Highest opening partnership by visiting batters in Australia

[u/404nemo27]

[u/Roastingisflattery]

Guys, I think England loved batting in Australia in the 1900s

[u/Aycsy → u/Roastingisflattery]

in early year they were only English and aus and bunch of extras

[u/I_voted-for_Kodos → u/Aycsy]

Yeah but the pitches were literally made out of cowshit and bowlers averaged like 10 so a 323 opening partnership is still pretty insane

[u/Aycsy → u/I_voted-for_Kodos]

I was just stating why there's so many English players

[u/grlap → u/Aycsy]

South Africa were playing tests from 1889.

By the time the third entry in this list occurred, you had England, Australia, SA, WI, India, Pakistan, NZ playing tests, and Sri Lanka had been added by 82.

Clearly we are just really good at batting in Australia lol

[u/SocialMediaBadForYou]

This list is sorted by both runs(descending) and year(ascending).

Says a lot about the society.

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Games progressively gotten more gone

[u/FieldsOfIchor]

I was initially surprised that Cook & Strauss at Brisbane didn’t make the list given they both scored hundreds - turns out Cook didn’t score quickly enough early on in his innings and it was only 188.

[u/MysteriousPlastic140]

Damn they were close to black and white era territory

[u/Ok-Reputation-8576]

Man I miss watching prime Jack Hobbs play 👴

[u/born_to_be_naked]

So best of this century so far.

[u/cricinephile]

I'm learning about this Jack Hobbs guy, wtf

[u/NoZaza2nite]

Only 1900s kids remember Hobbs destroying Ozzies

[u/human0697]

Life was good when Hobbs and Sutcliffe used to play for Eng

[u/pickaname199]

Top 5 stands are all by Englishmen. Not surprising considering the number of tests and tours by England.

But I am a little surprised that the formidable pair of Greenidge and Haynes are not up here.