Your favourite partnerships

[Top_Cat]

Seriously, not that they probably ever put on any massive stands, I used to love it when Slater and Blewett opened together - my two favourite players at the time.

This one was a big'un (269);

http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1999-2000/PAK_IN_AUS/SCORECARDS/PAK_AUS_T1_05-09NOV1999.html

Not that I'm a huge fan of both of them or anything (anyone who knows me would know I'm lying through my teeth right now.....)

 

[Mister Wright]

This one was a big'un (269);

http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1999-2000/PAK_IN_AUS/SCORECARDS/PAK_AUS_T1_05-09NOV1999.html

Not that I'm a huge fan of both of them or anything (anyone who knows me would know I'm lying through my teeth right now.....)

That wasn't a great partnership by any means. Blewett was so boring it wasn't funny, far from his fluent self and Slater was dropped about 5 times.

 

[honestbharani]

Laxman Dravid at the Eden. Simply can't go past that. Very tough for me to imagine a partnership under tougher conditions, given that the tail started at no. 7 for India.

 

[NZTailender]

Parore and Astle, Perth 2001.

Yep, one of my favourites too. Just ahead of Fleming and Vincent in the same match

 

[Chubb]

Grant and Andy Flower's 269 to set up Zimbabwe's first test win against Pakistan, Harare, 1994. Andy was in blistering touch, Grant complemented him by being very attritional. Perhaps Zimbabwe's first world-class test performance, and the highest by brothers in test cricket.

Tresco and Strauss in Durban were pretty amazing too, although the pitch had flattened out. Atherton and Russell when Athers got the 185 to save the test.

 

[SpeedKing]

1. Has to be Laxman and Dravid - Ridiculous Flair from Laxman and mind-numbing correctness from Dravid

2. Gerraint Jones and Flintoff [2 of them - One against Aussies and one against West indies]- Absolute back foot mastery. Everything short in these two partnerships must have gone for a minimum of 4-runs.

3. Thorpe and Giles against New Zealand in 2004. Thorpe masterfully sheperding best, guiding England to victory with a little help from the King of Spain.

4. I hated it but the Aussies must have loved it Brett Lee and Micheal Kasprowizc, nearly completing absolute daylight robberry at Edgebaston.

5. Inzaman ul-Haq and Kamran Akmal against England in the third test in 2005. So commanding that even Andrew Flintoff gave up trying to get a wicket.

 

[howardj]

1. Has to be Laxman and Dravid - Ridiculous Flair from Laxman and mind-numbing correctness from Dravid

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For sure, man. Not to mention the state of the game, and the quality of the bowling attack. It was an outrageous partnership.

 

[Mister Wright]

For sure, man. Not to mention the state of the game, and the quality of the bowling attack. It was an outrageous partnership.

And, as far as I can remember chanceless. It was a runout that ended it.

 

[Tony Blade]

5. Inzaman ul-Haq and Kamran Akmal against England in the third test in 2005. So commanding that even Andrew Flintoff gave up trying to get a wicket.

Think it was Muhammad Yousaf and Akmal who had a huge partnership that match

 

[Top_Cat]

That wasn't a great partnership by any means. Blewett was so boring it wasn't funny, far from his fluent self and Slater was dropped about 5 times.

How is that relevant? Jack just said they didn't have any big partnerships and there was the biggest one they had. No-one said anything about the quality of it.

 

[Mister Wright]

How is that relevant? Jack just said they didn't have any big partnerships and there was the biggest one they had. No-one said anything about the quality of it.

Yes, someone did, I did.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Richard, is that you?