5 Test records that were broken in 2016

#1 Karun Nair’s jaw-dropping knock

Records went in a tizzy when Karun Nair took the English attack by the scruff of the neck at Chepauk, with an authoritative innings rarely on display in one’s debut series. While others slow down on approaching a big score, Nair motored along, leaving several legends past him on his way to a triple hundred, only the second Indian to have ever done so.

In doing this, he took the fewest Tests ever to score a triple century, becoming the first person to do so in his debut series. He also became the sixth youngest to score a 300, and only the third after Bob Simpson and Garry Sobers to convert his maiden hundred into a triple. It was also the highest maiden Test score by an Indian, beating Vinod Kambli’s 224.