Published: Jun 09, 2015, 10:46 PM (IST)
Edited: Jun 10, 2015, 12:59 AM (IST)
England were 202 for 6 after 30 overs in the first One-Day International (ODI) against New Zealand at Edgbaston when Adil Rashid walked out to join Jos Buttler. The pair set off cautiously before adding a whopping 56 in the Batting Powerplay. They carried on with the onslaught, adding 177 from a mere 105 balls as England finished off at a record 408 for nine.
In the process they set a new world record for the seventh wicket stand, going past 130 added by Andy Flower and Heath Streak against England at Harare, 2001-02. Zimbabwe had been reduced to 127 for 6 before Flower and Streak took them to 257.
Highest seventh-wicket stands in ODIs:
|
Stand |
Batsmen |
Against |
Venue |
Year |
|
177 |
Jos Buttler, Adil Rashid |
New Zealand |
Edgbaston |
2015 |
|
130 |
Andy Flower, Heath Streak |
England |
Harare |
2001 |
|
126* |
Mahela Jayawardene, Upul Chandana |
India |
Dambulla |
2005 |
|
125* |
MS Dhoni, Ravichandran Ashwin |
Pakistan |
Chepauk |
2012 |
|
124 |
Mohammad Yousuf, Rashid Latif |
Australia |
Cardiff |
2001 TRENDING NOW |
Buttler and Rashid broke quite a few seventh-wicket stand records: the previous best for England was 110 between Paul Collingwood and Craig White, against Sri Lanka at WACA in 2002-03; the previous best against New Zealand was 110 between Haris Sohail and Shahid Afridi at Abu Dhabi earlier this year; the previous best on English soil was 124 between Mohammad Yousuf and Rashid Latif (mentioned in the table above).
