Top 10 Fastest 200s in Test cricket

2. Ben Stokes v South Africa (2015) – 163 balls:

Ben Stokes walked in to bat when the team looked in trouble reeling at 167/4 on day one of the 2nd Test. He started well, got to his fifty and remained unbeaten on 74 at stumps. SA looked to clear them up early in the second day but Stokes came in with a counterattacking strategy and soon got to his 3rd Test hundred in 105 balls. He got more aggressive then on, scoring faster than run a ball and got to his first 150 in 135 balls. The Protea bowlers had little help from the surface while Stokes seemed to see the ball as big as a football; he kept playing his strokes, lofting, cutting and driving the ball to and over the fence.

A double ton soon looked in sight and the manner in which he was batting the fastest record was in reach as well, he hammed a Morne Morkel short ball for a four and with that jumped in joy for the second time in his knock, it took him 163 balls and though he missed the fastest record, scored the second fastest Test double century. He is going strong at the moment as the teams went off for lunch, batting unbeaten on 204 off 167 balls with as many as 26 boundaries and 7 sixes.