Most Innings Before First Duck: Individual Batting ODI Cricket Records and Statistics

There is no escaping the fact that England has recently become the hitters’ preferred nation to bat in when playing white-ball cricket. A country that has recently witnessed a lot of high-scoring games will inevitably turn into a batter’s haven. Consequently, it is reasonable to expect a high-scoring contest between two strong sides in England and India in the opening ODI of a summer series in England.

Innings	Player	Team	Span
105*	Kepler Wessels	Australia/ South Africa	1983–1994
72	Kumar Dharmasena	Sri Lanka	1994–2001
70	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies	1975–1986
70	Samiullah Shenwari	Afghanistan	2009–2019
68	Craig McMillan	New Zealand	1997–2001

However, the first ODI of the current English summer series was played in an unusual way. England’s batting performance in this one-day international was among their lowest since India’s captain Rohit Sharma chose to bowl first. By the ninth over of the game, the hosts had lost half of their lineup as wickets had begun to fall consistently. With bowling statistics of 5-2-9-4 in his first appearance, Jasprit Bumrah, who shared the new ball with Mohammed Shami, made life difficult for English batters.

In his first over by himself, Bumrah dismissed Joe Root (0), Jason Roy (0), and Liam Livingstone (0). In his third over, he then defeated Liam Livingstone (zero). Bumrah’s ability to continue preventing their top white-ball hitters from getting a run was the highlight of his performance today. Ben Stokes, an all-rounder for England, was the fourth player to not receive a start, joining these three others.

Today’s England innings, which had four ducks and a score of 110, has the most ducks of any ODI innings (their joint 11th lowest ODI score). Readers should be aware that four or five ducks have commonly occurred in ODI innings. The following five instances resulted in an inning with a maximum of six ducks.

These are the top 5 ODI players in terms of docks.

5. Rilee Rossouw

Rilee Rossouw, a top-order batsman from South Africa, has played for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL. Rossouw made his ODI debut for South Africa in 2014. Despite playing his first two ODI innings against the weaker Zimbabwean team, Rossouw recorded back-to-back ducks. In his debut game, he was thrown out. On the first pitch of the next game, Prosper Utseya dismissed him.

4. Kane Williamson

Kane Williamson is the current captain of the New Zealand cricket team. Under Williamson’s leadership, New Zealand has climbed to the top spot in the ICC Test Rankings. New Zealand finished second at the 2019 Cricket World Cup as well. Williamson’s career did not get off to a great start, despite the fact that many cricket fans consider him to be one of the sport’s top batsmen. In his first ODI innings, Kane faced India before being bowled out by Praveen Kumar for a duck. Williamson was bowled by Angelo Mathews of Sri Lanka in his second inning for his wicket.

3. Nathan McCullum

Another player from New Zealand on this list is the all-arounder Nathan McCullum. As many cricket fans are probably aware, Nathan is the brother of former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum. Nathan McCullum failed to score in each of his first two ODI innings and was shut out. Lasith Malinga clean bowled him with the opening ball of an ODI. In his subsequent inning against Pakistan, Shahid Afridi got him out LBW on the first pitch.

2. Shadab Kabir

A middle-order Pakistani batsman named Shadab Kabir made history by being out for a duck in each of his first three ODI innings. Anil Kumble ordered him back to the pavilion on the first ODI ball he faced against India. Kumble repeated the action, although on the second delivery, when Kabir batted for the third time in his ODI career.

1. Sachin Tendulkar

The “God of Cricket,” Sachin Tendulkar, established various records in one-day international cricket. In ODI cricket, Sachin currently holds the record for the most runs scored by a batsman. Tendulkar is the only player with 100 international hundreds. However, he had been out for a duck in each of his opening two ODI innings. Sachin was removed for 0 runs in each of his first two ODI innings by Waqar Younis of Pakistan and Shane Thomson of New Zealand. Sachin, however, overcame this rocky beginning to become one of the greatest players of all time.

In ODI cricket, the batters must hit the ball hard in the last overs since it can increase the score. However, in this article, we have concentrated on those five illustrious batters who were shut out in both of their opening ODI innings.