• Hall of Fame – 1946 to 1970

    The centuries below were the fastest scored during the period between the Second World War and 1970, when the Trophy was either not presented (1946-1965), or presented for the fastest century in Test Cricket (1966-1970):

    1946
    1947
    1948
    1949
    1950
    1951
    1952
    1953
    1954
    1955
    1956
    1957
    1958
    1959
    1960
    1961
    1962
    1963
    1964
    1965=
    1965=
    1966
    1967
    1968
    1969
    1970
    R W V Robins
    F R Brown
    R Smith
    C J Poole
    E de C Weekes
    R Smith
    C Griffiths
    G E Tribe
    G M Emmett
    R Smith
    A C Walton
    R E Marshall
    A C D Ingleby-Mackenzie
    J M Parks
    R A McLean
    R M Prideaux
    R C White
    W W Hall
    M D Willett
    J M Parks
    R E Marshall
    C Milburn
    Majid Jahangir Khan
    G St A Sobers
    R G Pollock
    P T Marner
    MCC v Yorkshire at Scarborough
    South v North at Scarborough
    Essex v Derbyshire at Colchester
    Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire at Nottingham
    West Indians v Leicestershire at Leicester
    Essex v South Africans at Ilford
    Essex v Kent at Tunbridge Wells
    Rest of England v South at Hastings
    Gloucestershire v Somerset at Taunton
    Essex v Northamptonshire at Wellingborough
    Oxford University v Sussex at Oxford
    Hampshire v Kent at Southampton
    Hampshire v Somerset at Bournemouth
    Sussex v Lancashire at Manchester
    South Africans v A E R Gilligan’s XI at Hastings
    South v North at Blackheath
    Gloucestershire v Nottinghamshire at Cheltenham
    West Indians v Cambridge University at Cambridge
    Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval
    Sussex v Leicestershire at Hove
    Hampshire v Oxford University at Oxford
    Northamptonshire v Nottinghamshire at Nottingham
    Pakistan v Glamorgan at Swansea
    Nottinghamshire v Kent at Dover
    International Cavaliers v Barbados at Scarborough
    Leicestershire v Yorkshire at Sheffield
    80 minutes
    60 minutes
    63 minutes
    80 minutes
    65 minutes
    70 minutes
    90 minutes
    75 minutes
    84 minutes
    73 minutes
    61 minutes
    66 minutes
    61 minutes
    61 minutes
    76 minutes
    52 minutes
    68 minutes
    65 minutes
    80 minutes
    102 minutes
    102 minutes
    82 minutes
    61 minutes
    77 minutes
    52 minutes
    69 minutes



    In 2005, Certificates were commissioned, with the permission of the ECB, to mark the achievements of the batsmen who made their fastest centuries during the years 1946-1965 when the Trophy was not presented.

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