List of Test cricket triple centuries

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Australian Donald Bradman is one of only two players in the history of cricket to have scored 300 or more runs in a single Test match innings on more than one occasion. The other is Brian Lara of the West Indies.

This list of Test cricket triple centuries shows all instances where a batsman has scored 300 runs or more in a single innings in Test cricket, a feat achieved on 21 occasions by 19 different batsmen from six of the ten Test-cricket playing nations. No player from Bangladesh, New Zealand, South Africa or Zimbabwe has ever scored 300, although Martin Crowe of New Zealand was once dismissed for 299 in a match against Sri Lanka in 1991.

The first Test triple century was achieved by Andy Sandham of England against West Indies in 1930, and the most recent was scored by Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka against South Africa in 2006. The probability of a batsman scoring a Test triple century is comparable to that of a bowler taking a Test hat-trick.

Brian Lara of the West Indies and Donald Bradman of Australia are the only batsmen to reach 300 more than once. Bradman also scored 299 not out against South Africa in 1932. Lara's 400 not out against England in 2004, his second Test triple-century, is the highest score in Test cricket and the only instance of a Test quadruple century.

List of triple centuries

Score	Batsman	For	Against	Inn.	Test	At	Date
400*	Brian Lara	West Indies	England	1st	4th	St John's	10, 11, 12 April	2004
380	Matthew Hayden	Australia	Zimbabwe	1st	1st	Perth	9, 10 October	2003
375	Brian Lara	West Indies	England	1st	5th	St John's	16, 17, 18 April	1994
374	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	South Africa	1st	1st	Colombo	27, 28, 29 July	2006
365*	Garfield Sobers	West Indies	Pakistan	1st	3rd	Kingston	27, 28 February, 1 March	1958
364	Len Hutton	England	Australia	1st	5th	The Oval	20, 22, 23 August	1938
340	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	India	1st	1st	Colombo	3, 4, 5, 6 August	1997
337	Hanif Mohammad	Pakistan	West Indies	2nd	1st	Bridgetown	20, 21, 22, 23 January	1958
336*	Wally Hammond	England	New Zealand	1st	2nd	Auckland	31 March, 1 April	1933
334*	Mark Taylor	Australia	Pakistan	1st	2nd	Peshawar	15, 16 October	1998
334	Donald Bradman	Australia	England	1st	3rd	Leeds	11, 12 July	1930
333	Graham Gooch	England	India	1st	1st	Lord's	26, 27 July	1990
329	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan	New Zealand	1st	1st	Lahore	1, 2 May	2002
325	Andy Sandham	England	West Indies	1st	4th	Kingston	3, 4, 5 April	1930
317	Chris Gayle	West Indies	South Africa	1st	4th	St John's	1, 2 May	2005
311	Bob Simpson	Australia	England	1st	4th	Manchester	23, 24, 25 July	1964
310*	John Edrich	England	New Zealand	1st	3rd	Leeds	8, 9 July	1965
309	Virender Sehwag	India	Pakistan	1st	1st	Multan	28, 29 March	2004
307	Bob Cowper	Australia	England	1st	5th	Melbourne	12, 14, 16 February	1966
304	Donald Bradman	Australia	England	1st	4th	Leeds	21, 23 July	1934
302	Lawrence Rowe	West Indies	England	1st	3rd	Bridgetown	7, 9, 10 March	1974

* denotes that a batsman was "not out"

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Selected Articles

List of scorers of triple centuries in test cricket

AP Worldstream 04-12-2004 Dateline: ST. JOHN'S, Antigua List of scorers of triple centuries in test cricket ( denotes not out): 390_Brian Lara, West Indies vs. England, St. John's, 2004. 380_Matthew Hayden, Australia vs. Zimbabwe, Perth...

April 12, 2004; AP Worldstream

Pakistani media showers praise on Haq's triple century

...Inzamam-ul-haq's record-breaking triple century against New Zealand in the first cricket test was heralded with...at No. 10 on the list of all-time best test scores. It was a...registered only the second test triple century by a Pakistani...Thursday, day two of the ...

May 3, 2002; AP Worldstream

ace has sights set on record-breaking fourth successive century.(Sport)

...outstanding start to his Test career. Since being...into England's Test side for the start...the International Cricket Council's batting...including four centuries and five half-centuries, with an exciting...on the England list of Test big-hitters, has...time. He's new to ...

May 31, 2006; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)

Cricket: Injuries transform England's Test hopes into ashes

...practice to fitness test to crisis meeting, as a lengthening injury list plunged their Ashes...for Thursday's first Test. Definitely ruled...Stewart, but yesterday's triple blow leaves them with...ready for the second Test at Lord's on 19 July...at least the third Test. The ...

July 3, 2001; The Independent - London

. You would entrust him to bat for your life; The Interview Steve Waugh The Ashes are more than a Test series. The archetypal Australian tells Andrew Longmore the voyage is one of discovery

...and his lengthy list of batting achievements...not include a triple century, an omission...generation of England cricket followers, Waugh...he is built for Test cricket, his innings in...record-breaking 16 straight Test victories - which...nerve to play Test cricket. ...

June 17, 2001; The Independent - London

Cricket: Lara's historic century cannot stop Sri Lanka West Indies 390 and 262 Sri Lanka 627-9 dec and 27-0 Sri Lanka win by 10 wickets

...hundred in each innings of a Test, but the woefully inept West...by 10 wickets in the third Test as Sri Lanka completed a clean...Gooch (the only player with a triple and a single in the same match...Lanka in their 19 years of Test cricket, adding them to a growing list of opponents ...

December 4, 2001; The Independent - London

Cricket: Pietersen prepared to set new standards.(Sport)

...outstanding start to his Test career. Since being...into England's Test side for the start...the International Cricket Council's batting...including four centuries and five half-centuries, with an exciting...on the England list of Test big-hitters, has...time. He's new to ...

May 31, 2006; Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

Cricket: Fletcher hails openers.(Sport)

...bowlers paid dearly for Test match rustiness as Herschelle...of Edgbaston in a record triple-century opening stand yesterday...approach sometimes needed in Test cricket. ``They probably were a...Fletcher. ``In one-day cricket the batter comes to you,and in Test cricket it is ...

July 25, 2003; Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

Cricket's maestro:; Sachin Tendulkar

...described by fellow cricketers as a genius...homeland. Even cricket legend Sir Donald...India's touring cricket team. They have...student of things cricket probably had...It is not only cricket writers who have...genius. His fellow cricketers have left little...that Tendulkar's ...

December 7, 2002; The Press

Ponting scores 100 in 100th test

...hundred in his 100th cricket test when he ran two off...Wednesday in the third test against South Africa...surpassed a handful of cricket milestones as he posted his 27th test century. He faced...when he reached triple figures. Starting...Australia's all-time list of ...

January 4, 2006; AP Worldstream