Highest Partnerships in Tests by Wicket

3^rd Wicket, 624 – Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene:

Six Hundred and Twenty Four Runs! Yes, that is what you just read! The biggest partnership in the history of international cricket was struck by the two pivots of the Sri Lankan test line up of the past decade and that too against one of the best in the business, South Africa. Sangakkara, who was dismissed to conclude the partnership scored a total of 287 runs while Mahela went on to score a mountain alike innings of 374 runs. Courtesy of the monstrous partnership, Sri Lanka crunched the South Africans by an innings and 153 runs.