He remained unbeaten on 303, as India declared 1st innings at 759/7 with a lead of 282 over England. This is India’s highest ever Test score in an innings. The previous best was 726/9 against Sri Lanka.
Nair took 381 balls to score 303*. He hit 32 boundaries and 4 sixes. While Nair became the second Indian to score a triple hundred, Virender Sehwag is the other Indian to achieve this feat. Sehwag has scored two triple hundreds.