Voges, Marsh shatter records in Hobart

Adam Voges and Shaun Marsh have shattered a host of records with their remarkable 449-run partnership in the first Test against the West Indies in Hobart.

Compiled across 87.3 overs and scored at better than five runs an over, Voges and Marsh took Australia from a slightly nervy 3-121 in the match's opening session to 4-570 shortly before lunch on day two.

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While Marsh departed for 182, Voges was unbeaten on 269 as Australia declared at 4-583 at the interval.

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The numbers:

- Highest fourth-wicket Test partnership ever, surpassing the 437 made by Mahela Jayawardene and Thilan Samaraweera against Pakistan at Karachi in February 2009.

- Second-highest Test partnership by an Australian pair, behind Sir Donald Bradman and Bill Ponsford's 451, set against England at The Oval in August 1934.

- Sixth-highest Test partnership ever, the stand of 624 between Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene against South Africa remains the benchmark.

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- Highest Test partnership against West Indies, breaking Peter May and Colin Cowdrey's mark of 411 set in May 1957.

- Highest Test partnership made on Australian soil, passing the record of 405 set by Bradman and Sid Barnes at the SCG in December 1946.

- Voges 269 not out is the highest Test score by an Australian against the West Indies, breaking Doug Walters' 242 made at the SCG in February 1969, and also the fourth-highest ever score against the West Indies (the highest is 337 by Pakistan's Hanif Mohammad in January 1958).

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- Voges also passed Ricky Ponting's mark of 209 for the highest Test score in Hobart.

- Voges passed his own personal best first-class score of 249.

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- Voges registered the second-highest score in Australia – West Indies Tests, behind Brian Lara's 277, made at the SCG in January 1993.

- Voges' 269no is the 10th-highest score in Tests by an Australian, and the ninth-highest by all comers on Australian soil.