Records / First-class matches / Batting records / Fastest innings

Fastest fifties - in minutes

Player
CIJ Smith (66)	11	Middlesex v Gloucestershire	Bristol	1938
Khalid Mahmood (56)	13	Gujranwala v Sargodha	Gujranwala	2000-01
SJ Pegler (50)	14	South Africans v Tasmania	Launceston	1910-11
FT Mann (53)	14	Middlesx v Nottinghamshire	Lord's	1921
HB Cameron (56)	14	Transvaal v Orange Free State	Johannesberg	1934-35
CIJ Smith (52)	14	Middlesx v Kent	Maidstone	1935

Fastest hundreds - in minutes

Player
PGH Fender (113*)	35	Surrey v Northamptonshire	Northampton	1920
Gl Jessop (101)	40	Gloucestershire v Yorkshire	Harrogate	1897
Ahsan-ul-Haq (100*)	40	Muslims v Sikhs	Lahore	1923-24
GL Jessop (191)	42	Gentlemen of South v Players of South	Hastings	1907
AH Hornby (106)	43	Lancashire v Somerset	Manchester	1905
DW Hookes (107)	43	South Australia v Victoria	Adelaide	1982-83
RNS Hobbs (100)	44	Essex v Australians	Chelmsford	1975

Notes: The fastest recorded authentic hundred in terms of balls received was scored off 34 balls by D. W. Hookes (above).

Research of the score book has shown that PGH Fender scored his hundred from between 40 and 46 balls.He contributed 113 to an unfinished sixth-wicket partnership of 171 in 42 minutes with HA Peach.

EB Alletson (Nottinghamshire) scored 189 out of 227 runs in 90 minutes against Sussex at Hove in 1911. It has been estimated that his last 139 runs took 37 minutes.

The following fast hundreds were scored in contrived circumstances when full tosses, long hops etc were bowled deliberately to expedite a declaration: G Chapple (21 minutes), Lancashire v Glamorgan at Manchester, 1993; TM Moody (26 minutes), Warwickshire v Glamorgan at Swansea, 1990; SJ O'Shaughnessy (35 minutes), Lancashire v Leicestershire at Manchester, 1983; CM Old (37 minutes), Yorkshire v Warwickshire at Birmingham, 1977; NFM Popplewell (41 minutes), Somerset v Gloucestershire at Bath, 1983; MW Goodwin (25 minutes), Sussex v Middlesex, 2006, ML Pettini (24 minutes), Essex v Leicestershire, 2006.

Fastest 200s - in minutes

Player
RJ Shastri (200*)	113	Bombay v Baroda	Bombay	1984-85
GL Jessop (286)	120	Gloucesterhire v Sussex	Hove	1903
CH Lloyd (201*)	120	West Indies v Glamorgan	Swansea	1976
GL Jessop (234)	130	Gloucestershire v Somerset	Bristol	1905
VL Trumper (293)	131	Australians v Canterbury	Christchurch	1913-14

Fastest 300s - in minutes

Player
DS Compton (300)	181	MCC v North Eastern Transvaal	Benoni	1948-49
FE Wolley (305*)	205	MCC v Tasmania	Hobart	1911-12
CG Macartney (345)	205	Australians v Nottinghamshire	Nottingham	1921
DG Bradman (369)	213	South Australia v Tasmania	Adelaide	1935-36

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