Since the inception of ODI cricket way back in 1971, over thousands of cricketers made their debut and has been a part of the game. There are some batsmen who managed to cross the 10000 run barrier, score tons and tons of centuries. But only a few managed to be consistent throughout their career. And there are some players like Sanath Jayasuriya, Shahid Afridi who managed to have a dubious record of getting out without opening their account for the most number of times in ODI cricket. There are also cricketers who are quite consistent in their approach, play some sensible cricket and rarely gets out for a duck. Here we bring you the list of batsmen to have got out for least number of ducks/ No ducks in their International career with a minimum of 40 innings under their belt.
Australian and South African batsman Kepler Wessels leads the list without scoring a duck in his entire ODI career that spanned for 11 years and 109 matches. Former Indian batsman Yashpal Sharma and South African Peter Kirsten joins Wessels in the elite list of batsmen who completed their careers without scoring a duck.
Next in the list is the current South African T20 skipper Faf du Plessis who has managed to score a run in the 50 ODI innings (100 International innings) he played till now. It’s a long way for Faf to match Wessels’ record but he deserved to be in the list as none of the current players managed to achieve the record.
Here is the list of few cricketers who got out for duck at most twice in their career.
|
S. No |
Name |
Country |
No. of innings played |
Number of ducks scored |
|
1 |
80 |
1 |
||
|
2 |
70 |
1 |
||
|
3 |
New Zealand |
69 |
1 |
|
|
4 |
65 |
1 |
||
|
5 |
Australia |
61 |
2 |
|
|
6 |
87 |
2 |
||
|
7 |
83 |
2 |
||
|
8 |
81 |
2 |
||
|
9 |
75 |
2 |
||
|
10 |
South Africa |
71 |
2 |
|
|
11 |
71 |
2 |
||
|
12 |
Sri Lanka |
69 |
2 |
|
|
13 |
60 |
2 |
||
|
14 |
Pakistan |
60 |
2 |
|
|
15 |
59 |
2 |
||
|
16 |
56 |
2 |
||
|
17 |
South Africa |
55 |
2 |
|
|
18 |
New Zealand |
52 |
2 |
|
|
19 |
Australia |
51 |
2 |
|
|
20 |
South Africa |
50 |
2 |