The highest partnerships in T20 cricket

New Delhi: The Twenty20 cricket is all about the batsmen. Every individual expects a great show of fireworks. In the shortest form of cricket, sometimes lower order or even the tailenders play such cameos which register them in the records book. The T20 international cricket had witnessed some of the great partnerships till date which includes the monster players as well as the non-regular batsmen playing their cameos.Take a look on the highest partnerships by wicket: 1st WICKET: Loots Bosman and Graeme Smith (170)In the second T20 match of England's tour of South Africa on 15th November 2009, Loots Bosman and Graeme Smith while batting first compiled an enormous 170 for the first wicket in 13.1 overs at Centurion. It was a partnership that laid the foundations for a comprehensive 84-run victory for South Africa. The proteas leveled the series 1-1 with this win.2nd WICKET: Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara (166)The two Lankan veterans despite holding the world record of highest partnership in Test cricket, they are in this list too. Against the West Indies in the 2010 World T20, they came together when Sri Lanka were 7-1 and were only separated 166 runs later in a partnership that carried their team to a total of 195. Sri Lanka went on to win the match by 57 runs. 3rd WICKET: Alex Hales & Eoin Morgan (152) In the recently concluded World T20, what was essentially a must-win game for England against Sri Lanka, Eoin Morgan joined Alex Hales with England 0-2 and chasing 189 to win.An hour later and the match had been turned on its head. Hales scored 93 of the runs, Morgan 57, and by the time the pair were separated, victory was within sight. Hales went on to score a century—the first ever by an Englishman, in what can safely be said to be one of the finest T20 innings of all time as England surged to victory.4th WICKET: Kevin Pietersen & Eoin Morgan (112*)This partnership came during the limited-overs leg of England's 2012 tour of Pakistan when England's batsmen, led by Kevin Pietersen, staged a revival of sorts following a miserable Test whitewash. Morgan and Pietersen came together at 18-3 and took England to the victory. 5th WICKET: Shoaib Malik & Misbah Ul-Haq (119*)This record has survived for six years mainly because scoring 119 runs for the fifth wicket is very difficult in T20 cricket simply because such partnerships normally run out of balls; thus require the coming together of the two batsmen early in the innings. In this case, they came together at 46-4 after 6.4 overs and saw Pakistan past the Australian total of 164. 6th WICKET: Cameron White & Mike Hussey (101*)This crucial sixth-wicket partnership was pivotal in Australia's victory over Sri Lanka in the 2010 World T20. Coming together at 67-5 in the 11th over, they remained unbeaten as Australia set their opponents 165 to win and ended up victorious by 81 runs. 7th WICKET: Paul Collingwood & Mike Yardy (91)This partnership was well ahead of the times in the sense that it was scored way back in 2007 yet displayed explosive power and acceleration more associated with the T20 cricket of today. However, the brutal 91 was in vain as England fell short by 18 runs at the Oval against West Indies.8th WICKET: Wayne Parnell & Juan Theron (64*)This breath taking partnership helped South Africa win a thrilling match against Australia in 2011.The pair came together at 84-7 with 64 still required for victory, and strike rates of 190 and 260 surged South Africa to the total.9th WICKET: Sohail Tanvir & Saeed Ajmal (63)This late blitzkrieg by the two Pakistan bowlers in second T20I on Sri Lanka tour of UAE December 2013 was entertaining but not enough to overhaul Sri Lanka's total of 211. They were doomed from when they came together really, with the task in hand too steep for the two tail-enders to tackle as they fell short of 24 runs later.10th WICKET: Wahab Riaz & Shoaib Akhtar (31)It was during Pakistan tour of New Zealand in December 2010; Pakistan seemingly has a proclivity for these late stands. This one, like the ninth-wicket stand between Tanvir and Ajmal, was in a losing cause. This time, however, it was involved in setting a total, carrying the Pakistanis from 112-9 to 143-9 in the last two overs. New Zealand ended up victorious by five wickets.