10 Batsmen who narrowly missed out on a triple hundred

#9 Martin Crowe

Martin Crowe

Martin Crowe played 77 Tests for New Zealand, scoring 5,444 runs at an average of over 45. He scored 17 hundreds and 18 fifties.

Only once among his 17 100+ innings did he go on to make a double ton. He did that in a match against Sri Lanka in Wellington in the year 1991.

In that match, Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bowl first. Their opening bowling pair of Rumesh Ratnayake and Graeme Labrooy picked 4 wickets each and New Zealand were bundled out for a score of 174. Martin Crowe with 30 was the highest scorer in the first innings.

In reply, Arvinda de Silva's 267 helped Sri Lanka post 497. New Zealand, trailing by 323, required a massive effort from the batsmen to save the Test. And their batsmen did exactly that.

John Wright scored 88 and Andrew Jones scored his career-best 186. Crowe, however, stood the tallest and scored his career best of 299. He was very unlucky to be dismissed just one short of a triple ton by Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga. But Crowe's effort helped New Zealand draw the match as well as the series.

#8 Ross Taylor

Another New Zealand batsman, Ross Taylor, fell 10 short of a triple hundred in 2015. In the second Test of the New Zealand tour of Australia at Perth, Australia batted first and scored a massive 559 in the first inning courtesy David Warner's 253 and Usman Khawaja's 121.

In reply, Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor batted brilliantly, scoring 166 and 290 respectively. Taylor was the last man dismissed, by Nathan Lyon, thus missing out on a well deserved triple hundred.

It was a run feast throughout the five days and the match ended in a draw.