Fastest to 50, 100, 200 and 300

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

Fastest 100s

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

Research of the scorebook 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

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

Fastest 300s

Minutes 
181  DCS Compton (300)   MCC v N. E. Transvaal           Benoni        1948-49 
205  FE Woolley (305*)   MCC v Tasmania                  Hobart        1911-12 
205  CG Macartney (345)  Australians v Nottinghamshire   Nottingham    1921 
213  DG Bradman (369)    South Australia v Tasmania      Adelaide      1935-36