Highest 10th-wicket partnership in a Test match

Joe Root and James Anderson (both England), batting at numbers 5 and 11 respectively, scored 198 runs for the 10th wicket during the drawn First Test between England and India at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, UK, on 11 and 12 July 2014. Root, who finished on 154 not out, and Anderson, who made 81, took England from 298 for 9 to 496 all out with their record-breaking partnership. The previous record was held by Australians Ashton Agar (98) and Phillip Hughes (81 not out), batting at numbers 11 and six respectively, who produced a partnership of 163 runs in 31.1 overs against England in the opening Test of the 2013 Ashes series at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, UK, on 11 July.

As well as Root and Anderson setting the highest 10th-wicket stand in Test match history, Anderson's 81 was the highest Test score by an England number 11 (beating John Snow's 59 not out in 1966), and, at 230 minutes, it was the longest innings by a number 11 batsman in a Test match. It was also Anderson's first half-century in his 131st Test innings - no player has waited longer for a maiden Test fifty.

For the first time in Test match history, both number 11 batsmen scored half-centuries - Anderson's 81 was preceded by Mohammed Shami's 51 not out in India's first innings. The Trent Bridge Test was also the first to witness two century stands for the 10th wicket - Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Shami put on 111 for the last wicket in India's first innings before Root and Anderson's 198-run partnership.