Cricketers who narrowly missed out on scoring three triple centuries in Tests

#4 Sir Don Bradman

Sir Don Bradman will always be remembered for his phenomenal average of almost 100 in Test matches. In just 52 Test matches he scored 29 hundreds and out of those 29 hundreds, 12 times he converted them into double hundreds. He still holds the record of most double hundred in Test matches. Twice in his career, he reached the milestone of 300 runs in a Test innings.

The first time he scored one was against England in Leeds in 1930. He scored 334 from 448 balls and his knock included 46 boundaries.

After 4 years in 1934 against England again on the same ground, he scored 304 from 473 balls and his knock included 43 fours and 2 sixes.

But other than these two knocks there was another knock when he came close to scoring a triple hundred. In 1932 against South Africa in Adelaide, in the first innings, Bradman like always, held one end up as wickets kept tumbling at the other end. At one stage Australia was 421/8. He built a partnership with Reilly of 78 runs and took Australia to 499/9. Bradman had reached really close to scoring another triple century. But unfortunately Thurlow, the last man, got run-out and Bradman was stranded on 299*. He truly deserved that triple century and could have become the first player to score three triple centuries if he could have scored one more run in that innings.