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India vs South Africa, 1st Test, Day 3

Sehwag matched the feat of Australian Don Bradman and West Indies batsman Brian Lara, who have also surpassed 300 twice. Lara holds the record for the highest Test score (400 not out).

He achieved his triple hundred from an astonishing 278 balls, which surpassed the 362 balls faced by Australian Matthew Hayden when he scored a then world record 380 against Zimbabwe at Perth in 2003-4.

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Scorers began recording the deliveries faced only in the modern era, with some of the triple hundreds including those scored by Bradman and England's Walter Hammond only recorded in terms of minutes taken.