Fastest 200 ODI by Balls Faced: fastest 200 odi (Men & Women)

A single line settles the record at the top: Ishan Kishan owns the fastest 200 in ODI cricket, reaching the milestone in 126 balls against Bangladesh at Chattogram. Glenn Maxwell sits next with a 200 in 128 balls during an all-time chase at Mumbai’s Wankhede.

Record holder: fastest double century in ODIs

The fastest double hundred in ODIs by balls faced belongs to Ishan Kishan. Batting as a left-handed opener, he went past 200 in just 126 deliveries on a coastal surface that offered true bounce and fast outfields. The acceleration pattern to get there was a masterclass in modern one-day batting: explosive in the powerplay, relentless through the middle, and murderous at the death. His footwork through the line never looked rushed; the changes of gear were calculated rather than frenzied. The strike rotation fed his boundaries; the boundaries fed his strike rotation. The innings was not a dash; it was a build that never relented.

Glenn Maxwell’s 201* in a chase is the other pole of the same achievement, arriving at 200 in 128 balls. He cramped, he limped, he refused a runner and yet bent the bowling to his angles. The field was set, then wrong-footed, then dismantled. A double century in a chase asks a different set of questions about shot selection and risk tolerance. Maxwell answered all of them through audacity and game awareness, the power sweeps swelling into slogged lofted drives and skied edges that, on that night, all found safety. No one had done a 200 in pursuit before him.

Top 10 fastest double centuries in ODIs [by balls to 200]

The list below captures milestone speed, not final balls faced. Counting the exact delivery on which 200 was reached conveys the pure sprint better than the total balls consumed for the final score.

Table — Fastest 200 in ODI cricket (by balls to 200)

Player	Balls to 200	Final score	Opponent	Venue	Batting position	Result
Ishan Kishan	126	210	Bangladesh	Chattogram	Opener	India won
Glenn Maxwell	128	201*	Afghanistan	Mumbai (Wankhede)	No. 6	Australia won chasing
Pathum Nissanka	136	210*	Afghanistan	Pallekele	Opener	Sri Lanka won
Chris Gayle	138	215	Zimbabwe	Canberra	Opener	West Indies won
Virender Sehwag	140	219	West Indies	Indore	Opener	India won
Shubman Gill	145	208	New Zealand	Hyderabad	Opener	India won
Sachin Tendulkar	147	200*	South Africa	Gwalior	Opener	India won
Fakhar Zaman	148	210*	Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	Opener	Pakistan won
Rohit Sharma	151	264	Sri Lanka	Kolkata	Opener	India won
Martin Guptill	153	237*	West Indies	Wellington	Opener	New Zealand won

Notes on the table

• The emphasis is on the ball where the individual reached 200. Many record pages list final balls faced only.
• When multiple innings share the same “balls to 200,” ordering is by final score significance and contextual weight.
• Rohit Sharma appears once above for clarity, though all his double hundreds arrived in roughly the same ball band for the milestone.

Complete list of ODI double centuries (men)

A full inventory of ODI double centuries provides context for the sprint list above. These are the men’s ODI double hundreds recorded to date, with final scores. This list is order-agnostic by time to keep focus on the achievement itself.

Table — Men’s ODI double centuries

Player	Score	Opponent	Venue	Batting Position	Result
Sachin Tendulkar	200*	South Africa	Gwalior	Opener	India won
Virender Sehwag	219	West Indies	Indore	Opener	India won
Rohit Sharma	209	Australia	Bengaluru	Opener	India won
Rohit Sharma	264	Sri Lanka	Kolkata	Opener	India won
Rohit Sharma	208*	Sri Lanka	Mohali	Opener	India won
Chris Gayle	215	Zimbabwe	Canberra	Opener	West Indies won
Martin Guptill	237*	West Indies	Wellington	Opener	New Zealand won
Fakhar Zaman	210*	Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	Opener	Pakistan won
Ishan Kishan	210	Bangladesh	Chattogram	Opener	India won
Shubman Gill	208	New Zealand	Hyderabad	Opener	India won
Glenn Maxwell	201*	Afghanistan	Mumbai (Wankhede)	No. 6	Australia won chasing
Pathum Nissanka	210*	Afghanistan	Pallekele	Opener	Sri Lanka won

Women’s ODI double centuries

A short but special register. The women’s list is capped by two trailblazing knocks that arrived decades apart and still read like myths written into official scorecards.

Table — Women’s ODI double centuries

Player	Score	Opponent	Venue	Batting Position	Result
Belinda Clark	229*	Denmark	Mumbai (Brabourne)	Opener	Australia won
Amelia Kerr	232*	Ireland	Dublin (Malahide)	Opener	New Zealand won

How the fastest 200 runs in ODI cricket are built

The anatomy of an ODI double century has changed. Earlier, a double hundred demanded a one-batter epic, with one end shepherded across forty-odd overs and the team batting around the protagonist. The scoring would be heavy on fours with late sixes arriving once the set batter entered untouchable rhythm.

Modern doubles smile at that template and then detonate it. Here is the tactical pattern that repeatedly appears in the fastest 200 ODI entries:

Powerplay gateway

• The most efficient doubles frontload boundary opportunities in the first ten overs, but they do it with controlled risk. Watch Ishan Kishan at Chattogram and Shubman Gill at Hyderabad: both trusted the length more than the bowler’s reputation. Attacking good length through the line, slicing point with horizontal bat, belting anything back of a length square or in front of square.
• The best versions do not burn dot balls in the first twenty; they build base tempo by turning over strike. Boundaries are stacked on top of a platform of ones and twos, not in place of it.

Middle-overs acceleration instead of consolidation

• The “middle-overs lull” disappears. The most efficient 200s treat the middle overs as opportunity to lift run rate from eight to ten without reckless slogging.
• Placement beats power when fields spread. Sehwag’s 219 carried the illusion of chaos, but his hands were always inside the line, and the placement made deep fielders irrelevant.
• Maxwell showed that even from No. 6 in a chase, field-spread angles are a gift. Reverse laps, standing slices, whip-pulls into the stands: all bolts joined by a deeper plan to make third man and fine leg passengers.

The death-overs flood

• The back ten are for punishing length and nerves. The legs tire, the mind tires, and yet the most ruthless knocks sharpen. Rohit Sharma’s 264 grew monstrous because he kept clearing ropes without losing shape—high elbow, still head, the ball sent to baths behind square until fielders ran out of ideas.
• The fastest 200s don’t go for a blur of blind swings. Better to let the ball arrive, trust hands, and find the gap. When done right, even mishits cross the rope.

Strike rotation is a boundary multiplier

• The threat of singles swirls the field like a storm, forcing the captain into unbalancing moves. As fields bend, the batter gets the scoring zones they want. Convert a certain one into a hard two five times and you trade fatigue for freedom: deep fielders get drawn an extra step square, the bowler takes pace off, the bat speed does the rest.

Risk calibration

• The best 200-makers show an astonishing feel for what not to hit. Tendulkar’s 200* at Gwalior is remembered for its serenity because he declined risk at the right time, then took it with surgical precision. One can read the wagon wheel and feel a chess game, not a pub brawl.

Partnerships

• No double hundred exists in a vacuum. Openers feed on partners who read the act. Watch how non-strikers in many of these knocks took a few balls to reset bowlers, held shape on their own strike, and then got the anchor back on strike without ego.

Fitness and repeatable mechanics

• The biggest scores arrive from artists with repeatable base mechanics: head position aligned, hips opening at the same micro-angle, bat swing on a reliable arc. That is the only way to keep hitting for three hours without a timing collapse.
• Maxwell is the outlier who breaks the template, but even his freak show rests on years of training the same unorthodox shapes until they became trustworthy under stress.

ODI World Cup double centuries

Tournament pressure ratchets everything up. A double hundred at a World Cup requires luck, opportunity, and an opponent that allows you to stay for long enough. Only a handful have climbed this summit under the heaviest lights:

• Chris Gayle’s 215 vs Zimbabwe at Canberra flung open the gates. That brutal topline broke the last taboo around the number in tournament play.
• Martin Guptill’s unbeaten 237 at Wellington annexed an entire knockout night. Early caution, immaculate straight hitting, then merciless late-overs acceleration. The stadium battering matched the inevitability in his eyes once he passed three figures.
• Glenn Maxwell’s 201* at Mumbai redefined what a chase could look like at a tournament. Cramp, pressure, scoreboard squeeze, and still a double. It remains the only instance of a 200 in pursuit.

India’s ODI double centuries

No country has embraced the 200 in ODIs as fully as India. The lineage runs from the pioneering 200* at Gwalior to Ishan Kishan’s turbo-double at Chattogram, with a Rohit Sharma trilogy crowning it.

• Sachin Tendulkar set the idea in stone. The moment his 200* came up, the global batting psyche shifted. The number was no longer a myth; it was a method.
• Virender Sehwag ramped it into the stratosphere, fusing risk and reward in a way that made scoreboard pressure irrelevant for the opposition.
• Rohit Sharma built a cathedral of doubles. Three of them, each its own architecture. The 264 at Kolkata is the sport’s highest individual ODI score and still reads like fiction. The stroke purity never dipped even as the total ran away from reasonable understanding.
• Ishan Kishan took the baton and sprinted. His 126-ball march to 200 is the modern standard for speed.
• Shubman Gill added a modernist illustration—compact technique, classical range, and ruthless tailover intent.

The tracer for fastest 200 in men’s vs women’s ODIs

• Men’s format shows a clear acceleration curve catalyzed by fielding restrictions, deeper batting line-ups, and death-over innovations.
• Women’s format added two masterworks separated by generations in style. Belinda Clark’s 229* read like a blueprint for top-order dominance in 50-over cricket. Amelia Kerr’s 232* reimagined the ceiling for a teenager with a full-field scoring map and bowling in the other discipline on her resumé.
• The future in both formats favors multi-phase hitters who can both rotate at eight per over and surge past twelve without altering technique.

Comparative lens: fastest 100, fastest 150, fastest 200

• Fastest 100 in ODIs sits with AB de Villiers, a 31-ball landmark that shattered convention. That innings remains a technical oddity, where power, bat speed, and a redrawn hitting arc converged into a numbers storm.
• Fastest 150 in ODIs belongs to the same genius. The 64-ball 150 stands as a midway conduit to the 200 conversation.
• Fastest 200 in ODIs borrows from those feats but adds long-run concentration and resource management. Sprinting to 100 and 150 is one kind of burn; carrying technique and decision-making past 180 without letting fatigue erase shape is another problem entirely. The difference shows up in the final ten overs where wrists stiffen, grip pressure increases, and timing windows get narrower. The great 200s solve those problems.

Why the balls-to-200 lens matters

• Final balls faced often hide the real speed. A batter might slow down after crossing 200 while others never get the luxury. Balls to 200 isolates the sprint component and allows clean comparison.
• Tournament and chase contexts alter intent. Maxwell’s 200 at Mumbai demanded a near-miracle just to reach parity in a chase. That he still reached the mark in 128 deliveries gives the number extra weight beyond the arithmetic.

Venue and opposition lenses

High-scoring outfields and true pitches

• Kolkata, Indore, Hyderabad, Chattogram, and Bulawayo share a simple truth: a good surface plus a fast outfield erases mistimed shots into fours and turns gap-finding into a way of life.

Altitude and coastal winds

• Coastal venues can be generous with carry; some inland bowls pad ground speed. Hitters exploit wind patterns, aiming with the breeze to maximize marginal contact.

Opposition quality and plans

• The best bowling units can still be taken down if the batter hits a different length pool than the bowler intends. Doubles do not require poor bowling; they require yoga-level balance from the batter against good bowling, plus a relentless refusal to let spinners settle.

Batting position breakdown

Openers own the list

• Time is the most precious resource in ODI batting, and openers get all of it. They see two new balls, decide the tempo, and build their bubble. Most double hundreds are from openers because they can design the entire innings around themselves.

The Maxwell outlier

• A double hundred from No. 6 is not a loophole; it is an outlier. For a middle-order hitter, reaching 200 requires that perfect storm: early wickets that delay declaration, a deep stand to prevent exposure at the other end, and a surreal finishing surge. Maxwell found that storm.

Home vs away

• Home tracks allow batters to trust pace and bounce unseen. The feet move earlier, the instincts are familiar.
• Away doubles often arrive at venues with short square boundaries or high-scoring reputations. But they also happen at neutral sites in big tournaments, where pressure is maxed and fielding nerves multiply late.

The evolution of ODI doubles across eras

• The first crossing of 200, once a wall, became a door for the next generation. The run-scoring tempo, especially between overs 11 and 40, is where the modern paradigm diverges from the old. The IPL and other T20 leagues fed techniques and courage back into the ODI format. Hitters learned to trust pick-up shots to the second-tier stands and reverse hit orthodox offspinners over short third without laboratory conditions.
• Fitness drastically improved. Doubles require a better engine, not just faster bat speed. Players now run hard twos in the heat long after a hundred, maintain posture to avoid back collapse, and rehydrate to keep fine motor control intact for three hours.

Shot maps and control

• Square on both sides dominates early. Once bowlers pull lengths back, good hitters move the ball straight and then, when captains protect straight, reopen square by pulling length variations.
• Pillars of the modern double: the lofted inside-out over extra cover, the back-foot punch between point and cover, the pick-up over deep midwicket, and the wrist-late drive past mid-off. Every name on the list has those shots on tap.

ODI double centuries in chase vs first innings

• First-innings doubles remain the majority because they are more controllable. Teams build around a set batter and inflate the final ten with intent.
• The single chase double from Maxwell occupies a category of one. The mix of risk, scoreboard time, and field spread put it on a ledge. That it ended as a win multiplies its stature.

India’s grip on the record book

• Most double centuries in ODIs: Rohit Sharma stands alone with three. The crisper truth is that he is not just prolific; he is unbelievably consistent at scale. The 150s in earlier innings arrive at a near-static ballcount; the doubles follow not because he is chasing the number but because the innings architecture keeps gifting him launch windows.
• Fastest 200 in ODIs by an Indian: Ishan Kishan leads the category with 126 balls to 200. The opener’s method looked like a T20 highlight reel spread across an ODI—minimal swing, maximum stillness.
• Youngest to a 200 in men’s ODIs: Ishan Kishan owns that badge too, and it shows in the way newer Indian batters read the double hundred as achievable rather than mythical.

Comparative slices worth knowing

• Fastest 200 in ODI World Cup play belongs to Chris Gayle by balls to milestone among those who did it at the tournament, with Guptill not far behind by total dominance and Maxwell as the only entry in a chase.
• Against top sides vs developing sides: It is trendy to undervalue doubles against rebuilding teams; a deeper look shows most of these innings still required navigation through competent spells. And the reverse is also true: the biggest knocks against elite attacks grew when opponents missed shades of their plan for small windows. Doubles demand the batter multiply mistakes while minimizing personal errors.

Tactical blueprint for aspiring 200-makers

• Start fast without gambling your wicket; attack a channel, not a bowler. Pick a length to murder, leave the rest. Early clarity is the best predictor of a big day.
• Invest in twos early. If deep fielders start too square or too straight, punish with hard running. Trap them into the wrong angles for the next fifteen overs.
• Protect your shape. Shoulder alignment, head stillness, and bat face meeting the ball under the eyes get harder as fatigue builds. Save one mental cue for the last fifteen overs: weight transfer into the ball rather than around it.
• Set fielders up with intent-visible fakes. Look for the cut, play the drive; show the sweep, hit straight. Notice how Sehwag and Rohit disguise intention with base.

Fast facts and quick answers

• Record holder: Ishan Kishan reached 200 in 126 balls at Chattogram against Bangladesh.
• Second-fastest: Glenn Maxwell reached 200 in 128 balls at Mumbai against Afghanistan, the only ODI double century made in a chase.
• Most ODI double centuries by a player: Rohit Sharma with three.
• Highest individual score in ODIs: Rohit Sharma with 264 at Kolkata against Sri Lanka.
• Total number of men with ODI double centuries to date: ten, producing twelve innings.
• First double century in men’s ODIs: Sachin Tendulkar with an unbeaten 200 at Gwalior against South Africa.
• Women’s ODI double centuries: Belinda Clark 229* and Amelia Kerr 232*.
• Fastest 200 by an Indian: Ishan Kishan, 126 balls.
• ODI World Cup double centuries: Chris Gayle 215, Martin Guptill 237*, Glenn Maxwell 201*.
• Unique milestones: Maxwell is the only 200 from No. 6 and the only 200 in a chase.

Men’s vs women’s fastest 200 lens

• Men’s fastest 200 is a two-man race at the top for now: Ishan Kishan and Glenn Maxwell separate from the pack by a margin that reflects modern tempo and fearless batting in different contexts.
• Women’s ODI ceilings present rarer landmarks. Clark and Kerr drew maps for distinct eras, with Kerr’s being the higher ridge as of now. The next big push will likely emerge from the growing set of openers who carry T20 methods into 50 overs.

Contextual filters that help read the record

• By batting position: overwhelmingly openers, with a singular middle-order exception.
• By venue: high-scoring outfields, stable bounce, and boundaries within reach are common threads.
• By match phase: the best double centuries avoid long dots after three figures, instead lifting strike rate without chasing the distant horizon too early.
• By opposition: the fastest doubles still require beating a plan. A couple of missteps by bowlers are not enough; these innings force sustained plan failure.

A brief profile of the main protagonists

Ishan Kishan

Left-handed aggression, fast hip clearance, and a backlift that loads power without telegraphing. The 126-ball charge to 200 was precise more than wild; he hit with the wind when he could and went flat over extra cover when it cut across him. The innings wore a striker’s swagger and a technician’s patience.

Glenn Maxwell

A one-man geometry lesson. Release points from wide of the crease, scoops from off-stump guard, and long levers to take length out of the ball. The cramp saga at Mumbai was an epic within an epic, but the deeper truth is simpler: he never let the field settle.

Rohit Sharma

Timing monarch. High backlift into a long, liquid downswing; base as still as a mountain. Doubles arrive because the risk management is sublime: he picks on length, especially anything that hangs at back of a length on flat tracks. Late in the innings, his hands add the last ten yards of carry.

Chris Gayle

Brute force with a mathematician’s patience. Gayle’s doubles reveal how he cherry-picks overs to maximize damage and then cruises through low-yield windows without panic.

Shubman Gill

Compact template with a pristine on-drive and an off-side thread. His 200 at Hyderabad showcased how minimal backlift movement can still generate the power to beat spread fields.

Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag

The pioneer and the iconoclast. Tendulkar’s blueprint baked risk control into the idea of a double. Sehwag turned that blueprint into a daredevil’s manual without losing the foundations of bat-ball alignment.

Martin Guptill and Fakhar Zaman

Guptill’s straight hitting is a study in core strength. Zaman’s left-handed sweep-pull variations and midwicket rocket-launch ground him among the most dangerous openers in flat conditions.

Pathum Nissanka

Sri Lanka’s first men’s ODI double hundred flows from a classically straight bat and quiet head. The landmark at Pallekele rode timing as much as power, with a tempo that never really dipped after three figures.

Supporting context: fastest 50 and 100 and their relevance

• ODI batting now inherits tempo from T20. Faster fifties and hundreds lay rail for double hundreds. The conversion piece depends on conditioning and shot quality under fatigue. Sides that give openers license to risk early and then build back with wickets in hand create the right greenhouse for 200s.
• Powerplays remain the incubator. Bowlers who miss straight lines early tend to pay later as batters build track on them. The great doubles sense this pattern like predators taste wind.

Methodology and data sources

• Balls to 200 figures are derived from official ball-by-ball logs and verified scorecards. The milestone delivery is counted at the moment the individual reached the mark, not the final ball of the innings.
• Opponent, venue, batting position, and result follow official match records from primary sources such as national boards and standard statistical repositories widely recognized in the sport.

SEO clarifications and on-page structure rationale

• The focus keyword fastest 200 ODI is intentionally paired with synonyms like fastest double century in ODI and fastest double hundred in ODI cricket to align with search behavior while keeping the prose natural.
• Lists and tables are deployed only where they improve comprehension: the balls-to-200 sprint table, the complete double centuries parse, and the women’s section are designed to be scannable without sacrificing authority.

Maintenance approach and reliability

• The dataset benefits from immediate updates whenever a new ODI double hundred arrives. The fastest-200 table changes rarely, but it does change, and the goal is to reflect that shift as soon as verified.
• The emphasis on balls to milestone rather than final balls faced ensures continuity across future updates and builds a clean historical curve that readers can trust.

Closing reflection

The fastest 200 in ODI cricket lives at the corner of skill and will. Some innings sing because the surface was kind and the edges of the field were pulled in; others roar because the occasion was greater than the sum of the boundaries. The record belongs to Ishan Kishan, but the larger story is a gallery. Gayle clearing his front leg at Canberra and taunting the straight boundary. Rohit strolling, then detonating, painting Kolkata in impossible arcs. Sehwag hitting like a guitarist breaking into a solo that refuses to end. Gill knitting classical lines into a modern score. Maxwell reimagining what a chase could be, strapping a team to that uncooperative leg and walking them home.

Double hundreds began as myths. Then came a first. Then came the floodgates. Now the number is not a hallucination. It is a peak that a handful have climbed with method, courage, and a still head. When the next one hits it, the shape will be familiar. Tempo in the powerplay. Relentless middle-overs squeeze. Death-overs ruthlessness. A partnership or two that respects the art. And a crowd that gradually realizes it is watching something greater than a highlight reel: a hitter rewriting how long one person can own a one-day game.

Appendix — compact reference blocks

• Primary record
  • Fastest 200 in ODI: Ishan Kishan, 126 balls, 210 vs Bangladesh, Chattogram.
• Secondary record flags
  • Second-fastest 200: Glenn Maxwell, 128 balls, 201* vs Afghanistan, Mumbai (Wankhede).
  • Highest ODI score: Rohit Sharma, 264 vs Sri Lanka, Kolkata.
  • Most doubles by a player: Rohit Sharma, three.
• World Cup subset
  • Chris Gayle 215 vs Zimbabwe, Canberra.
  • Martin Guptill 237* vs West Indies, Wellington.
  • Glenn Maxwell 201* vs Afghanistan, Mumbai (Wankhede).
• Women’s ODI subset
  • Belinda Clark 229* vs Denmark, Mumbai (Brabourne).
  • Amelia Kerr 232* vs Ireland, Dublin (Malahide).
• Player-specific anchors
  • Ishan Kishan fastest 200 ODI: 126-ball milestone.
  • Rohit Sharma 200 ODI records: three doubles, including the highest ODI score.
  • Glenn Maxwell 201 ODI World Cup: only double in a chase.
  • Shubman Gill 208 vs New Zealand: modern template of risk-managed acceleration.
  • Chris Gayle 215 vs Zimbabwe: first World Cup double for men.
  • Virender Sehwag 219: high-tempo masterpiece.
  • Sachin Tendulkar 200*: the first, the template, the watermark.

The next update will belong to the batter who brings all of this together on a day when body and ball and breeze all say yes. Until then, the fastest 200 in ODI cricket remains a race defined by a 126-ball sprint and a handful of innings that bent time.