Following the fourth-wicket stand of 454 between Joe Root and Harry Brook, we look at England's best partnerships by wicket.
Brook and Root actually stood for 302 runs in England's shock defeat to New Zealand in Wellington after declaring and enforcing the follow-on, but they smashed that and then some against Pakistan, writing their names into cricketing history.
In England's second Test against South Africa back in 1948, the tourists won the toss and batted first; a wise decision considering their opening partnership of Leonard Hutton and Cyril Washbrook saw them reach 359 runs, with Hutton scoring 158 and Washbrook denied his double century, falling for 195.
England were all out for 608, with South Africa's first innings total of 315 leading to a follow-on. The hosts reached 270/2 with the match declared a draw.
Ten years prior to his opening stand with Cyril Washbrook, Leonard Hutton amassed a gargantuan 364 runs in an Ashes Test at the Oval.
While the opening stand was a mere 29 runs, Hutton alongside Maurice Leyland plundered another 382 as England would declare on 903/7. This being in the 1930s, when the occasional Test match was played to a finish, England batted on and on, with Leyland eventually being run out for 187 before Australia were sent in. The Don Bradman-less tourists were forced to follow-on after 201 runs in the first innings, going on to lose by an innings and 579 runs.
The Test held the record for most runs in an innings for 59 years, when Sri Lanka scored 952 against India, while Hutton's 364 was the most runs scored in an innings until Gary Sobers nearly 20 years later.
The year before England's record-breaking opening stand against South Africa came a record-breaking third-wicket partnership and though both Leonard Hutton and Cyril Washbrook batted, neither were involved in it.
With both dismissed for 18 and 65 respectively, Bill Edrich and Denis Compton met in the middle, scoring 189 and 208 runs, as England went from 96/2 to 466/3.
The hosts would declare on 554/8 before running out 10-wicket winners.
In the history of Test cricket, only one England partnership had surpassed 400 runs, and that was the fourth-wicket stand of Peter May and Colin Cowdrey in 1957.
Enter Joe Root and Harry Brook. England shipping 556 to Pakistan in the first innings gave a good indicator of the state of the pitch, with the likes of Root and Brook licking their lips.
Meeting in the middle with England on 249/3, Root and Brook batted and batted and batted some more. Facing more than 500 deliveries, Root and Brook's partnership was eventually broken after 454 runs, having secured a place in history not just has England's best fourth-wicket partnership, but the best fourth-wicket partnership in Test history.
More known for his white-ball exploits, Jos Buttler had made just one century in his previous 45 Tests when joining Zak Crawley at the crease against Pakistan in 2020.
England were 127/4 with Rory Burns, Dom Sibley, Joe Root and Ollie Pope all failing to reach 30, but Crawley and Buttler would prove near immovable. Buttler finished on 152 with a relatively modest strike rate of 48,87 with Crawley falling for 267.
England would declare on 583/8, and despite enforcing the follow-on, they could only take four wickets in the second innings with the match resulting in a draw.
When you think of iconic performances from Ben Stokes for England, you're naturally drawn to his Ashes heroics at Headingley and his effort to force a Super Over in the 2019 World Cup final.
But his best innings may well have come in Cape Town in 2016.
England knew they had a special talent on their hands four innings into Stokes' Test career with his century in Perth, but his double century in South Africa suggested we could be watching an all-time great.
England were 167/4 when Stokes came to the crease and 223/5 when Jonny Bairstow joined him. While Bairstow remained unbeaten on 150, the Test will forever be remembered for Stokes' phenomenal 258 off just 198 balls, making it the fastest double century in England history.
It remains the highest score by someone batting sixth.
Having bowled New Zealand out for 329 at Headingley in 2022, the hosts fell to a miserable 55/6 with Jamie Overton called upon.
Jonny Bairstow, who was something of a feast-or-famine batter, was averaging 13.71 across his previous seven innings before scoring 136 against New Zealand giving him something to build upon for his home Leeds Test.
In his very next outing he'd score 162 with Overton impressively staying at the crease for 137 balls, cruelly denied a century having being dismissed for 97 in his first and only Test match.
Before copping a bouncer from Varun Aaron, Stuart Broad was a more-than-respectable Test match batter, averaging nearly 24, and before his top score against Pakistan he'd made four 50s including a 76 against South Africa.
Nevertheless, it was hard to expect too much of Broad when he joined Jonathan Trott at the crease against Pakistan in 2010.
England were 102/7, and on a pitch that would produce just three scores of 26 or more across three innings, one belonged to Jonathan Trott and the other to Broad, both of whom cleared 150.
Trott would go for 184 with Broad out for 169 as England would go on to win by an innings and 225 runs.
After bowling New Zealand out for 194, England had built a reasonable lead of 71 runs when Alan Smith joined Colin Cowdrey at the crease.
Steadily, England would increase their lead, pulling away from New Zealand with Cowdrey reaching his century and Smith scoring 69.
Mindful of the time, England would declare on 428/8 with both men still at the crease, before skittling the tourists for 187 to secure an innings victory.
Quite simply, the knock of his life. James Anderson, who over the course of his career would be out for a duck 34 times, came to the crease for England against India at Trent Bridge with his side in something of a hole.
The hosts, who'd conceded 457 runs - with Anderson accounting for 123 of them - had been reduced to 298/9 with Joe Root hoping to hold on to the strike as long as possible when Anderson padded up.
But Anderson was sublime. With a previous top score of 39, Anderson cleared the half century mark, going on to score 81 off 130 before being caught off Bhuvneshwar Kumar for a final wicket stand of 198.
Not just England's greatest 10th-wicket partnership, but the best 10th-wicket partnership in the history of Test cricket.