West Indies' Tino Best (L) jumps over the wickets after taking a single during the fourth day of the third Test match between England and West Indies at Edgbaston in Birmingham. © AFP Andrew Yates
BIRMINGHAM, England – West Indies’ Denesh Ramdin and Tino Best put on 143 for the 10th wicket in the third Test against England at Edgbaston here on Sunday.
It was the third highest stand for the last wicket in Test history.
The 10 highest last-wicket Test partnerships are as follows (partners, runs, team, opponents, date):
Brian Hastings/Richard Collinge 151 NZL v PAK, Auckland, 1973
Azhar Mahmood/Mushtaq Ahmed 151 PAK v RSA, Rawalpindi, 1997
Wasim Raja/Wasim Bari 133 PAK v WIS, Bridgetown, 1977
Sachin Tendulkar/Zaheer Khan 133 IND v BAN, Dhaka, 2004
Tip Foster/Wilfred Rhodes 130 ENG v AUS, Sydney, 1903
Ken Higgs/John Snow 128 ENG v WIS, The Oval, 1966
John Taylor/Arthur Mailey 127 AUS v ENG, Sydney, 1924
John Bracewell/Stephen Boock 124 NZL v AUS, Sydney, 1985
Reggie Duff/Warwick Armstrong 120 AUS v ENG, Melbourne, 1902
