andy sandham was the first person to hit a triple century in test cricket.
andy sandham was the first person to hit a triple century in test cricket.
first person to hit a triple century in test cricket?
andy sandham
the first test triple century was achieved by andy sandham of england against the west indies in 1930 in the first test series hosted in the west indies. the frequency of a batsman scoring a test triple century is slightly less than that of a bowler taking a test hat-trick (30 triple centuries versus 43 hat-tricks as of july 2017). the quickest test triple-century was scored in 4 hours 48 minutes, by wally hammond for england against new zealand at auckland in 1932–33. the fastest test triple-century by number of balls faced, where that figure is recorded, is virender sehwag's 278-ball triple century for india against south africa in the first test of the future cup in chennai in 2008.
list of test cricket triple centuries
sehwag's aggressive batting has found success at the top of the batting order. he has scored centuries (100 or more runs) on 22 occasions in test cricket and in 15 one day international (odi) matches. in tests, sehwag has scored centuries against all the test-cricket playing nations except bangladesh and zimbabwe, and is sixth on the list of leading test century makers for india. in 2001, he became the eleventh indian player to score a century on test debut, with 105 runs against south africa. his centuries have been scored at fourteen cricket grounds, eight of which were outside india. he has made six scores of 200 runs or more, the most by an indian batsman, of which a record three have come against pakistan. sehwag is the only indian to have scored a triple century (300 or more runs), and has done so twice—309 against pakistan in multan in 2004 and 319 against south africa in chennai in 2008, the later being the fastest triple century in test cricket with 300 coming up off just 278 balls. in odis, sehwag's maiden century was made against new zealand at the sinhalese sports club, colombo in 2001. his highest score of 219, the highest odi score ever, was made against the west indies at the holkar cricket stadium in indore. he has been dismissed five times in the nineties.
virender sehwag