That Big Stand
The fourth wicket partnership of 171 runs between B. W. Sinclair and S. N. McGregor in the third cricket test at Auckland was New Zealand’s highest for that wicket and the sec-ond-highest by any country against South Africa. The only larger fourth wicket partnership was 197 by W. R. Hammond and L. E. G. Ames for England in the 1938-39 test at Cape Town. The stand was also New Zealand’s second highest in a test with South Africa, J. R. Reid, the present captain, and J. E. F. Beck having totalled 174 for the fourth wicket in the 1953-54 test at, again, Cape Town. And, to cap off the list of runners-up, it was also New Zealand’s second highest partnership in a test in New Zealand. The best is an opening partnership of 276 between C. S. Dempster and J. W. E. Mills against England at Wellington in New Zealand’s first test season, 1929-30.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30396, 21 March 1964, Page 11
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157That Big Stand Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30396, 21 March 1964, Page 11
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