Devon Conway, Tom Latham Create History, Become First Pair In The World To...
New Zealand and West Indies are currently taking on each other in the third and final Test of the three-match series at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui. On Day 1, New Zealand won the toss and opted to bat first, and it was a show by openers Devon Conway and Tom Latham. Just two days after being unsold in the auction, Conway slammed 178* at the end of the day, while his opening partner and captain Latham scored 137. Together, the duo created history with a massive opening partnership.
Devon Conway and Tom Latham managed to score 323 runs for the first wicket against West Indies. This is now the highest opening stand in the history of the World Test Championship (WTC). They have overtaken the Indian opening pair of Rohit Sharma and Mayank Agarwal who smahed 317 for the first wicket against South Africa in 2019.
Here are the opening pairs with the highest partnerships in WTC history:
Devon Conway, Tom Latham (NZ) - 323 runs vs WI, 2025
Mayank Agarwal, Rohit Sharma (IND) - 317 vs RSA, 2019
Abid Ali, Shan Masood (PAK) - 278 vs SL, 2019
Abdullah Shafique, Imam-ul-Haq (PAK) - 252 vs AUS, 2022
Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett (ENG) - 233 vs PAK, 2022
Devon Conway, Tom Latham Break 95-Year-Old Record
Devon Conway and Tom Latham's 323 run stand broke a record which stood for 95 years. They have registered the highest partnership by an opening pair on New Zealand soil. They broke the record of Charles Stewart Dempster and John Ernest Mills who had stitched 276 runs against England in Wellington in 1930.
Overall, Conway and Latham have registered the second-highest opening partnership by a New Zealand pair in Test history, just behinnd Glenn Turner and Terry Jarvis, who put on 387 against West Indies in Georgetown in 1972.
