Fastest First-Class Triple Hundred: It is common to see fours and sixes raining in both formats, be it T20 or ODI cricket, but have you seen such an innings in a Test match or first class cricket, when a batsman has scored runs at a strike rate of 200. An innings in which 26 sixes and 34 fours were hit. India’s Tanmay Agarwal had achieved this feat in first class cricket about two years ago. Tanmay Agarwal then scored a triple century in just 147 balls, which is still a world record.
Tanmay Aggarwal had destroyed records
Tanmay Agarwal had made the record of scoring a triple century in 147 balls in the Ranji match played between January 26 and 27, 2024. He played this innings against Arunachal Pradesh. Tanmay had broken many records during his innings. The first and most special record among these was the fastest triple century in first class cricket, which was earlier in the name of Marco Maris. Marco Maris of South Africa, playing for Border, scored a triple century in 191 balls in the year 2017.
Tanmay Agarwal had scored 366 runs in 181 balls.
Hyderabad opener Tanmay Agarwal had scored 366 runs in 181 balls in his innings. During this period, he had hit 26 sixes, which is the highest in any single innings of first class cricket. Tanmay Agarwal got tremendous support at the other end also during this innings. The team’s second opener and captain Rahul Singh had scored 185 runs in 105 balls. Tanmay Aggarwal and Rahul Singh had made a big partnership of 449 runs for the first wicket in the first innings.
Thanks to the stormy innings of Tanmay Agarwal and Rahul Singh, Hyderabad had scored 615 runs for 4 wickets in just 59.3 overs. Hyderabad had a run rate of 10.33 in this innings. Hyderabad’s stormy batting not only broke records but also shattered the morale of Arunachal Pradesh. Arunachal Pradesh team lost this match by 187 runs in just two days.

