Jason Gillespie played a significant part in Australia's remarkable comeback on day four of the second Test in Chennai on Sunday.

Coming out to bat as a nightwatchman on Saturday with Australia four wickets down and effectively only four runs on the board, Gillespie helped centurion Damien Martyn immensely to dominate Indian bowling attack so much so that the pair added 139 runs to the total.

This is the eighth (joint) highest partnership in Test cricket involving a nightwatchman as can be gauged from the following table. It will be interesting to note that Gillespie's contribution is the lowest by any nightwatchman.

Runs	Wkt	Nightwatchman	For	Vs	Venue	Season
197	5th	Nasim-ul-Ghani (101)	Pak	Eng	Lord's	1962
192	5th	MV Boucher (108)	SA	Eng	Durban	1999-00
170	6th	WW Davis (77)	WI	Eng	Old Trafford	1984
161	2nd	N Boje (85)	SA	Ind	Bangalore	1999-00
157	3rd	H Carter (72)	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	1911-12
155	3rd	AV Bedser (79)	Eng	Aus	Headingley	1948
148	8th	MV Boucher (125)	SA	Zim	Harare	1999-00
139	3rd	AL Mann (105)	Aus	Ind	Perth	1977-78
139	5th	JN Gillespie (26)	Aus	Ind	Chennai	2004-05
131	2nd	RC Russell (94)	Eng	SL	Lord's	1988
129	2nd	DL Underwood (43)	Eng	Pak	The Oval	1974
129	3rd	RR Jumadeen (56)	WI	Ind	Kanpur	1978-79
127	8th	SMH Kirmani (101*)	Ind	Aus	Bombay WS	1979-80
125	1st	JG Binks (55)	Eng	Ind	Bombay BS	1963-64
125	2nd	Wasim Bari (85)	Pak	Ind	Lahore	1978-79