Stand

In cricket, the term stand is used infrequently and means the same as a partnership. It refers to the number of runs earned by a pair of batsmen before one of them is knocked out and a specific pair of batsmen who are on the field from the battering team and should earn wounds.

Why stand is important to a cricket match

So, cricket is one of the greatest games in the world. And, perhaps, one of the games with the most confusing rules. Let’s try to figure out the simplest and most basic ones to understand the importance of stand.

Cricket is played with a ball and a bat; two teams of 11 players compete. The game’s goal is to earn runs for your team and quickly knock out opponents without letting them earn runs. During the inning, the teams take turns playing the role of the bowling and the batter. The batter aims to score injuries; the bowling aims to knock out all the batter’s players and prevent them from getting injured.

There are two batsmen on the field with bats in their hands from the batting team. One stands with his back to his team’s wicket, the other stands opposite him on the opposite side of the pitch. The main way to earn points in cricket is by running. The bowler throws the ball to destroy the wicket and knock the batsman out. The batsman’s job is to hit the ball and then partner with the second batsman to run as many wickets as possible while the serving team is trying to get the ball back in play. Points called runs are awarded for them. And depending on their number, the winner of the entire match is determined.

There are several ways to knock out the batsman, the most common: destroying the wicket and returning the ball to play while the batsman is jogging.

Therefore, for a couple of batsmen who are on the field, strategy and coordination of actions are especially important: after all, it is important not only to make as many runs as possible but also to assess the risks, choose whether to make an even or odd number of runs, depending on which of the batsmen should stay to defend the wicket after the ball is back in play.

What is a stand in cricket?

The term stand (or its synonym, partnership) in cricket means two things:

• The number of runs two batsmen earned during a match;
• The relationship between two batsmen who are on the field at the same time.

Most often, this term means the second option.

Each time one of the batsmen is knocked out, another batsman enters the field, and thus a new stand begins. The stand is often named according to the number of batsmen who have been knocked out before or after. For example, you can come across a “second-wicket partnership” – a pair of players who play after the first batsman has been knocked out but before the team has lost the second wicket. Much less common are situations when the partnership is interrupted for other reasons unrelated to the fact that one of the bastman was knocked out (the end of the match, reaching the overs limit, interruption of the match, and other similar situations).

Greatest stands in cricket history

Cricket is a team game, and the ability to play as a team becomes especially important for partnerships. After all, talented players may not play with each other, while less experienced or less skillful players can work with each other so well that they end up bringing their team a lot more injuries. A batsman is not a team role where you can become great on your own.

The history of cricket knows a lot of stands that changed the course of the whole match. In addition, for each of the cricket formats, statistics are kept for the highest partnerships by runs:

• First in test cricket runs are the partnership between Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene. These are players from Sri Lanka, they set their record in 2006. As a third-wicket partnership against South Africa on July 27, 2006, the two earned 624 runs. Sri Lankans, Sanath Jayasuriya and Roshan Mahanama, also ranked second in test cricket. On August 2, 1997, against India, they earned 576 runs as a second-wicket partnership. But the third place in the ranking is taken by players from New Zealand, Andrew Jones and Martin Crowe (third-wicket partnership). In the match against Sri Lanka on January 31, 1991, they earned 467 runs for their team.
• In ODI, the performance is much more modest due to the shorter game format. In the first place are stand from the West Indies, Christopher Gayle and Marlon Samuels (second-wicket partnership). In the match against Zimbabwe on February 24, 2015, they earned 372 runs. The West Indies, John Campbell and Shai Hope (first-wicket partnership) are also in second place, with two of them having 365 runs in the match against Ireland, which took place on February 24, 2015. A stand from India takes the third place, a second-wicket partnership consisting of Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. They earned 331 runs against New Zealand on May 5, 2019.
• At Twenty20, the records for the most runs earned by a pair of batsmen are even more modest, with a match usually only three hours long. First-wicket partnership from Afghanistan, Hazratullah Zazai and Usman Ghani ranked first. In their match against Ireland on February 23 2019, they earned 236 runs. In second place is the second-wicket partnership of Royal Challengers Bangalore, Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers. In the match against Guj Lions on May 14, 2016, they earned 229 runs. The third place goes to first-wicket partnerships from Australia, Aaron Finch and D’Arcy Short. In the match against Zimbabwe on July 3, 2018, they earned 223 runs.

A batsman can only earn injuries when he has a partner on the field with whom they worked well and can often understand each other without words. Therefore, it is difficult to think of a more important indicator for the batting team than the ability of the players to build a stand.

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