Stats: 300s by Indians in First Class cricket
Cheteshwar Pujara
List of all the 300s by Indians in First Class Cricket and the facts below.
316*- Vijay Hazare
Maharashtra vs Baroda, Poona, 1939/40
309 – Vijay Hazare
The Rest vs Hindus, Bombay (BS), 1943/44
359*- Vijay Merchant
Bombay vs Maharashtra, Bombay (BS), 1943/44
319 – Gul Mohammad
Baroda vs Holkar, Baroda, 1946/47
443*- Bhausaheb Nimbalkar
Maharashtra vs Kathiawar, Poona, 1948/49
300*- Imtiaz Ahmed
India Prime Minister’s XI vs Commonwealth XI’s, Bombay (BS), 1950/51
323 – Ajit Wadekar
Bombay vs Mysore, Bombay (BS), 1966/67
340 – Sunil Gavaskar
Bombay vs Bengal, Bombay (WS), 1981/82
303*- Abdul Azeem
Hyderabad vs Tamil Nadu, Secunderabad, 1986/87
320 – Raman Lamba
North Zone vs West Zone, Bhilai, 1987/88
313 – Woorkeri Raman
Tamil Nadu vs Goa, Panaji, 1988/89
302*- A Kripal Singh
Tamil Nadu vs Goa, Panaji, 1988/89
377 – Sanjay Manjrekar
Bombay vs Hyderabad, Bombay (WS), 1990/91
366 – Maruti Sridhar
Hyderabad vs Andhra, Secunderabad, 1993/94
312 – Raman Lamba
Delhi vs Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, 1994/95
314*- Wasim Jaffer
Mumbai vs Saurashtra, Rajkot, 1996/97
301*- VVS Laxman
Hyderabad vs Bihar, Jamshedpur, 1997/98
323 – Devang Gandhi
Bengal vs Assam, Guwahati, 1998/99
305*- Pankaj Dharmani
Punjab vs J&K, Ludhiana, 1999/00
353 – VVS Laxman
Hyderabad vs Karnataka, Bangalore, 1999/00
308*- Dinesh Mongia
Punjab vs J&K, Jalandhar, 2000/01
300*- Gagan Khoda
Central Zone vs South Zone, Panaji, 2000/01
309 – Virender Sehwag
India vs Pakistan, Multan, 2003/04
300*- SS Das
Orissa vs J&K, Cuttack, 2006/07
306*- Sreekumar Nair
Kerala vs Services, Palakkad, 2007/08
319 – Virender Sehwag
India vs South Africa, Chennai, 2007/08
300*- Abhinav Mukund
Tamil Nadu vs Maharashtra, Nasik, 2008/09
302*- Cheteshwar Pujara
Saurashtra vs Orissa, Rajkot, 2008/09
301 – Wasim Jaffer
Mumbai vs Saurashtra, Chennai, 2008/09
312 – Sunny Singh
Haryana vs Madhya Pradesh, Indore, 2009/10
309*- Rohit Sharma
Mumbai vs Gujarat, Mumbai (BS), 2009/10
301*- Aakash Chopra
Rajasthan vs Maharashtra, Nasik, 2010/11
314 – Ravindra Jadeja
Saurashtra vs Orissa, Cuttack, 2011/12
327 – Kedar Jadhav
Maharashtra vs Uttar Pradesh, Gahunje, 2012/13
303*- Ravindra Jadeja
Saurashtra vs Gujarat, Surat, 2012/13
331 – Ravindra Jadeja
Saurashtra vs Railways, Rajkot, 2012/13
352 – Cheteshwar Pujara
Saurashtra vs Karnataka, Rajkot, 2012/13
300*- Taruwar Kohli
Punjab vs Jharkhand, Jamshedpur, 2012/13
306*- Cheteshwar Pujara
India A vs West Indies A, Hubli, 2013/14
Facts & Trivia
# Vijay Hazare was the first Indian to score a Triple Century in First Class Cricket. He scored another years later and became the first Indian to register 2 knocks of over 300 in First Class Cricket.
# Bhausaheb Nimbalkar’s 443* is still the only quadruple century in First Class Cricket by an Indian.
# Bhausaheb Nimbalkar’s 443* is the 4th highest individual score in First Class Cricket History. Check out the list here
# W Raman’s 313 and Kripal Singh’s 302* were in the same inning.
# Virender Sehwag is the only Indian to score a 300 in Test Cricket – He scored two !
# Virender Sehwag is also the only Indian to score a 300 in First Class Cricket outside India (309 in Multan).
# Pujara (352) and T Kohli (300*) reached their 300 on the same day, 10th Jan 2013, but in different matches.
Most 300s by Indians in First Class Cricket
3 – Ravindra Jadeja & Cheteshwar Pujara
2 – Vijay Hazare, Raman Lamba, VVS Laxman, Wasim Jaffer & Virender Sehwag
Highest Individual Scores by Indians in First Class Cricket
443*- Bhausaheb Nimbalkar
377 – Sanjay Manjrekar
366 – MV Sridhar
359*- Vijay Merchant
353 – VVS Laxman
352 – Cheteshwar Pujara
Most 300s in First Class Cricket
6 – Sir Donald Bradman
4 – Bill Ponsford & Wally Hammond
3 – WG Grace, Graeme Hick, Brian Lara, Mike Hussey, Ravindra Jadeja & Cheteshwar Pujara
Most 300s in a single First Class Season
2 – WG Grace (1876/77), Bill Ponsford (1927/28), Sir Donald Bradman (1935/36) & Ravindra Jadeja (2012/13)