Virender Sehwag became the first Indian to score 300 runs in a test innings as India posted a record 675 for five against Pakistan in the opening test yesterday.
The 25-year-old from Delhi hammered 39 fours and six sixes in his 309, the 18th triple-hundred in test history, facing 375 balls and batting for 531 minutes.
He reached the 300 landmark lofting off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq over mid-wicket for a six and celebrated by raising his arms and hugging Sachin Tendulkar, who added an unbeaten 194.
India's previous individual best score was 281 by Vangipurappu Laxman against Australia at Calcutta in 2001.
Pakistan, in reply, were 42 for no loss at close of the second day's play with Indian pacemen Irfan Pathan and Zaheer Khan also failing to make an impression on a flat wicket, devoid of grass.
The 30-year-old Tendulkar, playing his 112th match, moved to within a century of former India captain Sunil Gavaskar's world record of 34 when he clipped Abdul Razzaq for three runs to raise his 100 off 209 balls.
But Tendulkar was stranded just six short of a double-hundred when stand-in skipper Rahul Dravid declared after Yuvraj Singh fell for 59.
The total was India's highest against Pakistan, beating 539 for nine at Madras in 1961, and their third-highest overall.
Sehwag, on 228 overnight, started the day on-driving Mohammad Sami to the mid-wicket fence for four.
He then cut the pace bowler for another boundary later in the same over but played more sedately after raising his 250, off 199 balls and including 32 fours and five sixes.
Sehwag survived a half-chance on 274 when Taufeeq Umar at first slip got his fingertips to an edgy steer off Shabbir Ahmed but was unable to hold on.
He was lucky again later in the same over when Shabbir induced another edge but wicketkeeper Moin Khan dropped a difficult catch diving to his right.
Tendulkar, who faced 348 balls and cracked 21 boundaries, put on 336 for the third wicket with Sehwag, India's highest-ever partnership against Pakistan.
The previous record of 200 was jointly held by Gavaskar and Krishnamachari Srikkanth, for the first wicket at Madras in 1986-87, and by Ravi Shastri and Sandeep Patil, for the fifth at Faislabad in 1984-85.
Sehwag finally fell edging Sami to Taufeeq Umar in the slips.
Laxman was run out for 29 before Yuvraj, playing for injured captain Saurav Ganguly, struck his maiden test half-century in only his second match.
India are playing their first test on Pakistani soil in over 14 years.
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