First Test, Chennai (day three, close): South Africa 540 v India 468-1
India’s Virender Sehwag hit the fastest recorded triple-century in Test history on day three of the first Test against South Africa in Chennai.
Sehwag reached 100 before lunch and 200 after, before passing 300 from 278 balls in the evening session.
Matthew Hayden took 362 balls against Zimbabwe in 2003 and Walter Hammond an estimated 355 in New Zealand in 1933.
Sehwag, 29, was 309 not out as he and Rahul Dravid led India to 468-1 at stumps, replying to South Africa’s 540.
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