During the India tour of West Indies 2023, the visitors India set many records in their 1-0 series win in the two-match Test series. One of those was the Indian opening partner’s setting up most partnership runs in an away Test series.
In the two-match Test series, the Indian openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and captain Rohit Sharma dominated the Caribbean bowlers. Jaiswal made his Test debut on this tour, where he recorded a century on Test debut.
After putting a 229-run opening partnership in the Test series opener at Roseau, where India won by an innings and 141 runs, Rohit-Yashasvi set up the 139 runs and 98 runs partnerships in the last Test at Port of Spain. Unfortunately, the Port of Spain Test had a draw result due to many rain interruptions.
In the two-match away Test series, Rohit-Yashasvi aggregated 466 runs in three innings.
Here we have brought some crucial stats of Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal’s opening partnership aggregate runs in the Test series
It was the highest opening partnership aggregate runs for an Indian opening partner in an away Test series. The previous record was 459 runs between Virender Sehwag and Aakash Chopra during the 2003/04 Australia tour.
It was the third-highest opening partnership aggregate runs for an Indian opening partner in a Test series.
Indian opening partners with most partnership runs in a bilateral Test series
Partners | Total partnership runs in the series | Number of innings in the series | Opposition | Hosts | Season |
Sunil Gavaskar and Chetan Chauhan | 537 | 8 | Australia | India | 1979/80 |
Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir | 477 | 6 | Pakistan | India | 2005 |
Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal | 466 | 3 | West Indies | West Indies | 2003 |
Virender Sehwag and Aakash Chopra | 459 | 8 | Australia | Australia | 2003/04 |
Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid | 457 | 3 | Pakistan | Pakistan | 2006 |
(Updated till 24 July 2023)
Also, it was the third highest opening partnership aggregate runs in a two-match Test series.
Highest opening partnership aggregates in a two-match Test series
Partners (Teams) | Total partnership runs in the series | Opposition | Hosts | Season |
Graeme Smith & Neil McKenzie (South Africa) | 479 | Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 2008 |
Dean Elgar & Aiden Markram (South Africa) | 469 | Bangladesh | South Africa | 2017 |
Rohit Sharma & Yashasvi Jaiswal (India) | 466 | West Indies | West Indies | 2023 |
Graeme Smith & Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa) | 440 | Pakistan | South Africa | 2002/03 |
Grant Flower & Gavin Rennie (Zimbabwe) | 422 | New Zealand | Zimbabwe | 1997 |
(Updated till 24 July 2023)