Who will score the next triple

[SpofforthLohman]

I hazard a guess

5 in the 1930’s (Sandham 325, Bradman 334, Hammond 336*, Bradman 304, Hutton 364)
2 in the 1950’s (Hanif Mohamed 337 & Sobers 365*)
3 in the 1960s (Simpson 311, Edrich 310* and Cowper 307)
1 in the 1970’s (Rowe 302)
4 in the 1990’s (Gooch 333, Lara 375, Jayasuriya 340 & Taylor 334*)

...and now we have 8 triples in the last 8 years…(since May 2002)

329 Inzamam vs NZ (2002)
380 Hayden vs Zim (2003)
309 Sehwag vs Pak (2004)
400* Lara vs Eng (2004)
317 Gayle vs SA (2005)
374 Jayawardene vs SA (2006)
319 Sehwag vs SA (2008)
313 Younis vs SL (2009)

So at this rate, who will score the next triple???

Well the rate may not be the best indicator, there's more tests so there's more of everything but I reckon the next test triple will be made by my nephew, he is 6 years old at the moment so we have to wait a few years till he is 16 at least. ....... hehehehehee

 

[SpofforthLohman]

5 in the 1930’s (Sandham 325, Bradman 334, Hammond 336*, Bradman 304, Hutton 364)
2 in the 1950’s (Hanif Mohamed 337 & Sobers 365*)
3 in the 1960s (Simpson 311, Edrich 310* and Cowper 307)
1 in the 1970’s (Rowe 302)
4 in the 1990’s (Gooch 333, Lara 375, Jayasuriya 340 & Taylor 334*)


...and now we have 8 triples in the last 8 years…(since May 2002)

329 Inzamam vs NZ (2002)
380 Hayden vs Zim (2003)
309 Sehwag vs Pak (2004)
400* Lara vs Eng (2004)
317 Gayle vs SA (2005)
374 Jayawardene vs SA (2006)
319 Sehwag vs SA (2008)
313 Younis vs SL (2009)

So at this rate, who will score the next triple???

Just imagine how many test triple centuries Bradman would have made if he played as many tests as Lara, Waugh or Tendulkar. The Don would have scored a dozen triples and scored close to 100,000 runs.

 

[Esperance]

There's this thing called the law of averages.

 

[Daemon]

Pujara, somewhere in the subcontinent probably.

 

[SpofforthLohman]

There's this thing called the law of averages.

And your point was ?

 

[SpofforthLohman]

Too be honest I am more interested as to which future Australian batsman beats Lara's 400. That is a record I want held by an Aussie again. as long as it doesn't happen like Lara's innings did, it was ridiculous and he basically was the most selfish little rat I have ever heard of in cricket. To make 400 ahead of actually trying to win that test to save the west Indies from defeat in the series.. what did Lara do.... he batted and batted and batted and batted, forgetting completely that they needed a win not a draw and he cost his country the series...... worst captain in all history. He must of been so jealous when Hayden blitzed his old record that to him nothing else mattered. I just want to see a test 400 made at a quick rate, if it has to take 4 days to get I dont want it.
That was a rant I needed to get off my chest for a very long time, if an Australian captain did that to Australia he would have to emigrate to the USA.

 

[Prince EWS]

That's a record I wouldn't want to bet on ever being broken.

 

[SpofforthLohman]

Last word on triples, I have always noticed that triple centuries only occur against really realy bad bowling, theres no way around it. Any triple scored against Australia would result in some Australian's blacklisted for a while. EXCEPT in India... any top batsman that plays lots of tests in India and Pakistan should make triples fairly regular, those are dead decks up there.

 

[Prince EWS]

Last word on triples, I have always noticed that triple centuries only occur against really realy bad bowling, theres no way around it. Any triple scored against Australia would result in some Australian's blacklisted for a while. EXCEPT in India... any top batsman that plays lots of tests in India and Pakistan should make triples fairly regular, those are dead decks up there.

No-one's playing too many Tests in Pakistan at the moment.

 

[Flem274*]

There's this thing called the law of averages.

PEWS is gonna blow a gasket

 

[Prince EWS]

PEWS is gonna blow a gasket

I'll let it slide for now.

On topic: Michael Papps.

 

[SpofforthLohman]

That's a record I wouldn't want to bet on ever being broken.

For god's sake, why on earth would you want Lara to hold the record forever ??. Any captain worth his salt would have declared long before he got to 400. To me that is one record that simply must fall for many reasons.

 

[Daemon]

I think he means it's very unlikely that it'll ever be broken

 

[Prince EWS]

I think he means it's very unlikely that it'll ever be broken

Yeah this. I'd love to see a better or more meaningful innings take the record but I just don't really see it being broken, Not without a significant change in the way cricket works.

 

[SpofforthLohman]

Yeah this. I'd love to see a better or more meaningful innings take the record but I just don't really see it being broken, Not without a significant change in the way cricket works.

Well the fact is it is nowhere near Lara's best innings, as you know he usually scored very quickly but not on that occasion, my beef with him is that it turned out to be meanigless and counter productive to the side he was captain of. One thing for certain Steve Waugh would have declared before Lara got to 300 let alone 400 on the third day. Of course compared to Huttons nighmarishly long 363 makes Laras 400 look like a 20/20 type innings but that test was more than five days long I think. There have been much slower big scores in history. Many thought Hayden's record was somehow illegitimate because of the opposition but sure in that 4th test the poms must have bowled extremely badly.

......... I think the 400 will fall, it is inevitable, as the game could go on for millenia yet. If we ever see any batsmen approach Bradman for class then that 400 will take just one and a half days to compile. I would sure love to have seen it. Haydens innings was totally breathtaking and is one of the fastest big scores ever made, he beat Len Huttons mark in less than half the balls Hutton faced ( almost 900 balls faced in Lens knock)... Whoever gets it will be incredible to see albeit for a score like that the bowling has to be just about the worst ever seen for it to happen.

 

[SpofforthLohman]

Yeah this. I'd love to see a better or more meaningful innings take the record but I just don't really see it being broken, Not without a significant change in the way cricket works.

Well the fact is it is nowhere near Lara's best innings, as you know he usually scored very quickly but not on that occasion, my beef with him is that it turned out to be meanigless and counter productive to the side he was captain of. One thing for certain Steve Waugh would have declared before Lara got to 300 let alone 400 on the third day. Of course compared to Huttons nighmarishly long 363 makes Laras 400 look like a 20/20 type innings but that test was more than five days long I think. There have been much slower big scores in history. Many thought Hayden's record was somehow illegitimate because of the opposition but sure in that 4th test the poms must have bowled extremely badly.

......... I think the 400 will fall, it is inevitable, as the game could go on for millenia yet. If we ever see any batsmen approach Bradman for class then that 400 will take just one and a half days to compile. I would sure love to have seen it. Haydens innings was totally breathtaking and is one of the fastest big scores ever made, he beat Len Huttons mark in less than half the balls Hutton faced ( almost 900 balls faced in Lens knock)... Whoever gets it will be incredible to see albeit for a score like that the bowling has to be just about the worst ever seen for it to happen.

 

[Daemon]

I think it'll definitely be broken in this century. Clarke might have even got there against us when he made that 329* at Sydney if he didn't declare. Game ended on Day 4 too.

 

[Jono]

Well the fact is it is nowhere near Lara's best innings, as you know he usually scored very quickly but not on that occasion, my beef with him is that it turned out to be meanigless and counter productive to the side he was captain of. One thing for certain Steve Waugh would have declared before Lara got to 300 let alone 400 on the third day. Of course compared to Huttons nighmarishly long 363 makes Laras 400 look like a 20/20 type innings but that test was more than five days long I think. There have been much slower big scores in history. Many thought Hayden's record was somehow illegitimate because of the opposition but sure in that 4th test the poms must have bowled extremely badly.

......... I think the 400 will fall, it is inevitable, as the game could go on for millenia yet. If we ever see any batsmen approach Bradman for class then that 400 will take just one and a half days to compile. I would sure love to have seen it. Haydens innings was totally breathtaking and is one of the fastest big scores ever made, he beat Len Huttons mark in less than half the balls Hutton faced ( almost 900 balls faced in Lens knock)... Whoever gets it will be incredible to see albeit for a score like that the bowling has to be just about the worst ever seen for it to happen.

Lara sacrificed West Indian cricket to ensure a wanker like Hayden scoring 380 against Zimbabwe did not have the record.

It was the right move, Lara is a hero and a God for doing it. The whole of cricket should thank him.

 

[SpofforthLohman]

I think it'll definitely be broken in this century. Clarke might have even got there against us when he made that 329* at Sydney if he didn't declare. Game ended on Day 4 too.

Mark Taylor set a precedent so I think Australia is the least likely country to get this record. It will probably happen in India because of the flat flat flat wickets but it will have to be an innings like Hayden's 380 when he scored all those runs in quick time. Lara must have expected England to fold easily because he just didn't leave enough time to win the test and get that trophy back... oh well it's history now. Clarke does have a knack for the big score, he loves Adelaide especially so if the record is ever made in Australia it will be at Adelaide for sure, .... P.S. If I remember Hayden got that score at Perth, on a bowlers paradise, remarkable stuff.

 

[OverratedSanity]

400 definitely doesn't seem unbreachable to me... Run rates are getting faster and if things go right and someone like sangakkara comes up against West Indies at the SSC, there's a chance it'll happen