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Going into the fourth Test versus South Africa at Adelaide in 1931-32, Australia had four batsmen whose first class average exceeded 60. Their averages going into the game were:
Player | Innings | N.O. | HS | Runs | Avge | 100s
\Don Bradman|114|15|452*|9155|92.47|35
\Alan Kippax|193|25|315*|10186|60.63|36
\Bill Ponsford|178|16|437|10675|65.89|40
\Bill Woodfull|179|32|284|10353|70.42|41
And I can see, as you are probably aware, that your post above was your 6,996th, the same number of runs Bradman scored in Test cricket.
There have been 9052 partnerships in the history of Test cricket that spanned 60 or more deliveries. A few short hours ago, Phil Nevill and an injured Steve O'Keefe batted through the slowest ever partnership (by far) in Test cricket history trying to save the 1st Test against Sri Lanka. Nevill started on 9 (26) and O'Keefe was 4 (89) when Nevill was dismissed for 9 (115) having not contributed to the partnership. The ball-by-ball partnership is below:
W....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|...4.|.....|.....|.....|
.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|
.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|....W
Australia went from 8/157 (56.1) to 9/161 (85.5). Australia needed to survive another 2 hours to effect a draw. To those that don't like cricket, the partnership would have been almost worse than death. But to those that love Test cricket, it would have been intriguing and nail-biting stuff.
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/en..._faced;template=results;type=fow;view=innings