Team India etched their names in the history books as they not one, not two, but three batting records in the ongoing India vs Bangladesh Test at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur. Team India recorded the fastest team fifty on Day 4 of the IND vs BAN Kanpur Test and then went on to record the fastest team hundred minutes later.
After bowling out Bangladesh for 233 in 72.2 overs on Day 4, Indian openers Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal played aggressive shots from the word go. Rohit and Jaiswal powered India past the 50-run mark in just three overs, setting a new record for the fastest team fifty in Test cricket history, since data collection began.
India surpassed England’s record of the fastest team fifty in Tests which they recorded earlier in the Test against West Indies at Trent Bridge where they went past the 50-run mark in just 26 balls.
Here’s the list of fastest team fifties in the history of men’s Test cricket:
1- 10.1 overs - India vs Bangladesh, Kanpur 2024
2- 12.2 overs - India vs West Indies, Port of Spain 2023
3-13.1 overs - Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh, Colombo SSC 2001
4-13.4 overs - Bangladesh vs West Indies, Mirpur 2012
5- 13.4 overs - England vs Pakistan, Karachi 2022
6- 13.4 overs - England vs Pakistan, Rawalpindi 2022
7- 13.6 overs - Australia vs India, Perth 2012
Later in the IND vs BAN Kanpur Test, Team India shattered the record for the fastest 150 in Test cricket history, achieving the milestone in just 18.2 overs. They surpassed their own previous best of 21.1 overs, set against the West Indies in the Port of Spain match, in 2023.
