Cricket Best Moment: First Time in Test Cricket History, Two Last Wickets Stands Put up on Century Partnerships

Saturday 12 July 2014

First Time in Test Cricket History, Two Last Wickets Stands Put up on Century Partnerships

India tour of England, 1st Investec Test: England v India at Nottingham, Jul 9-13, 2014

Pataudi Trophy - 1st Investec Test

Test no. 2128 | 2014 season

Played at Trent Bridge, Nottingham

9,10,11,12,13 July 2014 (5-day match)

This is first time in Test Cricket history, two last wickets has seen put on century partnerships. England started day 4 trailing by 105 with just one wicket remaining. Joe Root and James Anderson stretched their partnership to 198, a Test record for the 10th wicket. Jimmy Anderson who made his first Test Fifty was on full form with Joe Root on a three-figure score before he went after a full and wide ball from Bhuvneshwar Kumar and edged it to the wicketkeeper MS Dhoni. This was Bhuvneshwar Kumar fifth wicket, but it came too much later than he may have expected after he had taken England's eighth and ninth wickets yesterday evening. Root, who had hardly put a foot wrong since walking in early in yesterday's middle session, was unbeaten on 154.

In the first inning Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Muhammad Shami faced 229 balls and beaten all expectations with a stand of 111 runs, the second-highest partnership for the 10th wicket by any Indian pair., the most by a final-wicket pair in England and the only instance when a 10th wicket pair had played more than 200 balls at Trent Bridge. They hold India's record for the most balls faced by the final-wicket pair and are fourth-highest overall. It was the second time the last two batsmen have added more than 100 run at Nottingham. In terms of balls played, the last three 10th wicket partnerships at Trent Bridge have been the three longest at this ground. Even in terms of runs scored, the last two Tests at this ground have now seen the two best 10th wicket stands. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Muhammad Shami recorded the 3rd instance of Indian batsmen from no.9 or below scoring half-centuries.