New Delhi. It is difficult to describe in words the pain of ‘missing’ a triple century by a margin of one run in international cricket. In the 146-year history of Test cricket, till now only two batsmen have been deprived of a triple century despite reaching the score of 299, out of which one batsman had to return to the pavilion unbeaten due to the dismissal of the entire team, while the other batsman had to return to the pavilion unbeaten due to the score of 299 runs. But was out.
Australia’s Don Bradman returned to the pavilion unbeaten after scoring 299 runs in 1932, while New Zealand’s Martin Crowe had to lose his wicket at the score of 299 in the Test against Sri Lanka in 1992.
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When Bradman missed a triple century by one run
The first batsman to miss a triple century despite reaching 299 runs in a Test was Don Bradman of Australia, who scored 299 runs with the help of 23 fours in the Adelaide Test against South Africa in the year 1932 and after the entire team was out. Because he returned to the pavilion unbeaten. After winning the toss and batting first, South Africa scored 308 runs in the first innings. In response, the Australian innings ended at 513 runs. Bradman scored 299* runs while opener Bill Woodfull scored 82 runs. After the early fall of the first wicket in the form of Bill Pansford (5), there was a partnership of 186 runs for the second wicket between Bradman and Woodfull. At the time of stumps on the second day, Australia’s first innings score was 302 runs for four wickets and Bradman was unbeaten on 170 and Keith Rigg on 32 runs.
On the third day of the Test, wickets kept falling from one end while Bradman, undeterred by this, kept scoring runs. Australia’s eight wickets had fallen at 499 and the curiosity was whether Don would be able to complete the triple century or not. He added 14 runs with Pad Thurlow for the last wicket. At this time Bradman had reached 299 runs. Unfortunately, Thurlow was run out on the score of 513 and Bradman remained unbeaten on 299. On the basis of first innings, Australia got a lead of 205 runs. In the second innings, the South African team collapsed for 274 runs. Australia had a target of 70 runs to win, which the team achieved without losing any wicket. However, before remaining unbeaten on 299 in the Adelaide Test of 1932, Bradman had scored a triple century against England in 1930. Later in 1934, Bradman scored another triple century against England.
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Martin Crowe was the only batsman to be out for 299 runs.
After 58 years, after Bradman was ‘stuck’ on 299 runs, another batsman missed a triple century in Test cricket by one point. This batsman was Martin Crowe of New Zealand. In the Wellington Test against Sri Lanka in 1991, Martin was out on the score of 299 in the second innings. He was caught by wicketkeeper Tillakaratne on the ball of non-regular bowler Arjun Ranatunga. Martin Crowe (late) had the highest score in this test. In the match, the New Zealand team scored 174 runs in the first innings and 671 runs (declared innings) after losing four wickets in the second innings, while Sri Lanka’s first innings ended at 497 runs. Crowe was declared player of the match in this test which was a draw.
By the way, apart from Martin Crowe, England’s Alastair Cook (294), India’s Virender Sehwag (293), West Indies’ Viv Richards and Ramnaresh Sarwan (291-291 runs) and New Zealand’s Ross Taylor (290) are also between 290 and 300. Are out on the score.
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12 batsmen are out for 199 runs, two Indian players in this
So far 12 batsmen have been out for 199 runs in Test cricket. This includes India’s Mohammad Azharuddin and KL Rahul and South Africa’s Faf du Plessis and Dean Elgar. The special thing is that the Test career top score of these four batsmen is only 199 and they could not score a double century. Azhar, Duplessis and Elgar have retired but Rahul has a chance to break this ‘barrier’ of 199 and score a double century. Is. Apart from these four batsmen, Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews and Sanath Jayasuriya, Pakistan’s Mudassar Nazar and Younis Khan, Australia’s Steve Waugh, Steve Smith and Matthew Elliot and England’s Ian Bell have also been out on the score of 199.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: April 12, 2024, 15:33 IST