Who Has The Fastest Triple Century In Cricket History?

Akshita Patel

An Indian cricketer once created history with remarkable innings in Ranji Trophy [Source: @mufaddal_vohra/X.com]An Indian cricketer once created history with remarkable innings in Ranji Trophy [Source: @mufaddal_vohra/X.com]

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Triple Century is an achievement which only few cricketing talents could and have managed to achieve in the long history of the game. Among them is the example of former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag, who held the record for the fastest triple ton in Test cricket which he managed against South Africa within 278 balls. However, the record of the fastest triple century in cricket's history is actually held by someone else.

Virender Sehwag slammed as many as two triple tons in his glorious international cricket that too at an impressive strike rate. He holds the record for scoring fastest 300 in Test cricket in just 278 balls. Harry Brook most recently became the second-fastest batter to score 300 when he battered Pakistan to bring up the milestone of 300 runs in 310 balls.

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However, a local boy from Hyderabad rewrote the history books with an unbelievable knock in the previous Ranji Trophy season 2023-24. Agarwal was all over the headlines on January 26, 2024, after blasting a stunning unbeaten 323 off just 160 balls against Arunachal Pradesh and creating the record for the fastest triple century in cricket history.

He reached this incredible milestone in only 147 balls, surpassing the previous record of 191 balls set by Marco Marais for Border in 2017. More than that, the attacking innings by Agarwal pushed Hyderabad to a high score of 529 runs in 48 overs at a mind-boggling run rate of 11.02.

Not only that, ​​Tanmay Agarwal's aggressive batting performance was filled with boundaries, recording 26 sixes, which is the most by any player in a first-class inning, thereby breaking Colin Munro's previous record of 23 sixes.

Agarwal's blazing knock had a strike rate of 202.2, the second-highest for any player scoring 200 or more in first-class cricket. Alongside Rahul Singh, who added significant runs at the other end, they formed a 449-run opening stand, just 15 runs short of the Ranji Trophy's all-time opening record.