the magnificent partnership between the two batsmen for the sixth wicket – a scintillating 222 against South Africa in Cape Town – which was followed by a fourth wicket partnership of 221 runs against Sri Lanka in Colombo in the very next innings a few months later.

Azhar and Sachin scored 2385 runs together in 42 innings at an impressive average of 58.17 with 9 centuries and 5 half-centuries, the best conversion rate from 50 to 100 of all the Indian pairs with more than 2000 runs together.

Apart from their two double century partnerships away from home (to add to one at home), the duo shared another century partnership away from home in Manchester in 1990, a match remembered for Sachin’s maiden Test century, when India almost chased down a target of 408.