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Cheteshwar Pujara and Murali Vijay

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Cheteshwar Pujara and Murali Vijay

now have a healthy average of 60.32 when they are batting together for India in Test matches.

Here are some of the best averages for Indian pairs over the years in Test matches with minimum amount of runs kept at 1500.

Top 10 Indian pairs in Tests (in terms of Average)

1) Virender Sehwag/Sachin Tendulkar

Innings: 23

NO: 0

Runs: 1560

Average: 67.82

Ht stand: 336

100 stands: 4

50 stands: 5

2) Sourav Ganguly/Sachin Tendulkar

Innings: 71

No: 3

Runs: 4173

Average: 61.36

Ht Stand: 281

100 stands: 12

50 stands: 16

3) Rahul Dravid/Virender Sehwag
 

Innings: 58

No 2

Runs: 3383

Average: 60.41

Ht Stand: 410

100 stands: 10

50 stands: 11

*4) Cheteshwar Pujara/Murali Vijay

Innings: 28

No: 0

Runs: 1689

Average: 60.32

Ht Stand: 370

100 stands: 4

50 stands: 9

5) Mohammad Azharuddin/Sachin Tendulkar

Innings: 42

No: 1

Runs: 2385

Average: 58.17

Ht Stand: 222

100 stand: 9

50 stand: 5

6) Dilip Vengsarkar/Gundappa Viswanath

Innings: 32

No: 3

Runs: 1638

Average: 56.48

Ht stand: 210

100 stand: 5

50 stand: 7

7) Mohinder Amarnath/Sunil Gavaskar

Innings: 44

No: 1

Runs: 2366

Average: 55.02

Ht Stand: 224

100 stands: 10

50 stands: 7

8) Rahul Dravid/Gautam Gambhir

Innings: 47

No: 1

Runs: 2530

Ht Stand: 314

Average: 55.00

100 stands: 7

50 stands: 9

9) Chetan Chauhan/Sunil Gavaskar

Innings: 60

No: 3

Runs: 3127

Ht Stand: 213

Average: 54.85

100 stands: 11

50 stands: 10

10) Ravi Shastri/Dilip Vengsarkar

Innings: 33

No: 2

Runs: 1690

Ht Stand: 298*

Average: 54.51

100 stands: 3

50 stands: 10.

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First Published: Sep 23 2016 | 10:42 AM IST

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