Highest partnership in T20 cricket: Argentina women’s duo leads list with record 350-run stand
Japan’s Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake and Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming hold the men’s record for the highest partnership in T20. The duo put on 258 runs for the opening wicket vs China in 2024.
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The Twenty20 or T20 format of cricket is often highlighted by individual batting performances. However, partnerships also play an equally important role in the shortest format and help in putting up big totals.
Long partnerships pile more pressure on the opposition since batters from both ends take turns to score runs, forcing the fielding team to change its strategy repeatedly.
There have been many big partnerships in T20s but none have come close to the record-breaking feat by two Argentinian women cricketers.
The duo of Lucia Taylor and Albertina Galan of Argentina hold the record for the highest partnership in T20 cricket. The two put on 350 runs for the opening wicket against Chile Women in 2023 during the first T20I of a bilateral series between the two nations.
While Taylor contributed 169 off 84 balls - the highest score in women's T20Is - Galan remained unbeaten on 145. Argentina posted a record score of 427/1 in the match - the highest team total in the shortest format of the game.
The second-highest stand in T20 is also in the name of two Argentinian women. Veronica Vasquez and Maria Castineiras put on an unbeaten stand of 290 for the second wicket in the third T20I of the same bilateral series vs Chile. Vasquez remaine not out on 107 while Castineiras hit a blistering 155 off 77 balls.
Meanwhile, in men’s cricket, Japan’s Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake and Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming hold the record for the highest partnership in T20.
The Japanese openers stitched together an unbeaten stand of 258 runs against the People's Republic of China to beat the previous record of 236 created by Afghanistan's Hazratullah Zazai and Usman Gani in 2019. Yamamoto-Lake scored 134 while captain Kadowaki-Fleming remained unbeaten on 109.
Afghanistan ended with 278/3, which is the second-highest score in T20 cricket.
Meanwhile, the Indian cricket team’s highest partnership in T20 Internationals is 190 runs, made by Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh against Afghanistan in Bengaluru in 2024. The stand was for the fifth wicket.
Highest partnership in IPL
Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers registered the highest partnership in the Indian Premier League (IPL) during the 2016 edition.
Captain Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers stitched a 229-run stand for the second wicket against the Gujarat Lions. Kohli scored 109 while de Villiers made an unbeaten 129 to take RCB to 248/3 in 20 overs.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru ended up winning the one-sided contest by 144 runs.