First on Youtube! The full video! Adam Gilchrist blasts South Africa enroute to what was then the fastest double century and is still the 2nd fastest double hundred in test cricket after Nathan Astle's 222. Ben stokes 258
Gilchrist reached 200 with 19 fours and eight sixes in 212 balls.
When Steve Waugh called him in at the end of the over, he walked back to a rousing ovation from an otherwise infamously parochial crowd. It had been a breathtaking unbeaten 204 from 213 deliveries, one of the most audaciously aggressive innings ever witnessed in Test cricket.
Gilly almost hits the Go for Gold sign which would have won him 4.5 ounces of gold at the Wanderers Johannesburg. Includes Damien Martyn's 2 of the best cover drives you will ever see.!