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Slowest hundreds
Wisden CricInfo staff - October 4, 2001

duration name and match year
557 minutes Mudassar Nazar, Pakistan v England at Lahore 1977-78
545 minutes DJ McGlew, South Africa v Australia at Durban 1957-58
535 minutes AP Gurusinha, Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe at Harare 1994-95
516 minutes JJ Crowe, New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Colombo (CCC) 1986-87
500 minutes SV Manjrekar, India v Zimbabwe at Harare 1992-93
488 minutes PE Richardson, England v South Africa at Johannesburg 1956-57
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Notes: The slowest hundred for any Test in England is 458 minutes (329 balls) by KWR Fletcher, England v Pakistan, The Oval, 1974. The slowest double-hundred in a Test was scored in 777 minutes (548 balls) by DSBP Kuruppu for Sri Lanka v New Zealand at Colombo (CCC), 1986-87, on his debut. It is also the slowest-ever first-class double-hundred.

Updated to include matches finished by October 18, 2002

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