Jadeja first Indian to get 3 triple tons

First Published : 02 Dec 2012, 23:50
Last Modified : 02 Dec 2012, 23:55

By: Rajneesh Gupta

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Mumbai, Dec 02: Ravindra Jadeja today became the first Indian to score THREE triple hundreds in first-class cricket. Jadeja ended Day 2 of the Ranji Trophy match against Railways at Rajkot with an unbeaten 320 – his second triple hundred this season. He had made an unbeaten 303 against Gujarat at Surat last month. Jadeja’s other triple ton had come against Odisha at Cuttack in last season.

Jadeja has now moved ahead of five other Indians – Vijay Hazare, Raman Lamba, VVS Laxman, Virender Sehwag and Wasim Jaffer. These five have two triple hundreds against their name. In all first-class cricket only three batsmen – Don Bradman, Bill Ponsford and Wally Hammond – have scored more triple hundreds than Jadeja. Four batsmen – WG Grace, Graeme Hick, Mike Hussey and Brian Lara – have scored three triple hundreds like Jadeja.

Jadeja has now also achieved the distinction of scoring two triple tons in one season – a feat hitherto performed by only three players.

Most 300s in first-class cricket:

300s	Batsman	Score	Teams	Venue	Season
6	Don Bradman	340*	New South Wales v Victoria	Sydney	1928-29
		452*	New South Wales v Queensland	Sydney	1929-30
		334	Australia v England	Leeds	1930
		304	Australia v England	Leeds	1934
		357	South Australia v Victoria	Melbourne	1935-36
		369	South Australia v Tasmania	Adelaide	1935-36
4	Bill Ponsford	429	Victoria v Tasmania	Melbourne	1922-23
		352	Victoria v New South Wales	Melbourne	1926-27
		437	Victoria v Queensland	Melbourne	1927-28
		336	Victoria v South Australia	Melbourne	1927-28
4	Wally Hammond	336*	England v New Zealand	Auckland	1932-33
		302*	Gloucestershire v Glamorgan	Bristol	1934
		317	Gloucestershire v Nottinghamshire	Gloucester	1936
		302	Gloucestershire v Glamorgan	Newport	1939
3	WG Grace	344	Gentlemen of MCC v Kent	Canterbury	1876
		318*	Gloucestershire v Yorkshire	Cheltenham	1876
		301	Gloucestershire v Sussex	Bristol	1896
3	Graeme Hick	405*	Worcestershire v Somerset	Taunton	1988
		303*	Worcestershire v Hampshire	Southampton	1997
		315*	Worcestershire v Durham	Worcester	2002
3	Mike Hussey	329*	Northamptonshire v Essex	Northampton	2001
		310*	Northamptonshire v Gloucestershire	Bristol	2002
		331*	Northamptonshire v Somerset	Taunton	2003
3	Brian Lara	375	West Indies v England	St John's	1993-94
		501*	Warwickshire v Durham	Birmingham	1994
		400*	West Indies v England	St John's	2003-04
3	Ravindra Jadeja	314	Saurashtra v Odisha	Cuttack	2011-12
		303*	Saurashtra v Gujarat	Surat	2012-13
		320*	Saurashtra v Railways	Rajkot	2012-1

Most 300s by Indian batsmen in first-class cricket:

300s	Batsman	Score	Teams	Venue	Season
3	Ravindra Jadeja	314	Saurashtra v Odisha	Cuttack	2011-12
		303*	Saurashtra v Gujarat	Surat	2012-13
		320*	Saurashtra v Railways	Rajkot	2012-13
2	Vijay Hazare	316*	Maharashtra v Baroda	Pune	1939-40
		309	The Rest v Hindus	Mumbai BS	1943-44
2	Raman Lamba	320	North Zone v West Zone	Bhilai	1987-88
		312	Delhi v Himachal Pradesh	Delhi	1994-95
2	VVS Laxman	301*	Hyderabad v Bihar	Jamshedpur	1997-98
		353	Hyderabad v Karnataka	Bangalore	1999-00
2	Virender Sehwag	309	India v Pakistan	Multan	2003-04
		319	India v South Africa	Chennai	2007-08
2	Wasim Jaffer	314*	Mumbai v Saurashtra	Rajkot	1996-97
		301	Mumbai v Saurashtra	Chennai	2008-09

Two 300s in same season:

Batsman	Score	Teams	Venue	Season
WG Grace	344	Gentlemen of MCC v Kent	Canterbury	1876
	318*	Gloucestershire v Yorkshire	Cheltenham	1876
Bill Ponsford	437	Victoria v Queensland	Melbourne	1927-28
	336	Victoria v South Australia	Melbourne	1927-28
Don Bradman	357	South Australia v Victoria	Melbourne	1935-36
	369	South Australia v Tasmania	Adelaide	1935-36
Ravindra Jadeja	303*	Saurashtra v Gujarat	Surat	2012-13
	320*	Saurashtra v Railways	Rajkot	2012-13

Jadeja first Indian to get 3 triple tons

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