LAHORE: The 410-run opening wicket partnership between Indian captain Rahul Dravid and his deputy Virender Sehwag in the drawn first Test against Pakistan here is only the 11th time that two batsmen have put on more than 400 runs together in the history of Test cricket.

The Indian duo, who narrowly failed to break the 50-year-old world opening partnership record of compatriots Vinoo Mankad and Pankaj Roy of 413, stand 10th in the all-time list of partnerships by two batsmen for all wickets in Test history.

There have been occasions when more than two batsmen have been involved, because of injury to one of them, in adding over 400 runs for a wicket.

The following is the 11 combinations who have put on 400 or more runs involving two batsmen in Test cricket.

1. 576 for 2nd wicket - Roshan Mahanama and Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) V India at Colombo, 1997.

2. 467 for 3rd wicket - Alan Jones And Martin Crowe (New Zealand) V Sri Lanka at Wellington, 1990-91.

3. 451 for 2nd wicket - Don Bradman And Bill Ponsford (Australia) V England at the Oval, 1934.

4. 451 for 3rd wicket - Mudassar Nazar And Javed Miandad (Pakistan) V India at Hyderabad (SindH), 1982-83.

5. 446 for 2nd wicket - Conrad Hunte And Garfield Sobers (West Indies) V Pakistan at Kingston, Jamaica 1957-58.

6. 438 for 2nd wicket - Marvan Atapattu And Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) V Zimbabwe At Bulawayo, 2004.

7. 429 (unbroken) for 3rd wicket - Jaques Rudolph And Boeta Dippenaar (South Africa) V Bangladesh, Chittagong 2003.

8. 413 for 1st wicket - Vinoo Mankad And Pankaj Roy (India) V New Zealand, Chennai 1955-56.

9. 411 for 4th wicket - Colin Cowdrey And Peter May (England) V West Indies, Birmingham, 1957.

10. 410 for 1st wicket - Virender Sehwag And Rahul Dravid (India) V Pakistan, Lahore, 2006.

11. 405 for 5th - Don Bradman And Sid Barnes (Australia) V England, Sydney, 1946-47.