Who will score the next triple

[L Trumper]

Gayle's 317 was against SA, he already got a triple..
Rohit is almost selected and then some ankle twist playing football in pre match training and now down in the pecking order after yuvi and raina..

 

[Furball]

Other than Sehwag who already has a Test Triple, most of the candidates mentioned do not have a FC Triple....Ponting, Tendulker, Dravid, Kallis, Sangakara

Gayle has a FC 317 as does Graeme Smith with a FC 311, so I'm betting they might be a good chance...or maybe Rilee Rossouw who is only 20 and scored a FC 319 this year

...or 23 yr old Rohit Sharma who scored a FC 309* in Dec last year...don't know anything about him, but why has he played 50 ODI's but no Tests as he has a FC average of 55?

Gayle's already scored a Test triple.

 

[aussie tragic]

Gayle's 317 was against SA, he already got a triple..

oops, I should of known that as I did post it in the OP

 

[Neil Pickup]

Throwing this in a totally different direction, which was the greatest triple ever scored?

 

[aussie tragic]

Throwing this in a totally different direction, which was the greatest triple ever scored?

Could it be Jayawardene 374. The scorecard shows SA dismissed for 169, with de Viliers top scoring with 65, and SL were 2-14 when Jayawardene came in...SL innings finshed at 5-756 with Sangakkara also scoring 287...and then SA were dismissed for 434 (Rudolph top scored with 90).

 

[Avada Kedavra]

Throwing this in a totally different direction, which was the greatest triple ever scored?

Being biased here but Sehwag's in Multan for mine.Best thing was the match had a result-not something you would associate with a 300 generally+it was against a quality attack.

Hanif Mohd 300 by all accounts was the greatest ever innings to save a match.

 

[Avada Kedavra]

Could it be Jayawardene 374, which was only 1 run shy of the record at the time (Lara's 375, with Hayden's 380 and Lara's 400* to follow later)

The scorecard shows SA dismissed for 169, with de Viliers top scoring with 65, and SL were 2-14 when Jayawardene came in...SL innings finshed at 5-756 with Sangakkara also scoring 287...and then SA were dismissed for 434 (Rudolph top scored with 90).

Jaya scored his triple after Hayden's 380 and Lara's 400.

 

[marc71178]

Throwing this in a totally different direction, which was the greatest triple ever scored?

Gooch, ending up on 333 is true tripling IMO.

 

[vcs]

Throwing this in a totally different direction, which was the greatest triple ever scored?

Bradman's 334 - I remember hearing that he got a century in each session. I doubt anyone's ever come close to that.

Apart from Sehwag, of course.

 

[Sir Alex]

Going with Sehwag here. He was perhaps the main reason for a result on that pitch.

 

[pasag]

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/37728-greatest-triple.html

 

[andyc]

Hanif or Bradman for mine. Just voted in that poll for Hanif though, which as it turns out drew the two even.

 

[GIMH]

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/37728-greatest-triple.html

Stand by what I said at the time

Only one thing came to mind when I saw the thread title

 

[Teja.]

I have narrowed the list down to six particularly worthy worthies -- or, at least, those that I think will be the most popular among the voters.

Bradman's world record stands as a behemoth. It comprised almost sixty per cent of Australia's first innings, in which only two others surpassed fifty. The English attack wasn't half bad either, comprising such men as Hammond, Larwood, Geary and Tate. The fact that Bradman had his triple ton by the close of the opening day is also difficult to ignore.

Hammond's crusade was every bit as wondrous and magisterial as it has been made out to be, but, against an attack spearheaded by Badcock and Dunning, the task was far easier for him than for most of the others on the list. The bowling was wretched, the wicket a mattress and the fielding abysmal: he was dropped innumerable times.

Hanif Mohammad's triple-ton was not as dominating as the previous two, but a dominating innings would have been completely out of place in the context of a match in which his own team had been ruthlessly dominated. Of all the rearguards in Test history, this one stands sovereign. 970 minutes is just preposterous.

Lawrence Rowe's knock was a bona fide masterpiece, perhaps the beau idéal. It illustrated perfectly what could and should have been. It was not the fastest nor the most heroic, but, as a objet d'art, it is without equal. Never, perhaps, has an innings been more perfectly constructed. The opposition attack was stronger than most on this list, and the wicket was by no means a snooker table. That England's first innings was a footslog may be viewed as proof that run-making was not quite so easy as it usually is in matches containing triple centuries. Where none of his opponents managed a strike rate of even fifty, Rowe flew along at over seventy.

Lara's 375 was at once a patient, autocratic, skilful and imperishable exemplification of greatness. England's attack was decidedly limited, but not hopeless. The Antigua deck, however, was an aberrancy, just as it was when he outdid both himself and that Hayden pretender ten years later. Although it was obviously a great innings, it is obvious, from this abridged list alone, that there were numerous greater.

All of which leaves us with Sehwag's blitzkrieg. Granted, it was compiled on a bowlers' graveyard, but the South African attack was arguably stronger than that which any other triple-centurion had to counter. It was an innings with everything that made the others great and more: for a time, it was a rearguard effort; it was scored at more than a run a ball; the opposition was formidable; he never looked like getting out; there was not a single moment he was not dominating; and it entertained the pants off me.

Sehwag it is.

Gold post.

 

[zaremba]

Throwing this in a totally different direction, which was the greatest triple ever scored?

Hayden. I was delighted when he became a richly deserving world record holder. It's just a pity that his period of tenure was so brief.

 

[Shri]

 

[aussie tragic]

Other than Sehwag who already has a Test Triple, most of the candidates mentioned do not have a FC Triple....Ponting, Tendulker, Dravid, Kallis, Sangakara

Gayle has a FC 317 as does Graeme Smith with a FC 311, so I'm betting they might be a good chance...or maybe Rilee Rossouw who is only 20 and scored a FC 319 this year

So the winner was Gayle with 333 vs SL in Galle Nov 2010

I note that I was the only one that picked him to do it even if the reason was wrong (his FC 317 I mention above was actually a Test triple vs SA)

Other close calls from players mentioned were:

AB de Villers - 278* Nov 2010
Cook - 294 Aug 2011

So who's next....I'm guessing Phil Hughes in SA next month

 

[weldone]

Sachin Tendulkar, I hope...

 

[Himannv]

Mahela Jayawardena

 

[Howe_zat]

Jonathan Trott at the SSC.