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Hayden breaks Lara's record

October 10, 2003

Australian opener Matthew Hayden's record-breaking knock finally came to an end on 380.

The left-hander hit 38 boundaries and 11 sixes in his 437 ball knock in 622 minutes stay at the crease.

Hayden eclipsed Brian Lara's nine-year old record of 375 against England in Antigua. Hayden became only the second player in history to score a triple century in Australia. Only Robert Cowper has scored a triple hundred in Australia in 1965 against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Hayden resumed his innings on his overnight score of 183 and smashed five sixes in the morning session to surpass his previous best of 203.

He reached his triple hundred against Zimbabwe in the first Test off only 364 balls with 33 boundaries and eight sixes. He also surpassed the previous highest score, Michael Slater's 219 against Sri Lanka in 1995-96, at the WACA.

300-run club in Tests:

Batsman Runs For vs Inn Test Series
M Hayden 380 Aus Zim 1st 1st 2003-04
BC Lara 375 WI Eng 1st 5th 1993-94
GstA Sobers 365* WI Pak 1st 3rd 1957-58
L Hutton 364 Eng Aus 1st 5th 1938
ST Jayasuriya 340 SL Ind 1st 1st 1997-98
Hanif Mohammad 337 Pak WI 2nd 1st 1957-58
WR Hammond 336* Eng NZ 1st 2nd 1932-33
MA Taylor 334* Aus Pak 1st 2nd 1998-99
DG Bradman 334 Aus Eng 1st 3rd 1930
GA Gooch 333 Eng Ind 1st 1st 1990
Inzamam ul Haq 329 Pak NZ 1st 1st 2001-02
A Sandham 325 Eng WI 1st 4th 1929-30
RB Simpson 311 Aus Eng 1st 4th 1964
JH Edrich 310* Eng NZ 1st 3rd 1965
RM Cowper 307 Aus Eng 1st 5th 1965-66
DG Bradman 304 Aus Eng 1st 4th 1934
LG Rowe 302 WI Eng 1st 3rd 1973-74

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