AFP, Nottingham :
England’s Joe Root and James Anderson set a new record for the most runs scored by a tenth-wicket partnership in Test cricket, on the fourth day of the first Test against India at Trent Bridge on Saturday.
The duo surpassed the previous tenth-wicket Test record of 163 – shared by Australia’s Phil Hughes and Ashton Agar against England, also at Trent Bridge, last year – when Root clipped left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja for a leg-side single.
It was the second impressive tenth-wicket stand of the match after Bhuvneshwar Kumar (58) and Mohammed Shami (51 not out) had put on 111 for India in a first innings total 457.
Yet, thanks to the efforts of century-maker Root and Anderson, England achieved a first-innings lead, having been 298 for nine on Friday.
This match was also the first in 137 years of Test cricket where both sides had seen their last-wicket duo share hundred partnerships and where both number elevens – Shami and Anderson – had made fifties.
