Brijesh Patel
Brijesh Patel

Only twenty one players never let in their career “bird” ( duck) to seat on their scoring sheet. Yes, they are the only a few cricketers who played some Test matches and that helped them  to achieve a rare feat in cricket that is even Don Bradman and Sachin Tendulkar failed to achieve.

There are many astonishing records in cricket; one of whacking record is fewest duck in Test cricket. If any cricketer plays maximum number of match then there will be maximum chance of getting out scoring duck, but, if anybody plays less number of games then they have little chance of getting out scoring anything.  But, you can’t underestimate their records.

The record of not getting out scoring anything means batsman read the pitch well, and handle overcast situations (if any) in the morning well. If we look at the list of the cricketers, we will not a single player who has less than 20 average, and another interesting fact is this list has four players who has not scored centuries; although three them have 26 plus average.

In the history of Test cricket only 21 players have no duck in their career. This is indeed an achievement. In this list only six batsmen have forty plus average. Beside, none of these cricketers have played more than 24 matches. Only two from the current bunch of batsman feature this list. They are Chris Rogers and  Sarfraz Ahmed.  Herbie Collins of Australia and Raman Subba Row of England are the two batsmen who have astonishing average.

Here is that precise list:

Player Country Career Span Matches Innings Duck Runs Average 100s 50s
Jim Burke Australia 1951-1959 24 44 0 1280 34.59 3 5
Chris Rogers Australia 2008-2015 22* 42 0 1683 41.04 4 12
Reggie Duff Australia 1902-1905 22 40 0 1317 35.59 2 6
Brijesh Patel India 1974-1977 21 38 0 972 29.45 1 5
Robert Christiani West Indies 1948-1954 22 37 0 896 26.35 1 4
Dave Houghton Zimbabwe 1992-1997 22 36 0 1464 43.05 4 4
Waqar Hasan Pakistan 1952-1959 21 35 0 1071 31.50 1 6
Bernard Julien West Indies 1973-1977 24 34 0 866 30.92 2 3
Brendan Nash West Indies 2008-2011 21 33 0 1103 33.42 2 8
Billy Zulch South Africa 1910-1921 16 32 0 983 32.76 2 4
Herbie Collins Australia 1920-1926 19 31 0 1352 45.06 4 6
Sarfraz Ahmed Pakistan 2010-2015 18 31 0 1157 50.30 3 7
Walter Read England 1882-1893 18 31 0 720 27.69 1 5
Billy Bates England 1881-1887 15 26 0 656 27.33 0 5
Maurice Foster West Indies 1969-1978 14 24 0 580 30.52 1 1
Upul Chandana Sri Lanka 1999-2005 16 24 0 616 26.78 0 2
Tommy Andrews Australia 1921-1926 16 23 0 592 26.90 0 4
Raman Subba Row England 1958-1961 13 22 0 984 46.85 3 4
Matthew Wade Australia 2012-2013 12 22 0 623 34.61 2 3
Merv Wallace New Zealand 1937-1953 13 21 0 439 20.90 0 5
Jack Robertson England 1947-1952 11 21 0 881 46.36 2 6
Geoff Rabone New Zealand 1949-1955 12 20 0 562 31.22 1 2

Sudipta Biswas

Sports Crazy man, Live in cricket, Love writing, Studied English journalism in Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Chose sports as the subject for study, Born 24 years ago during the 1992 Cricket world...

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