Cricketers who narrowly missed out on scoring three triple centuries in Tests

#2 Brian Lara

Brian Lara scored 375 against England in 1994 and broke Sir Gary Sober's score of 365* - the highest score in a Test innings then.

Matthew Hayden in 2004 score 380 against Zimbabwe and overhauled Lara's 375. But Lara in the same year at the same ground in which he scored 375 against England went on to score 400*. He became the first batsman to score 400 in international cricket.

Lara had a knack of scoring big hundreds which is shown by his 9 double hundreds out of which one is a triple hundred and one a 400. Only Sir Don Bradman and Kumar Sangakkara have more double hundreds than him.

In 1993 in the third Test of the West Indies tour of Australia in Sydney, Australia elected to bat first. Austria scored 503/9 with contributions from almost everybody, Steve Waugh with 100 was the top scorer.

West Indies needed to bat out of skin to save the Test match. The openers disappointed and West Indies lost both the openers for the score 31. Brian Lara who was very early into his career built a match-saving partnership of close to 300 runs with Captain Richardson. Richardson got out on the score of 109 but Lara continued and scored his first hundred. He further built partnerships with Arthurton and Hooper and went to convert his first hundred into a double hundred.

He was eyeing his first triple hundred but unfortunately, he got run out on the score of 277. Had he been able to score a triple hundred in that match he might have scored 3 triple centuries in Tests.