India, Sept. 13 -- "Nothing wrong with going back to basics. Sometimes it's necessary; never too proud. Started humble, will end that way."

Those were the words Salman Ali Agha's wife shared on Instagram when he brought up his double-century in the President's Trophy for Kingsmen Academy. It was not a long message, but it said enough. In a few lines, it captured the mood around a player who had gone from the Pakistan Test set-up back to domestic cricket in a matter of days, and who has now answered that setback with the biggest innings of his first-class career - a triple-century.

There are domestic hundreds, there are comeback hundreds, and then there are innings that feel like a statement. Salman's knock belongs firmly in the last cat...