Indian batsmen posting 200 plus runs partnerships in a test innings – RR Pant and RA Jadeja script a record partnership for the seventh wicket against Australia
RR Pant and RA Jadeja of India posted 204 runs for the seventh wicket against Australia to provide the 81st occasion of Indian batsmen posting 200 plus runs partnerships in a test innings against various oppositions. All such occasions are tabulated below.
| No | Partners | Wkt | Runs | Inns | Opposition | Ground | Start Date |
| 1 | VM Merchant, S Mushtaq Ali | 1 | 203 | 3 | v England | Manchester | 25 Jul 1936 |
| 2 | VS Hazare, VM Merchant | 3 | 211 | 2 | v England | Delhi | 02 Nov 1951 |
| 3 | VS Hazare, VL Manjrekar | 4 | 222 | 1 | v England | Leeds | 05 Jun 1952 |
| 4 | VS Hazare, MH Mankad | 3 | 211 | 3 | v England | Lord’s | 19 Jun 1952 |
| 5 | VL Manjrekar, P Roy | 2 | 237 | 3 | v West Indies | Kingston | 28 Mar 1953 |
| 6 | VL Manjrekar, PR Umrigar | 3 | 238 | 1 | v New Zealand | Hyd-LBS | 19 Nov 1955 |
| 7 | MH Mankad, P Roy | 1 | 413 | 1 | v New Zealand | Chennai | 06 Jan 1956 |
| 8 | S Amarnath, SM Gavaskar | 2 | 204 | 2 | v New Zealand | Auckland | 24 Jan 1976 |
| 9 | SM Gavaskar, BP Patel | 5 | 204 | 2 | v West Indies | Port of Spain | 24 Mar 1976 |
| 10 | SM Gavaskar, DB Vengsarkar | 2 | 344* | 3 | v West Indies | Kolkata | 29 Dec 1978 |
| 11 | DB Vengsarkar, GR Viswanath | 3 | 210 | 3 | v England | Lord’s | 02 Aug 1979 |
| 12 | CPS Chauhan, SM Gavaskar | 1 | 213 | 4 | v England | The Oval | 30 Aug 1979 |
| 13 | GR Viswanath, Yashpal Sharma | 3 | 316 | 1 | v England | Chennai | 13 Jan 1982 |
| 14 | M Amarnath, AD Gaekwad | 2 | 200 | 3 | v West Indies | St John’s | 28 Apr 1983 |
| 15 | SM Patil, RJ Shastri | 5 | 200 | 1 | v Pakistan | Faisalabad | 24 Oct 1984 |
| 16 | SMH Kirmani, RJ Shastri | 7 | 235 | 2 | v England | Mumbai | 28 Nov 1984 |
| 17 | M Azharuddin, RJ Shastri | 5 | 214 | 1 | v England | Kolkata | 31 Dec 1984 |
| 18 | M Amarnath, SM Gavaskar | 2 | 224 | 1 | v Australia | Sydney | 02 Jan 1986 |
| 19 | RJ Shastri, DB Vengsarkar | 6 | 298* | 2 | v Australia | Mumbai | 15 Oct 1986 |
| 20 | M Azharuddin, N Kapil Dev | 6 | 272 | 2 | v Sri Lanka | Kanpur | 17 Dec 1986 |
| 21 | SM Gavaskar, K Srikkanth | 1 | 200 | 2 | v Pakistan | Chennai | 03 Feb 1987 |
| 22 | M Azharuddin, SR Tendulkar | 5 | 202 | 1 | v West Indies | Nagpur | 01 Dec 1994 |
| 23 | SC Ganguly, SR Tendulkar | 3 | 255 | 1 | v England | Nottingham | 04 Jul 1996 |
| 24 | M Azharuddin, SR Tendulkar | 6 | 222 | 2 | v South Africa | Cape Town | 02 Jan 1997 |
| 25 | M Azharuddin, SR Tendulkar | 4 | 221 | 1 | v Sri Lanka | Colombo (RPS) | 02 Aug 1997 |
| 26 | SC Ganguly, SR Tendulkar | 4 | 256 | 1 | v Sri Lanka | Mumbai | 03 Dec 1997 |
| 27 | R Dravid, S Ramesh | 2 | 232 | 1 | v Sri Lanka | Colombo (SSC) | 24 Feb 1999 |
| 28 | R Dravid, SR Tendulkar | 3 | 229 | 3 | v New Zealand | Mohali | 10 Oct 1999 |
| 29 | SC Ganguly, SR Tendulkar | 4 | 281 | 1 | v New Zealand | Ahmedabad | 29 Oct 1999 |
| 30 | R Dravid, SR Tendulkar | 3 | 213 | 2 | v Zimbabwe | Delhi | 18 Nov 2000 |
| 31 | R Dravid, SR Tendulkar | 3 | 249 | 1 | v Zimbabwe | Nagpur | 25 Nov 2000 |
| 32 | R Dravid, VVS Laxman | 5 | 376 | 3 | v Australia | Kolkata | 11 Mar 2001 |
| 33 | V Sehwag, SR Tendulkar | 5 | 220 | 1 | v South Africa | Bloemfontein | 03 Nov 2001 |
| 34 | VVS Laxman, A Ratra | 7 | 217 | 1 | v West Indies | St John’s | 10 May 2002 |
| 35 | SC Ganguly, SR Tendulkar | 4 | 249 | 1 | v England | Leeds | 22 Aug 2002 |
| 36 | SB Bangar, V Sehwag | 1 | 201 | 1 | v West Indies | Mumbai | 09 Oct 2002 |
| 37 | VVS Laxman, SR Tendulkar | 5 | 214 | 3 | v West Indies | Kolkata | 30 Oct 2002 |
| 38 | R Dravid, VVS Laxman | 5 | 303 | 2 | v Australia | Adelaide | 12 Dec 2003 |
| 39 | VVS Laxman, SR Tendulkar | 4 | 353 | 1 | v Australia | Sydney | 02 Jan 2004 |
| 40 | V Sehwag, SR Tendulkar | 3 | 336 | 1 | v Pakistan | Multan | 28 Mar 2004 |
| 41 | G Gambhir, V Sehwag | 1 | 218 | 2 | v South Africa | Kanpur | 20 Nov 2004 |
| 42 | R Dravid, G Gambhir | 2 | 259 | 1 | v Bangladesh | Chittagong | 17 Dec 2004 |
| 43 | R Dravid, V Sehwag | 1 | 410 | 2 | v Pakistan | Lahore | 13 Jan 2006 |
| 44 | MS Dhoni, IK Pathan | 6 | 210 | 2 | v Pakistan | Faisalabad | 21 Jan 2006 |
| 45 | R Dravid, W Jaffer | 3 | 203 | 3 | v West Indies | St John’s | 02 Jun 2006 |
| 46 | SC Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh | 5 | 300 | 1 | v Pakistan | Bengaluru | 08 Dec 2007 |
| 47 | W Jaffer, V Sehwag | 1 | 213 | 2 | v South Africa | Chennai | 26 Mar 2008 |
| 48 | R Dravid, V Sehwag | 2 | 268 | 2 | v South Africa | Chennai | 26 Mar 2008 |
| 49 | G Gambhir, VVS Laxman | 4 | 278 | 1 | v Australia | Delhi | 29 Oct 2008 |
| 50 | R Dravid, G Gambhir | 2 | 314 | 1 | v England | Mohali | 19 Dec 2008 |
| 51 | MS Dhoni, R Dravid | 6 | 224 | 1 | v Sri Lanka | Ahmedabad | 16 Nov 2009 |
| 52 | G Gambhir, V Sehwag | 1 | 233 | 1 | v Sri Lanka | Kanpur | 24 Nov 2009 |
| 53 | V Sehwag, M Vijay | 1 | 221 | 2 | v Sri Lanka | Mumbai (BS) | 02 Dec 2009 |
| 54 | R Dravid, V Sehwag | 2 | 237 | 2 | v Sri Lanka | Mumbai (BS) | 02 Dec 2009 |
| 55 | R Dravid, SR Tendulkar | 3 | 222* | 2 | v Bangladesh | Dhaka | 24 Jan 2010 |
| 56 | V Sehwag, SR Tendulkar | 3 | 249 | 2 | v South Africa | Kolkata | 14 Feb 2010 |
| 57 | MS Dhoni, VVS Laxman | 7 | 259* | 2 | v South Africa | Kolkata | 14 Feb 2010 |
| 58 | SK Raina, SR Tendulkar | 5 | 256 | 2 | v Sri Lanka | Colombo (SSC) | 26 Jul 2010 |
| 59 | SR Tendulkar, M Vijay | 3 | 308 | 2 | v Australia | Bengaluru | 09 Oct 2010 |
| 60 | R Dravid, V Sehwag | 2 | 237 | 1 | v New Zealand | Ahmedabad | 04 Nov 2010 |
| 61 | MS Dhoni, VVS Laxman | 7 | 224 | 1 | v West Indies | Kolkata | 14 Nov 2011 |
| 62 | CA Pujara, M Vijay | 2 | 370 | 2 | v Australia | Hyd-RGS | 02 Mar 2013 |
| 63 | S Dhawan, M Vijay | 1 | 289 | 2 | v Australia | Mohali | 14 Mar 2013 |
| 64 | R Ashwin, RG Sharma | 7 | 280 | 2 | v West Indies | Kolkata | 06 Nov 2013 |
| 65 | V Kohli, CA Pujara | 3 | 222 | 3 | v South Africa | Johannesburg | 18 Dec 2013 |
| 66 | V Kohli, AM Rahane | 4 | 262 | 2 | v Australia | Melbourne | 26 Dec 2014 |
| 67 | S Dhawan, M Vijay | 1 | 283 | 1 | v Bangladesh | Fatullah | 10 Jun 2015 |
| 68 | S Dhawan, V Kohli | 3 | 227 | 2 | v Sri Lanka | Galle | 12 Aug 2015 |
| 69 | R Ashwin, WP Saha | 6 | 213 | 1 | v West Indies | Gros Islet | 09 Aug 2016 |
| 70 | V Kohli, AM Rahane | 4 | 365 | 1 | v New Zealand | Indore | 08 Oct 2016 |
| 71 | CA Pujara, M Vijay | 2 | 209 | 2 | v England | Rajkot | 09 Nov 2016 |
| 72 | V Kohli, CA Pujara | 3 | 226 | 1 | v England | Visakhapatnam | 17 Nov 2016 |
| 73 | V Kohli, J Yadav | 8 | 241 | 2 | v England | Mumbai | 08 Dec 2016 |
| 74 | V Kohli, AM Rahane | 4 | 222 | 1 | v Bangladesh | Hyd-RGS | 09 Feb 2017 |
| 75 | S Dhawan, CA Pujara | 2 | 253 | 1 | v Sri Lanka | Galle | 26 Jul 2017 |
| 76 | CA Pujara, AM Rahane | 4 | 217 | 1 | v Sri Lanka | Colombo (SSC) | 03 Aug 2017 |
| 77 | CA Pujara, M Vijay | 2 | 209 | 2 | v Sri Lanka | Nagpur | 24 Nov 2017 |
| 78 | V Kohli, M Vijay | 3 | 283 | 1 | v Sri Lanka | Delhi | 02 Dec 2017 |
| 79 | RR Pant, KL Rahul | 6 | 204 | 4 | v England | The Oval | 07 Sep 2018 |
| 80 | CA Pujara, PP Shaw | 2 | 206 | 1 | v West Indies | Rajkot | 04 Oct 2018 |
| 81 | RA Jadeja, RR Pant | 7 | 204 | 1 | v Australia | Sydney | 03 Jan 2019 |
It also provides the eleventh occasion of Indian batsmen posting a 200 plus runs partnerships in a test innings against Australia. All such occasions are tabulated below
| No | Partners | Wkt | Runs | Inns | Opposition | Ground | Start Date |
| 1 | M Amarnath, SM Gavaskar | 2 | 224 | 1 | v Australia | Sydney | 02 Jan 1986 |
| 2 | RJ Shastri, DB Vengsarkar | 6 | 298* | 2 | v Australia | Mumbai | 15 Oct 1986 |
| 3 | R Dravid, VVS Laxman | 5 | 376 | 3 | v Australia | Kolkata | 11 Mar 2001 |
| 4 | R Dravid, VVS Laxman | 5 | 303 | 2 | v Australia | Adelaide | 12 Dec 2003 |
| 5 | VVS Laxman, SR Tendulkar | 4 | 353 | 1 | v Australia | Sydney | 02 Jan 2004 |
| 6 | G Gambhir, VVS Laxman | 4 | 278 | 1 | v Australia | Delhi | 29 Oct 2008 |
| 7 | SR Tendulkar, M Vijay | 3 | 308 | 2 | v Australia | Bengaluru | 09 Oct 2010 |
| 8 | CA Pujara, M Vijay | 2 | 370 | 2 | v Australia | Hyd-RGS | 02 Mar 2013 |
| 9 | S Dhawan, M Vijay | 1 | 289 | 2 | v Australia | Mohali | 14 Mar 2013 |
| 10 | V Kohli, AM Rahane | 4 | 262 | 2 | v Australia | Melbourne | 26 Dec 2014 |
| 11 | RA Jadeja, RR Pant | 7 | 204 | 1 | v Australia | Sydney | 03 Jan 2019 |
It also provides the eleventh occasion of Indian batsmen posting a 200 plus runs partnerships in a test innings for the seventh wicket against various oppositions. All such occasions are tabulated below
| No | Partners | Wkt | Runs | Inns | Opposition | Ground | Start Date |
| 1 | SMH Kirmani, RJ Shastri | 7 | 235 | 2 | v England | Mumbai | 28 Nov 1984 |
| 2 | VVS Laxman, A Ratra | 7 | 217 | 1 | v West Indies | St John’s | 10 May 2002 |
| 3 | MS Dhoni, VVS Laxman | 7 | 259* | 2 | v South Africa | Kolkata | 14 Feb 2010 |
| 4 | MS Dhoni, VVS Laxman | 7 | 224 | 1 | v West Indies | Kolkata | 14 Nov 2011 |
| 5 | R Ashwin, RG Sharma | 7 | 280 | 2 | v West Indies | Kolkata | 06 Nov 2013 |
| 6 | RA Jadeja, RR Pant | 7 | 204 | 1 | v Australia | Sydney | 03 Jan 2019 |
RR Pant and RA Jadeja of India posted 204 runs for the seventh wicket against Australia to provide the record partnership for the seventh wicket against Australia. Previous best was the 199 runs partnership between CA Pujara and WP Saha at Ranchi in Mar 2017. Both the occasions are tabulated below.
| No | Partners | Wkt | Runs | Inns | Opposition | Ground | Start Date |
| 1 | RA Jadeja, RR Pant | 7 | 204 | 1 | v Australia | Sydney | 03 Jan 2019 |
| 2 | CA Pujara, WP Saha | 7 | 199 | 2 | v Australia | Ranchi | 16 Mar 2017 |