It’s more or less a formality when batsmen come to bat for the 10th wicket. Either they come to bat with only a few balls to play or when the team loses a lot of its batsmen too soon. In World T20 championship, there are only two occasions when batting pairs successfully put more than 20-run stands for the last wicket. However, in both cases, the batting teams collapsed drastically and put a very nominal total (around 100-run) on scoreboard.
In 2007 World T20, Indian duo of RP Singh & S. Sreesanth, added useful and unbroken partnership of 17 runs when the team needed it most. On losing 9 wickets for just 163 runs, Sreesanth and RP Singh came out to bat with just 8 balls to spare. But they completely transformed the scorecard taking it to 180 at the end of 20 overs. These two batsmen amassed 17 runs in just 8 balls at a brilliant strike rate of 200 plus. In most occasions, tenth wicket stand couldn’t fetch more runs in any world T20 cup. A batting team has scored double digit runs only 12 times for the 10th wicket partnership in the history of T20 world cup since 2007.
Highest Last Wicket Partnership in T20 World Cup
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Batsmen (Team)
|
Runs
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Against
|
Venue
|
Date
|
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S Benn & N Miller
(West Indies)
|
20
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Australia
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Gros Islet
|
11/05/2010
|
|
J Dernbach & S Finn
(England)
|
20
|
India
|
Colombo
|
23/09/2012
|
|
R Haq & JD Nel
(Scotland)
|
18
|
Pakistan
|
Durban
|
12/09/2007
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|
RP Singh & S Sreesanth
(India)
|
17*
|
New Zealand
|
Johannesburg
|
16/09/2007
|
|
Mohammad Asif &
Saeed Ajmal
(Pakistan)
|
15*
|
England
|
Bridgetown
|
06/05/2010
|
|
Hamid Hassan &
Shapoor Zadran
(Afghanistan)
|
15*
|
England
|
Bridgetown
|
05/05/2010
|
|
Misbah-Ul-Haq &
Mohammad Asif
(Pakistan)
|
11
|
India
|
Johannesburg
|
24/09/2007
|
|
Imran Tahir & L Tsotsobe
(South Africa)
|
10*
|
Netherlands
|
Chittagong
|
27/03/2014
|
|
Abdur Razzak & Syed Rasel
(Bangladesh)
|
10
|
South Africa
|
Cape Town
|
15/09/2007
|
|
G Lamb & Raymond Price
(Zimbabwe)
|
10
|
England
|
Colombo
|
04/05/2010
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Highest 10th Wicket Partnership in 2007 T20 World Cup
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Batsmen (Team)
|
Runs
|
Against
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Venue
|
Date
|
|
R Haq & JD Nel
(Scotland)
|
18
|
Pakistan
|
Durban
|
12/09/2007
|
|
RP Singh & S Sreesanth
(India)
|
17*
|
New Zealand
|
Johannesburg
|
16/09/2007
|
|
Misbah-Ul-Haq &
Mohammad Asif
(Pakistan)
|
11
|
India
|
Johannesburg
|
24/09/2007
|
|
Abdur Razzak &
Syed Rasel
(Bangladesh)
|
10
|
South Africa
|
Cape Town
|
15/09/2007
|
|
Morne Morkel & M Ntini
(South Africa)
|
5*
|
India
|
Durban
|
20/09/2007
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Highest 10th Wicket Partnership in 2009 T20 World Cup
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Batsmen (Team)
|
Runs
|
Against
|
Venue
|
Date
|
|
W. McCallan & WB Rankin
(Ireland)
|
9*
|
Pakistan
|
The Oval
|
15/06/2009
|
|
I Butler & K Mills
(New Zealand)
|
8
|
Sri Lanka
|
Notingham
|
16/06/2009
|
|
Saeed Ajmal & Umar Gul
(Pakistan)
|
7*
|
Sri Lanka
|
Lord’s
|
12/06/2009
|
|
I Butler & Daniel Vettori
(New Zealand)
|
6
|
Pakistan
|
The Oval
|
13/06/2009
|
|
Nathan Bracken &
Mitchell Johnson
(Australia)
|
4*
|
Sri Lanka
|
Nottingham
|
08/06/2009
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Highest 10th Wicket Partnership in 2010 T20 World Cup
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Batsmen (Team)
|
Runs
|
Against
|
Venue
|
Date
|
|
S Benn & N Miller
(West Indies)
|
20
|
Australia
|
Gros Islet
|
11/05/2010
|
|
Mohammad Asif &
Saeed Ajmal
(Pakistan)
|
15*
|
England
|
Bridgetown
|
06/05/2010
|
|
Hamid Hassan &
Shapoor Zadran
(Afghanistan)
|
15*
|
England
|
Bridgetown
|
05/05/2010
|
|
G Lamb & Raymond Price
(Zimbabwe)
|
10
|
England
|
Colombo
|
04/05/2010
|
|
Abdur Razzak &
Mashrafe Mortaza
(Bangladesh)
|
8
|
Australia
|
Bridgetown
|
05/05/2010
|
Highest 10th Wicket Partnership in 2012 T20 World Cup
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Batsmen (Team)
|
Runs
|
Against
|
Venue
|
Date
|
|
J Dernbach & S Finn
(England)
|
20
|
India
|
Colombo
|
23/09/2012
|
|
Gulbadin Naib &
Izatullah Dawlatzai
(Afghanistan)
|
10
|
England
|
Colombo
|
21/09/2012
|
|
X Doherty & Mitchell Starc
(Australia)
|
10
|
West Indies
|
Colombo
|
05/10/2012
|
|
C B Mpofu & BV Vitori
(Zimbabwe)
|
7
|
Sri Lanka
|
Hambantota
|
18/09/2012
|
|
Morne Morkel & Dale Steyn
(South Africa)
|
6
|
India
|
Colombo
|
02/10/2012
|
Highest Tenth Wicket Partnership in 2014 T20 World Cup
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Batsmen (Team)
|
Runs
|
Against
|
Venue
|
Date
|
|
Imran Tahir & L Tsotsobe
(South Africa)
|
10*
|
Netherlands
|
Chittagong
|
27/03/2014
|
|
Haseeb Amjad &
Nadeem Ahmed
(HongKong)
|
7
|
Nepal
|
Chittagong
|
16/03/2014
|
|
Almin Hossain &
Nasir Hossain
(Bangladesh)
|
6
|
Hong Kong
|
Chittagong
|
20/03/2014
|
|
Ahsan Mallik &
T van der Gugten
(Netherlands)
|
5
|
South Africa
|
Chittagong
|
27/03/2014
|
|
Umar Gul & Zulfiqar Babar
(Pakistan)
|
4
|
West Indies
|
Dhaka
|
01/04/2014
|