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His 970-minute innings is the longest in Test cricket and was the only instance of a Test triple century scored in a team's second innings until Brendon McCullum's in 2014. Pakistan had followed on, having scored 106 in the first innings in reply to West Indies' 579 for 9 declared, including centuries for Conrad Hunte (142) and Everton Weekes ...
The innings took only 247 balls and was the highest score at faster than a run a ball. [9] Sehwag is the first Indian to score 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. [10]
Amla made his Test debut against India at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, in 2004. [7] [8] His first century came two years later against New Zealand at the Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town. [9] His score of 311 not out, against England at The Oval, London, in 2012, is the only triple century by a South African batsman in Test cricket.
In cricket, a player is said to have scored a century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. Test cricket, the longest version of the game, involves two innings per side in a match. An individual scoring centuries in each innings of a Test match, a feat which is called "Twin centuries," is considered a "milestone" by critics.
Foster's innings was the highest score in Test cricket until 1930, and remains the highest score amongst Test debutants. [3] His double-century is one of seven made on Test debut, the other six were scored by Lawrence Rowe, Brendon Kuruppu, Mathew Sinclair, Jacques Rudolph, Kyle Mayers and Devon Conway. [2]
When he made 334—his first triple century—against England in the 1930 Ashes, Bradman scored 309 of those runs on 11 July 1930, which remains as the highest number of runs scored by a single batsman in one day. [10] It was the highest individual Test score until Wally Hammond scored 336 in 1933. [11]
Test ODI T20I Total 1: Sachin Tendulkar ^ 1989–2013 India: 51 49 0 100: 2: Virat Kohli ǂ 2008–2025 India: 30 51 1 82: 3: Ricky Ponting ^ 1995–2012 Australia / World XI: 41 30 0 71: 4: Kumar Sangakkara ^ 2000–2015 Sri Lanka: 38 25 0 63: 5: Jacques Kallis ^ 1995–2014 South Africa: 45 17 0 62: 6: Hashim Amla: 2004–2019 South Africa ...
Hutton's innings was the only Test triple century scored at the Oval until Hashim Amla's treble in July 2012, and is still the highest by an Englishman at any ground. [4] [5] Herbert Sutcliffe is the only man to have scored five Test centuries at the ground, while Hammond, Hutton, David Gower and Kevin Pietersen have all