# List of Test cricket triple centuries

A triple century (an individual score of 300 runs or more) in Test cricket has been scored on 32 occasions by 28 batsmen from eight of the twelve Test-cricket playing nations. No player from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ireland or Zimbabwe has scored 300. A batsman scoring a Test triple century is slightly rarer than a bowler taking a Test hat-trick (32 triple centuries versus 46 hat-tricks as of October 2024).
No triple centuries have yet been scored in women's Test cricket.

## History

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 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.
Donald Bradman (Australia), Brian Lara (West Indies), Virender Sehwag (India), and Chris Gayle (West Indies) are the only batsmen to reach 300 more than once. 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; Lara is also the only player to have surpassed 350 twice. Bradman also scored 299 not out against South Africa in 1932. Sehwag also scored 293 off 254 balls in the third Test between Sri Lanka and India in December 2009. On an all-round note, Gooch, Jayasuriya and Clarke are the only triple centurions to have also bowled and taken wickets in the same match as scoring a 300: there has not yet been a triple centurion who kept wicket in the same match (Sangakkara and McCullum were both regular keepers for their nations, but both were playing purely as batsmen in the matches where they scored their respective 300s). Simpson, Gooch, Taylor, Lara (2004), Jayawardene, Khan, Clarke and McCullum are the only batsmen to score triple centuries as captain.
On 10 October 2024, Harry Brook joined the list, becoming the first England player since Graham Gooch did so in 1990 to score 300+.
The two cricket grounds with the most triple centuries scored at them are Headingley in Leeds, England, and the Antigua Recreation Ground in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, both with three. The most triple centuries scored by players from one country is eight, by Australia.

## Triple centuries and above
### Key

| | Description |
| * | denotes that the batsman remained not out. |
| † | denotes that the total was the highest Test match score at the time. |
| (c) | denotes that the batsman was captain. |
| Innings | denotes which of the team's batting innings the triple century was scored in. |
| Test | denotes the number of the Test match played in that series. |
| Date | denotes the date the match started on. |
| ^ | denotes that the total was the highest Test match score by a captain at the time. |
| No | Score | Batsman | For | Against | Innings | Test | Ground | Date |
| 1 | 325 † | Andy Sandham | England | West Indies | 1st | 4th | Sabina Park, Kingston | 3 April 1930 |
| 2 | 334 † | Donald Bradman | Australia | England | 1st | 3rd | Headingley, Leeds | 11 July 1930 |
| 3 | 336* † | Wally Hammond | England | New Zealand | 1st | 2nd | Eden Park, Auckland | 31 March 1933 |
| 4 | 304 | Donald Bradman | Australia | England | 1st | 4th | Headingley, Leeds | 20 July 1934 |
| 5 | 364 † | Len Hutton | England | Australia | 1st | 5th | The Oval, London | 20 August 1938 |
| 6 | 337 | Hanif Mohammad | Pakistan | West Indies | 2nd | 1st | Kensington Oval, Bridgetown | 17 January 1958 |
| 7 | 365* † | Garfield Sobers | West Indies | Pakistan | 1st | 3rd | Sabina Park, Kingston | 26 February 1958 |
| 8 | 311 (c) ^ | Bob Simpson | Australia | England | 1st | 4th | Old Trafford, Manchester | 23 July 1964 |
| 9 | 310* | John Edrich | England | New Zealand | 1st | 3rd | Headingley, Leeds | 8 July 1965 |
| 10 | 307 | Bob Cowper | Australia | England | 1st | 5th | Melbourne Cricket Ground | 11 February 1966 |
| 11 | 302 | Lawrence Rowe | West Indies | England | 1st | 3rd | Kensington Oval, Bridgetown | 6 March 1974 |
| 12 | 333 (c) ^ | Graham Gooch | England | India | 1st | 1st | Lord's Cricket Ground, London | 26 July 1990 |
| 13 | 375 † | Brian Lara | West Indies | England | 1st | 5th | Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's | 16 April 1994 |
| 14 | 340 | Sanath Jayasuriya | Sri Lanka | India | 1st | 1st | R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo | 2 August 1997 |
| 15 | 334* (c) ^ | Mark Taylor | Australia | Pakistan | 1st | 2nd | Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar | 15 October 1998 |
| 16 | 329 | Inzamam-ul-Haq | Pakistan | New Zealand | 1st | 1st | Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore | 1 May 2002 |
| 17 | 380 † | Matthew Hayden | Australia | Zimbabwe | 1st | 1st | WACA Ground, Perth | 9 October 2003 |
| 18 | 309 | Virender Sehwag | India | Pakistan | 1st | 1st | Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan | 28 March 2004 |
| 19 | 400* † (c) ^ | Brian Lara | West Indies | England | 1st | 4th | Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's | 10 April 2004 |
| 20 | 317 | Chris Gayle | West Indies | South Africa | 1st | 4th | Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's | 29 April 2005 |
| 21 | 374 (c) | Mahela Jayawardene | Sri Lanka | South Africa | 1st | 1st | Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo | 27 July 2006 |
| 22 | 319 | Virender Sehwag | India | South Africa | 1st | 1st | M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai | 26 March 2008 |
| 23 | 313 (c) | Younis Khan | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 1st | 1st | National Stadium, Karachi | 21 February 2009 |
| 24 | 333 | Chris Gayle | West Indies | Sri Lanka | 1st | 1st | Galle International Stadium | 15 November 2010 |
| 25 | 329* (c) | Michael Clarke | Australia | India | 1st | 2nd | Sydney Cricket Ground | 3 January 2012 |
| 26 | 311* | Hashim Amla | South Africa | England | 1st | 1st | The Oval, London | 19 July 2012 |
| 27 | 319 | Kumar Sangakkara | Sri Lanka | Bangladesh | 1st | 2nd | Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong | 5 February 2014 |
| 28 | 302 (c) | Brendon McCullum | New Zealand | India | 2nd | 2nd | Basin Reserve, Wellington | 18 February 2014 |
| 29 | 302* | Azhar Ali | Pakistan | West Indies | 1st | 1st | Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai | 13 October 2016 |
| 30 | 303* | Karun Nair | India | England | 1st | 5th | M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai | 16 December 2016 |
| 31 | 335* | David Warner | Australia | Pakistan | 1st | 2nd | Adelaide Oval, Australia | 30 November 2019 |
| 32 | 317 | Harry Brook | England | Pakistan | 1st | 1st | Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan | 7 October 2024 |

## By country

Triple centurions in Tests by country :
| Team | Triple centuries | Players |
| Australia | 8 | 7 |
| West Indies | 6 | 4 |
| England | 6 | 6 |
| Pakistan | 4 | 4 |
| Sri Lanka | 3 | 3 |
| India | 3 | 2 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 32 | 28 |

## By player

Players with multiple triple centuries :
| Player | Triple centuries |
| Donald Bradman | 2 |
| Chris Gayle | 2 |
| Brian Lara | 2 |
| Virender Sehwag | 2 |

## By ground

Grounds involved in multiple Test triple centuries :
| Ground | Triple centuries |
| Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's | 3 |
| Headingley, Leeds | 3 |
| Kensington Oval, Bridgetown | 2 |
| The Oval, London | 2 |
| M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai | 2 |
| Sabina Park, Kingston | 2 |
| Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan | 2 |