India vs South Africa: Rohit Sharma-Mayank Agarwal break 15-year-old Virender Sehwag-Gautam Gambhir record
Rohit Sharma was chosen as the opened for the first time in Test cricket and the records followed.
Rohit Sharma was chosen as the opened for the first time in Test cricket and the records followed.
After the new Test opener scored a century on Day 1, Mayank Agarwal followed suit as he scored his maiden Test century.
The duo even went on to break a 15-year-old record of Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir on Thursday at Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam. The previous record was set on November 20, 2004, at Kanpur.
This was the only third double hundred partnership by an Indian opening pair against South Africa.
The third-highest partnership belongs to Virender Sehwag and Wasim Jaffer on March 26, 2008, at Chennai.
Rohit and Mayank also became the pair with the highest partnership for India against the Proteas on any wicket playing wicket.
They surpassed Sehwag and Rahul Dravid's 268 runs partnership which they had scored in 2007-08 in Chennai.
The new opening duo also have a chance of breaking a 71-year-old record set by England’s Len Hutton and Cyril Washbrook.
The English duo had held the record for highest opening partnership against South Africa and had scored 359 runs at Johannesburg on December 24, 1948.