List of Sri Lanka Test cricket records
Highest wicket partnerships
Sri Lanka holds the highest partnerships in Test cricket for any wicket and, with the records for the second, and third wickets.

List of Sri Lanka Test cricket records

Section Title: Highest wicket partnerships
Table Section Text: Sri Lanka holds the highest partnerships in Test cricket for any wicket and, with the records for the second, and third wickets.

Wicket	Runs	1st batsman	2nd batsman	Opposition	Venue	Date

Partners

1st wicket	335	Marvan Atapattu	Sanath Jayasuriya	Pakistan	Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy	28 June 2000

2nd wicket ♠	576	Sanath Jayasuriya	Roshan Mahanama	India	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	2 August 1997

3rd wicket ♠	624	Kumar Sangakkara	Mahela Jayawardene	South Africa	SSC Ground, Colombo	27 July 2006

4th wicket	437	Mahela Jayawardene	Thilan Samaraweera	Pakistan	National Stadium, Karachi	21 February 2009

5th wicket	280	Thilan Samaraweera	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Bangladesh	P Sara Oval, Colombo	20 September 2005

6th wicket	351	Mahela Jayawardene	Prasanna Jayawardene†	India	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad	16 November 2009

7th wicket	223*	Prasanna Jayawardene†	Chaminda Vaas	Bangladesh	SSC Ground, Colombo	25 June 2007

8th wicket	170	Mahela Jayawardene	Chaminda Vaas	South Africa	Galle International Stadium, Galle	4 August 2004

9th wicket	118	Thilan Samaraweera	Ajantha Mendis†	India	P Sara Oval, Colombo	6 August 2010

10th wicket	79	Chaminda Vaas	Muttiah Muralitharan	Australia	Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy	16 March 2004

Last updated: 23 February 2019

Sentence(s)

The record partnership between Jayawardene and Sangakkara is 624 runs and the partnership between Jayasuriya and Mahanama is 576 runs, are the only Test partnerships to surpass 500 runs.

final_sentence: The record partnership between Jayawardene and Sangakkara is 624 runs and the partnership between Jayasuriya and Mahanama is 576 runs, are the only Test partnerships to surpass 500 runs.