List of Ranji Trophy triple centuries explained

In cricket, a batsman reaches a triple century if they score 300 or more runs in a single innings. The Ranji Trophy is the premier first-class cricket championship played in India. Conducted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, it was founded in 1934 as "The Cricket Championship of India".^{[1] [2]}, a triple century has been scored on 46 occasions by 41 different batsmen in the Ranji Trophy.^[3]

The first triple century in the Ranji Trophy was scored by Maharashtra's Vijay Hazare against Baroda in the 1939–40 season.^[3], the most recent triple century in the tournament was scored by Prithvi Shaw from Mumbai, who made 379 against Assam in the 2022–23 season.^[4] The highest score in the competition was made by B. B. Nimbalkar, who scored 443 runs not out for Maharashtra against Kathiawar in the 1948–49 season. It is the only instance of a quadruple century in the tournament.^[3] The highest number of triple centuries are scored by Ravindra Jadeja, who has reached the milestone three times while playing for Saurashtra.^[5] Jadeja is followed by V. V. S. Laxman, Cheteshwar Pujara, and Wasim Jaffer, with two triple centuries each. Tamil Nadu's Woorkeri Raman and Arjan Kripal Singh are the only two batsmen to score triple centuries in the same innings., five batsmen have scored 290–299 runs in an innings, and three of them were not out.

Eight triple centuries have been made by players of Mumbai, which is more than any other team.^[3] Maharashtra have conceded five triple centuries, which is followed by four from Odisha and Goa & Jammu and Kashmir with three each.^[3] Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai has had six Ranji Trophy triple centuries scored at the venue, more than any other ground.^[3]

Triple centuries and above

Key

	Description
	denotes that the batsman remained not out.
	denotes that the total was the highest first-class score at the time.
Mins	denotes how many minutes the player batted for.
BF	denotes how many deliveries the player faced.
4s	denotes the number of fours hit
6s	denotes the number of sixes hit.
Inns	denotes which of the team's batting innings the triple century was scored in.
Date	denotes the date the match started on.
Won	The match was won by the triple century scorer's team.

Ranji Trophy triple centuries

No.	Score	Mins	BF	4s	6s	Player	For	Against	Inns	Venue	Date	Result	Ref.
1		387		37	0		Maharashtra	Baroda	2	Poona Club Ground		Drawn	^[6]
2		640		31	0		Bombay	Maharashtra	1	Brabourne Stadium, Bombay		Drawn	^[7]
3		533					Baroda	Holkar	2	Central College Ground, Baroda		Won	^[8]
4		1006		49	1			Kathiawar	2	Poona Club Ground		Won	^[9]
5		484		40	0		Bombay	Mysore	2	Brabourne Stadium, Bombay		Won	^[10]
6		545		46	2		Bombay	Bengal	2	Wankhede Stadium, Bombay		Won	^[11]
7		605	478	38	1		Hyderabad	Tamil Nadu	1	Gymkhana Ground, Secunderabad		Drawn	^[12]
8		575	411	31	0		Tamil Nadu	Goa	1	Bhausaheb Bandodkar Ground, Panaji		Drawn	^[13]
9		560	400	20	0		Tamil Nadu	Goa	1	Bhausaheb Bandodkar Ground, Panaji		Drawn
10		666		50	5		Bombay	Hyderabad	1	Wankhede Stadium, Bombay		Drawn	^[14]
11		699		37	5		Hyderabad	Andhra Pradesh	2	Gymkhana Ground, Secunderabad		Drawn	^[15]
12		567		25	2		Delhi	Himachal Pradesh	2	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi		Won	^[16]
13		680		47	0		Mumbai	Saurashtra	2	Municipal Stadium, Rajkot		Drawn	^[17]
14		609		28	0		Hyderabad	Bihar	1	Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur		Won	^[18]
15		597		33	5		Bengal	Assam	2	Northeast Frontier Railway Stadium, Guwahati		Won	^[19]
16		601		30	2		Punjab	Jammu and Kashmir	2	Punjab Agricultural University Stadium, Ludhiana		Won	^[20]
17		758		52	2		Hyderabad	Karnataka	1	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore		Drawn	^[21]
18		499		15	5		Punjab	Jammu and Kashmir	2	Gandhi Stadium, Jalandhar		Won	^[22]
19		695		40	0		Orissa	Jammu and Kashmir	1	Barabati Stadium, Cuttack		Drawn	^[23]
20		634		37	0		Kerala	Services	1	Fort Maidan, Palakkad		Drawn	^[24]
21		568		33	5		Tamil Nadu	Maharashtra	1	Hutatma Anant Kanhere Maidan, Nashik		Drawn	^[25]
22		603		33	3		Saurashtra	Orissa	1	Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot		Won	^[26]
23		635		27	0		Mumbai	Saurashtra	1	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai		Drawn	^[27]
24		473		44	7		Haryana	Madhya Pradesh	1	Emerald High School Ground, Indore		Drawn	^[28]
25		458		38	4		Mumbai	Gujarat	1	Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai		Drawn	^[29]
26		812		36	3		Rajasthan	Maharashtra	1	Hutatma Anant Kanhere Maidan, Nashik		Drawn	^[30]
27		558		29	9		Saurashtra	Orissa	1	Barabati Stadium, Cuttack		Drawn	^[31]
28		524		54	2		Maharashtra	Uttar Pradesh	1	Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium, Pune		Drawn	^[32]
29		561		35	2		Saurashtra	Gujarat	2	Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat		Drawn	^[33]
30		707		29	7		Saurashtra	Railways	1	Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot		Drawn	^[34]
31		548		49	1		Saurashtra	Karnataka	3	Saurashtra University Ground, Rajkot		Drawn	^[35]
32		823		34	2		Punjab	Jharkhand	2	Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur		Drawn	^[36]
33		671		47	4		Karnataka	Uttar Pradesh	1	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore		Drawn	^[37]
34		504		38	6		Andhra Pradesh	Goa	1	CSR Sharma College Ground, Ongole		Won	^[38]
35		872		46	1		Karnataka	Tamil Nadu	2	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai		Won	^[39]
36		717	521	37	5	Swapnil Gugale	Maharashtra		1	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai		Drawn	^[40]
37		514	326	42	9	Rishabh Pant		Maharashtra	2	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai		Drawn
38		662	453	39	0	Sagun Kamat		Services	1	DRIEMS Ground, Cuttack		Drawn	^[41]
39		776	460	32	0	Priyank Panchal	Gujarat	Punjab	1	KSCA Stadium, Belgaum		Drawn	^[42]
40		964		45	1	Samit Gohel	Gujarat	Odisha	3	Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur		Drawn	^[43]
41		511	363	44	2	Prashant Chopra	Himachal Pradesh	Punjab	1	Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala		Drawn	^[44]
42		682	456	29	2	Hanuma Vihari	Andhra	Odisha	1	Dr PVG Raju ACA Sports Complex, Vizianagaram		Drawn	^[45]
43			494	28	4	Mayank Agarwal	Karnataka	Maharashtra	2	Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune		Won
44			332	53	1	Puneet Bisht	Meghalaya	Sikkim	2	KIIT Stadium	1 January 2019	Drawn	^[46]
45			414	30	5	Manoj Tiwary	Bengal	Hyderabad	1	Kalyani	19 January 2020	Won	^[47]
46			391	30	8	Sarfaraz Khan	Mumbai	Uttar Pradesh	2	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	22 January 2020	Drawn	^[48]

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