Quiz! Who has the most ducks in men’s Test cricket?

The term “duck” is probably derived from “duck’s egg”, which bears a similarity to the number zero. When the prince of Wales fell without scoring on July 17, 1866, a contemporary newspaper reported that he “retired to the royal pavilion on a duck’s egg”. The fate has not escaped even the greatest of batters, most famously Don Bradman, whose last-innings duck denied him a career batting average of a perfect 100.

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The term has variants. A first-ball duck, for example, is called a golden duck; add one more ball and it becomes a silver duck; and if you get out without facing a ball, they call it a diamond duck. Two ducks in the same match make a pair, while two golden ducks make a royal (or king’s) pair. And so on.

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In this quiz, you have to list every batter with 20 ducks in men’s Test cricket until April 7, 2025. While most of these are tail-enders, you may find the occasional all-rounder or even specialist batter. You have six minutes.

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Quiz! Who has the most ducks in men’s Test cricket?

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