In the ongoing second Test of the Ashes series at Lord’s, Australia ended Day 1 on 337/1, with Chris Rogers and Steve Smith both scoring unbeaten centuries in a huge 259-run partnership. In this article, we present to you a list of Test matches where a side ended the first day of the match with an unbeaten partnerships of at least 250 runs!
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| Wicket | Batsman1 | Batsman 2 | Team | Opposition | Venue |
| 2nd | Len Hutton 160* | M Leyland 156* | England | Australia | The Oval, 1938 |
| 4th | Clyde Walcott 152* | Gerry Gomez 99* | West Indies | India | Delhi, 1948 |
| 1st | Bill Lawry 102* | Reg Simpson 137* | Australia | West Indies | Bridgetown, 1964 |
| 2nd | Bill Edrich 194* | Ken Barrington 152* | England | New Zealand | Leeds, 1965 |
| 2nd | R McCosker 126* | Ian Chappell 142* | Australia | England | The Oval, 1975 |
| 1st | Geoff Marsh 125* | Mark Taylor 141* | Australia | England | Nottingham, 1989 |
| 3rd | Sourav Ganguly 136* | S Tendulkar 123* | India | England | Nottingham, 1996 |
| 3rd | Younis Khan 127* | Inzamam-ul-Haq 184* | Pakistan | India | Bangalore, 2004 |
| 1st | N McKenzie 169* | Graeme Smith 223* | South Africa | Bangladesh | Chittagong, 2007 |
| 1st | D Karthik 82* (retired hurt) | W Jaffer 138* (retired hurt) | India | Bangladesh | Mirpur, 2007 |
| 3rd | Hashim Amla 169* | Jacques Kallis 223* | South Africa | India | Nagpur, 2009 |
| 4th | Ricky Ponting 137* | Michael Clarke 140* | Australia | India | Adelaide, 2011 |
| 2nd | Md Hafeez 172* | Azhar Ali 92* | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | Colombo(SSC), 2012 |
| 4th | Hashim Amla 133* | AB de Villiers 141* | South Africa | West Indies | Pretoria, 2014 |
| 2nd | Chris Rogers 158* | Steve Smith 129* | Australia | England | Lord’s, 2015 |
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