Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?

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Q: 67 (IAS/1999)
Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?

question_subject: 

General Knowledge

question_exam: 

IAS

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0,9,23,12,4,7,9

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{'cricket test match': [0, 1, 1, 0], 'wickets': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'test cricket': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'highest partnership': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'highest score': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'innings': [0, 1, 1, 0], 'brian lara': [0, 1, 2, 0], 'highest aggregate': [0, 1, 1, 0], 'jim laker': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'highest number': [3, 1, 5, 6], 'sanath jayasurya': [0, 1, 0, 0]}

The question presents four pairs of cricket players and achievements, asking which one is not correctly matched. Option 1 attributes the highest number of wickets in a test match to Jim Laker, which is correct. He took 19 wickets in a match against Australia in 1956. Option 2 matches Brian Lara with the highest score in an innings in Test cricket. This is also true, as Lara scored 400 not out in a Test match against England in 2004.

Option 3 credits Sanath Jayasurya and Roshan Mahanama with the highest partnership in an innings in Test cricket. They did set a world-record partnership of 576 runs for any wicket in Test cricket, however, this has been surpassed by Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene in 2006 with a partnership of 624 runs.

Option 4 incorrectly associates Sunil M. Gavaskar with the highest aggregate of runs in Test cricket. While Gavaskar was once the highest run scorer in Test cricket, this record was broken by Sachin Tendulkar. Hence, option 4 is the correct answer to the question as it`s the pair that`s not correctly matched.