KK Nair of India scored 303 not out against England at Chennai in the ongoing test to provide the third occasion of a batsman scoring a triple century as his first century in a test innings. Others are – GS Sobers of West Indies and RB Simpson of Australia. The performance of these three batsmen are listed below

No	Batsman	Score	Team	Oppn	Ground	Season
1	GS Sobers	365*	Win	Pak	Kingston	1957	58
2	RB Simpson	311	Aus	Eng	Manchester	1964
3	KK Nair	303*	Ind	Eng	Chennai	2016	17

KK Nair of India scored 303 not out against England at Chennai in the ongoing test to provide the 22^nd occasion of a batsman scoring a double century as his first century in a test innings. All such occasions are listed below

No	Batsman	Score	Team	Oppn	Ground	Season
1	SE Gregory	201	Aus	Eng	Sydney	1894	95
2	WR Hammond	251	Eng	Aus	Sydney	1928	29
3	AD Nourse	231	SAF	Aus	Johannesburg	1935	36
4	E  Paynter	216*	Eng	Aus	Nottingham	1938
5	WJ Edrich	219	Eng	SAF	Durban	1938	39
6	SG Barnes	234	Aus	Eng	Sydney	1946	47
7	DJ McGlew	255*	SAF	NZl	Wellington	1952	53
8	Imtiaz  Ahmed	209	Pak	NZl	Lahore	1955	56
9	GS Sobers	365*	Win	Pak	Kingston	1957	58
10	RB Kanhai	256	Win	Ind	Kolkata	1958	59
11	RB Simpson	311	Aus	Eng	Manchester	1964
12	SM  Nurse	201	Win	Aus	Bridgetown	1964	65
13	DN Sardesai	200*	Ind	NZl	Mumbai-WS	1964	65
14	Zaheer Abbas	274	Pak	Eng	Birmingham	1971
15	LG Rowe	214	Win	NZl	Kingston	1971	72
16	DM Jones	210	Aus	Ind	Chennai	1986	87
17	DSBP Kuruppu	201*	Srl	NZl	Col-CCC	1986	87
18	BC Lara	277	Win	Aus	Sydney	1992	93
19	VG Kambli	224	Ind	Eng	Mumbai-WS	1992	93
20	SL Campbell	208	Win	NZl	Auckland	1995	96
21	GW Flower	201*	Zim	Pak	Harare	1997	98
22	KK Nair	303*	Ind	Eng	Chennai	2016	17

KK Nair of India scored 303 not out against England at Chennai in the ongoing test to provide the third occasion of an Indian batsman scoring a double century as his first century in a test innings. All such occasions are listed below. KK Nair became the first Indian batsman to score a triple century as his first century

No	Batsman	Score	Team	Oppn	Ground	Season
1	DN Sardesai	200*	Ind	NZl	Mumbai-WS	1964	65
2	VG Kambli	224	Ind	Eng	Mumbai-WS	1992	93
3	KK Nair	303*	Ind	Eng	Chennai	2016	17

Chennai – Chepauk  witnessed second occasion of a batsman  scoring a double century as his first century. Prior to KK Nair’s feat, DM Jones of Australia has scored 210 against India at Chennai in 1986-87

No	Batsman	Score	Team	Oppn	Ground	Season
1	DM Jones	210	Aus	Ind	Chennai	1986	87
2	KK Nair	303*	Ind	Eng	Chennai	2016	17

KK Nair became the sixth batsman to score 200 plus runs as his first century against England. All such occasions are listed below

No	Batsman	Score	Team	Oppn	Ground	Season
1	SE Gregory	201	Aus	Eng	Sydney	1894	95
2	SG Barnes	234	Aus	Eng	Sydney	1946	47
3	RB Simpson	311	Aus	Eng	Manchester	1964
4	Zaheer Abbas	274	Pak	Eng	Birmingham	1971
5	VG Kambli	224	Ind	Eng	Mumbai-WS	1992	93
6	KK Nair	303*	Ind	Eng	Chennai	2016	17

KK Nair became the second batsman to score 300 plus runs as his first century against England. Both the occasions are listed below.  Thus KK Nair emulated RB Simpson to score a triple century as his first century against England after 52 years

No	Batsman	Score	Team	Oppn	Ground	Season
1	RB Simpson	311	Aus	Eng	Manchester	1964
2	KK Nair	303*	Ind	Eng	Chennai	2016	17