#triple century

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Bob Cowper's 307 — Australia's Longest Test Innings, MCG, February 1966

Australia vs England

1966-02-11

On 11-12 February 1966 Victoria's Bob Cowper batted for twelve hours and seven minutes to score 307 against England at the MCG — then the highest score ever made by an Australian at home, and still the longest innings in Australian Test history. England's attack, containing Snow, Brown and Allen, bowled 138 overs at Cowper before he was finally out. Australia declared at 543 for 8 and the match was drawn.

#bob-cowper#307#mcg

⭐Serious

Len Hutton's 364 at The Oval — England's World Record, 1938

England v Australia

1938-08-23

Across 13 hours and 20 minutes at The Oval in August 1938, the 22-year-old Yorkshire opener Len Hutton scored 364 — surpassing Bradman's 334 as the highest individual Test score and remaining the record for almost 20 years. England declared on 903 for 7; Australia, with Bradman injured and unable to bat, lost by an innings and 579 runs, the largest defeat in Test cricket. Hutton's mark is still the England record 87 years on.

#len-hutton#ashes#1938

⭐Serious

Bradman's 304 at Headingley — Second Triple, 1934

England v Australia

1934-07-21

Four years after his 334 on the same ground, Don Bradman returned to Headingley in July 1934 and made another triple — 304 in 430 minutes, sharing a then world-record fourth-wicket stand of 388 with Bill Ponsford. The Test was drawn, but the partnership was the high mark of the 1934 Ashes and proof that Yorkshire's Test wicket could be Bradman's personal property.

#don-bradman#ashes#1934

⭐Serious

Wally Hammond's 336* at Auckland — World Test Record, 1933

New Zealand v England

1933-04-01

On April Fool's Day 1933, Wally Hammond walked in at 56 for 1 at Eden Park and made 336 not out from the next 492 runs of England's innings. The score broke Bradman's 334 as the highest in Test cricket, took 318 minutes, and included 10 sixes — then a Test record. He still finished the two-match series with an average of 563. The match was drawn after only two days of play.

#wally-hammond#england#new-zealand

⭐Serious

Bradman's 334 at Headingley — 309 in a Day, 1930

England v Australia

1930-07-11

On 11 July 1930 a 21-year-old Don Bradman walked in at 1 for 1 and by stumps had scored an unbeaten 309 — still the only triple-century in a single day's Test play. He went on to 334 the next morning, then the highest individual score in Test cricket, surpassing Andy Sandham's 325. The match drew, but the innings catapulted Bradman from prodigy to phenomenon and underwrote his world-record series tally of 974 runs.

#don-bradman#ashes#1930

⭐Mild

Charlie Macartney's 345 in Under Four Hours — Trent Bridge, 1921

Australians v Nottinghamshire

1921-06-25

Between lunch on a June Saturday and tea on the Monday after, Charlie Macartney made 345 against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge — for almost two decades a world record for runs scored by a batsman in a single day, and an innings that announced the man Sydneysiders called the 'Governor-General' to the wider cricket world.

#charlie-macartney#australia#1921