Highest aggregate partnerships for each wicket in Test cricket

Seventh wicket

Shaun Pollock and wicketkeeper Mark Boucher appealing in unison

The batsmen have returned and it is all up to the wicketkeeper and the bowlers now. The seventh-wicket partnership mostly takes place between the keeper and best batsman among the bowlers. Interestingly, there have been two triple-century stands for the seventh wicket, both occurred in 1955.

The leaders in the aggregate runs for the seventh wicket are the South African duo of Mark Boucher and Shaun Pollock. The doughty keeper and the tall all-rounder added 912 runs in 28 innings. They maintained a healthy average of 33.77 and stitched one century and four fifty stands together. Brendon McCullum and Daniel Vettori scored 793 runs together in 19 outings for the seventh wicket.

Eighth wicket

Adam Gilchrist and Brett Lee

In 2010, Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad raised an unbelievable partnership of 332 runs for the eighth wicket against Pakistan at the Lord’s. While it remains a tremendous feat, the aggregate numbers point to the Australian superiority once again.

In the span of six years from 2000 to 2006, Adam Gilchrist and Brett Lee batted together for 17 innings and added 458 runs for the eighth wicket. The duo celebrated a century partnership (135 runs) as well. The deadly combination of Saqlain Mushtaq and Wasim Akram appears at the second spot with 405 runs in nine attempts.