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Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman established many new records during the course of their 353-run partnership in the first innings of the fourth Test against Australia in Sydney on Saturday.

Their stand is now the highest ever fourth-wicket partnership against Australia by any country. The pair obliterated the 288-run partnership between Englishmen Nasser Hussain and Graham Thorpe at Edgbaston in 1997.

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It is also India's best for the fourth wicket in all Tests, bettering the 281 run-partnership between Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly against New Zealand at Ahmedabad in 1999-00.

The partnership is also the highest for any wicket for India on foreign soil, beating the 303-run stand between Rahul Dravid and Laxman in the first innings of the Adelaide Test of this series.

Overall, it is the third best partnership for any wicket for India, third best for any wicket by any country against Australia and ranks 22nd in Test cricket.

Highest partnerships in Test cricket

Runs	Wkt	Batsmen		For	Vs	Venue	Series
576	2nd	ST Jayasuriya	RS Mahanama	SL	Ind	Colombo (RPS)	1997-98
467	3rd	AH Jones	MD Crowe	NZ	SL	Wellington	1990-91
451	3rd	Mudassar Nazar	Javed Miandad	Pak	Ind	Hyderabad (Niaz)	1982-83
451	2nd	WH Ponsford	DG Bradman	Aus	Eng	The Oval	1934
446	2nd	CC Hunte	GStA Sobers	WI	Pak	Kingston	1957-58
429*	3rd	JA Rudolph	HH Dippenaar	SA	Ban	Chittagong	2002-03
413	1st	MH Mankad	Pankaj Roy	Ind	NZ	Madras (Corp)	1955-56
411	4th	PBH May	MC Cowdrey	Eng	WI	Edgbaston	1957
405	5th	SG Barnes	DG Bradman	Aus	Eng	Sydney	1946-47
399	4th	GStA Sobers	FMM Worrell	WI	Eng	Bridgetown	1959-60
397	3rd	Qasim Omar	Javed Miandad	Pak	SL	Faisalabad	1985-86
388	4th	WH Ponsford	DG Bradman	Aus	Eng	Headingley	1934
387	1st	GM Turner	TW Jarvis	NZ	WI	Georgetown	1971-72
385	5th	SR Waugh	GS Blewett	Aus	SA	Johannesburg (Wanderers)	1996-97
382	2nd	L Hutton	M Leyland	Eng	Aus	The Oval	1938
382	1st	WM Lawry	RB Simpson	Aus	WI	Bridgetown	1964-65
376	5th	VVS Laxman	RS Dravid	Ind	Aus	Calcutta	2000-01
370	3rd	WJ Edrich	DCS Compton	Eng	SA	Lord's	1947
369	2nd	JH Edrich	KF Barrington	Eng	NZ	Headingley	1965
368	1st	GC Smith	HH Gibbs	SA	Pak	Cape Town	2002-03
359	1st	L Hutton	C Washbrook	Eng	SA	Johannesburg (Ellis Park)	1948-49
353	4th	SR Tendulkar	VVS Laxman	Ind	Aus	Sydney	2003-04
352*	3rd	Ijaz Ahmed	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pak	SL	Dhaka	1998-99
351	2nd	GA Gooch	DI Gower	Eng	Aus	The Oval	1985
350	4th	Mushtaq Mohammad	Asif Iqbal	Pak	NZ	Dunedin	1972-73

Highest Partnerships for India

Runs	Wkt	Batsmen		For	Vs	Venue	Series
413	1st	MH Mankad	Pankaj Roy	Ind	NZ	Madras (Corp)	1955-56
376	5th	VVS Laxman	RS Dravid	Ind	Aus	Calcutta	2000-01
353	4th	SR Tendulkar	VVS Laxman	Ind	Aus	Sydney	2003-04
344*	2nd	SM Gavaskar	DB Vengsarkar	Ind	WI	Calcutta	1978-79
316	3rd	GR Viswanath	Yashpal Sharma	Ind	Eng	Madras (Chepauk)	1981-82
303	5th	RS Dravid	VVS Laxman	Ind	Aus	Adelaide	2003-04
298*	6th	DB Vengsarkar	RJ Shastri	Ind	Aus	Bombay (WS)	1986-87
281	4th	SR Tendulkar	SC Ganguly	Ind	NZ	Ahmedabad	1999-00
272	6th	M Azharuddin	N Kapil Dev	Ind	SL	Kanpur	1986-87
256	4th	SC Ganguly	SR Tendulkar	Ind	SL	Bombay (WS)	1997-98
255	3rd	SC Ganguly	SR Tendulkar	Ind	Eng	Trent Bridge	1996

Highest Partnership for each wicket for India

Wkt	Runs	Batsmen		For	Vs	Venue	Series
1st	413	MH Mankad	Pankaj Roy	Ind	NZ	Madras (Corp)	1955-56
2nd	344*	SM Gavaskar	DB Vengsarkar	Ind	WI	Calcutta	1978-79
3rd	316	GR Viswanath	Yashpal Sharma	Ind	Eng	Madras (Chepauk)	1981-82
4th	353	SR Tendulkar	VVS Laxman	Ind	Aus	Sydney	2003-04
5th	376	VVS Laxman	RS Dravid	Ind	Aus	Calcutta	2000-01
6th	298*	DB Vengsarkar	RJ Shastri	Ind	Aus	Bombay (WS)	1986-87
7th	235	RJ Shastri	SMH Kirmani	Ind	Eng	Bombay (WS)	1984-85
8th	161	A Kumble	M Azharuddin	Ind	SA	Calcutta	1996-97
9th	149	PG Joshi	RB Desai	Ind	Pak	Bombay (WS)	1960-61
10th	109	HR Adhikari	Ghulam Ahmed	Ind	Pak	Delhi	1952-53

Highest Partnerships against Australia

Runs	Wkt	Batsmen		For	Vs	Venue	Series
382	2nd	L Hutton	M Leyland	Eng	Aus	The Oval	1938
376	5th	VVS Laxman	RS Dravid	Ind	Aus	Calcutta	2000-01
353	4th	SR Tendulkar	VVS Laxman	Ind	Aus	Sydney	2003-04
351	2nd	GA Gooch	DI Gower	Eng	Aus	The Oval	1985
347	7th	DStE Atkinson	CC Depeiza	WI	Aus	Bridgetown	1954-55
341	3rd	EJ Barlow	RG Pollock	SA	Aus	Adelaide	1963-64
331	2nd	RT Robinson	DI Gower	Eng	Aus	Edgbaston	1985
323	1st	JB Hobbs	W Rhodes	Eng	Aus	Melbourne	1911-12
322	5th	BC Lara	JC Adams	WI	Aus	Kingston	1998-99
308	3rd	RB Richardson	IVA Richards	WI	Aus	St. John's	1983-84
303	5th	RS Dravid	VVS Laxman	Ind	Aus	Adelaide	2003-04