Indian batsmen who could have scored a triple century

#3 Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar has quite a few records in International cricket but he never was able to score a triple hundred in Test matches.

But he did score 6 double centuries but was not able to convert those into triple hundreds.

In the fourth Test of India's tour of Australia in 2004 in Sydney, Indian elected to bat first on a good batting pitch. Indian scored a massive 705/7 in the first innings. Sachin Tendulkar scored an unbeaten 241 from 436 balls. He scored 33 boundaries in that innings. Had he got some more time he might have reached 300 that day. Australia in reply scored 474 on the back of hundreds from Justin Langer and Simon Katich. India scored 220/2 in the second innings and gave a target of 443 to Australia in the fourth innings. Australia batted well and managed a draw.

In the same year in the first Test of India's tour of Bangladesh in Dakha, Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat first. Bangladesh was bundled out for the score of 184 in the first innings. India lost early wickets in the first innings but Sachin and Sourav stabilized the innings with a partnership. Sourav got out but Sachin held the other end. At one stage India was 393/9 and after than Sachin and Zaheer added another 129 runs for the last wicket. Zaheer got out on the score of 75 and had he stayed longer Sachin might have scored a triple century in that match.

Irfan Pathan picked another fifer in the second innings and Bangladesh was bowled out for 202 and India won the match by an innings and 140 runs. Irfan Pathan for his fifer in both innings was awarded the Man of the Match award.