Published: Feb 17, 2014, 12:20 PM (IST)
Edited: Feb 17, 2014, 05:08 PM (IST)
Brendon McCullum became the first New Zealand batsman to have been involved in a 300-run partnership and another 100-run partnership in the same innings. Abhishek Mukherjee provides a list of all other batsmen to have achieved this feat.
When BJ Watling had finally fallen to Mohammed Shami after the Test-saving partnership of 352 Indian supporters would have thought that they stood with a chance of victory. However, Brendon McCullum added another unbeaten 105 with James Neesham to a position where they have as good as saved the series.
In the process McCullum became the first New Zealand batsman to have been involved in a 300-run and a 100-run partnership in the same innings. So, who are the batsmen who have achieved the same? Let us have a look.
| Main batsman |
First partnership (with) |
Second partnership (with) |
Third partnership, if any, (with) |
Against | At |
Season |
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| Wilfred Rhodes |
323 |
Jack Hobbs |
102 |
George Gunn | Australia | MCG |
1911-12 |
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| Len Hutton |
382 |
Maurice Leyland |
135 |
Wally Hammond |
215 |
Joe Hardstaff jr | Australia | The Oval |
1938 |
| Garry Sobers |
446 |
Conrad Hunte |
188* |
Clyde Walcott | Pakistan | Sabina Park |
1957-58 |
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| Bill Lawry |
382 |
Bobby Simpson |
140 |
Bob Cowper | West Indies | Kensington Oval |
1965 |
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| John Edrich |
369 |
Ken Barrington |
109 |
Peter Parfitt | New Zealand | Headingley |
1965 |
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| Mark Taylor |
329 |
Geoff Marsh |
101 |
David Boon | England | Trent Bridge |
1989 |
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| Graham Gooch |
127 |
Mike Atherton |
308 |
Allan Lamb |
192 |
Robin Smith | India | Lord’s |
1990 |
| Allan Border |
105 |
David Boon |
332* |
Steve Waugh | England | Headingley |
1993 |
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| Herschelle Gibbs |
127 |
Gary Kirsten |
315* |
Jacques Kallis | New Zealand | Christchurch |
1998-99 |
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| VVS Laxman |
117 |
Sourav Ganguly |
376 |
Rahul Dravid | Australia | Eden Gardens |
2000-01 |
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| Ricky Ponting |
315 |
Darren Lehmann |
171 |
Adam Gilchrist | West Indies | Queen’s Park Oval |
2003 |
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| Graeme Smith |
338 |
Herschelle Gibbs |
100 |
Gary Kirsten | England | Edgbaston |
2003 |
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| Sachin Tendulkar |
363 |
VVS Laxman |
101 |
Parthiv Patel | Australia | SCG |
2003-04 |
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| Virender Sehwag |
160 |
Aakash Chopra |
336 |
Sachin Tendulkar | Pakistan | Multan |
2003-04 |
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| Sachin Tendulkar |
336 |
Virender Sehwag |
110 |
Yuvraj Singh | Pakistan | Multan |
2003-04 |
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| Marvan Atapattu |
100 |
Sanath Jayasuriya |
438 |
Kumar Sangakkara | Zimbabwe | Bulawayo |
2004 |
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| Chris Gayle |
331 |
Ramnaresh Sarwan |
149 |
Shivnarine Chanderpaul | South Africa | St John’s |
2005 |
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| Paul Collingwood |
113 |
Ian Bell |
310 |
Kevin Pietersen | Australia | Adelaide Oval |
2006-07 |
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| Sourav Ganguly |
300 |
Yuvraj Singh |
178 |
Irfan Pathan | Pakistan | Chinnaswamy |
2007-08 |
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| Mahela Jayawardene |
138 |
Kumar Sangakkara |
351 |
Prasanna Jayawardene | India | Motera |
2009-10 |
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| Hashim Amla |
340 |
Jacques Kallis |
108 |
AB de Villiers | India | Nagpur |
2009-10 |
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| Alastair Cook |
188 |
Andrew Strauss |
329* |
Jonathan Trott | Australia | The Gabba |
2010-11 |
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| Michael Clarke |
288 |
Ricky Ponting |
334* |
Michael Hussey | India | SCG |
2011-12 |
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| Hashim Amla |
259 |
Graeme Smith |
337* |
Jacques Kallis | England | The Oval |
2012 |
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| Brendon McCullum |
352 |
BJ Watling |
105* |
James Neesham | India | Basin Reserve |
2013-14 |
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Hutton and Gooch are the only ones to be involved in a 300-run and two 100-run partnerships in the same innings |
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Sehwag and Tendulkar are the only ones to have achieved the feat in the same innings (against Pakistan, Multan 2003-04) |
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Sobers and Atapattu are the only ones to be involved in a 400-run and 100-run partnership in the same innings |
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Clarke and Amla are the only ones to be involved in a 300-run and a 200-run partnership in the same innings |
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(Abhishek Mukherjee is the Deputy Editor and Cricket Historian at CricketCountry. He blogs at http://ovshake.blogspot.in and can be followed on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ovshake42)
