Batsmen with most triple hundreds in Test matches

#4 Brian Lara

Brian Lara was one of the best batsmen of the previous era. He scored close to 12000 runs in Test matches and was probably the best batsmen from West Indies till now. He has 34 Test centuries to his name and on 9 occasions he went to covert these hundreds into double hundreds. He is third on the list of most double hundreds after Sir Don Badman and Kumar Sangakkara. Out of those nine occasions, he went on to score more than 300 in a Test innings twice.v

In 1994, in the fifth Test of the England tours of West Indies in St John's West Indies won the toss and elected to bat first. They lost both the openers cheaply. Brian Lara anchored the innings and build partnerships which Adams, Arthurton, and Chanderpaul. He went on to score to 375 from 538 deliveries and his knock included 45 boundaries. He was on course to score 400 but was caught off Caddick. But he did go pass Sir Garfield Sobers 365 which was the highest score in a test match innings.

Brian Lara's 375 was the highest score in Test matches till Mathew Hayden broke it in 2004 against Zimbabwe. Hayden was also looking to score 400 but was caught on the score of 380.

England toured West Indies in 2004. In the fourth Test match of the series in St John's Brian Lara the West Indies captain won the toss and elected to bast first. In the first innings, Lara played on of his finest Test innings. His innings included 43 fours and 4 sixes. He went on to cross to Hayden's 380 and also became the first man to reach 400.

Till now this is the highest score in Test matches by a player and no other player has reached 400. Lara reached 400 on the same ground and against the same opposition against whom he scored 375.