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Cricket News: Which team has the most ducks in a single Test innings? List of most ducks in a single Test innings
Bangladesh was bundled for 109 in the first innings of their opening test vs West Indies in Antigua. More glaringly, as many as six batsmen from the team were dismissed for a duck. Shakib Al Hasan would have surely envisioned a better start to his captaincy tenure, but it wasn’t to be.
In fact, Shakib along with opener Tamim Iqbal were the only ones who provided some resistance with their scores of 51 and 29 respectively. However, this game presented Cricblog an opportunity to go down the memory lane and explore instances when the most ducks were recorded by a team in a Test innings. Interestingly, there have been multiple occasions when six players of a side have gotten out for a nought!
There have been five instances of an innings consisting of six ducks since 2000. Bangladesh have been involved in three of them.
Most ducks in a Test innings since 2000
Bangladesh vs West Indies, Antigua, 2022
Bangladesh looked absolutely out of sorts on the opening day of the test in Antigua. Kemar Roach, Jayden Seales and Alzarri Joseph tormented the visitors with the new Duke’s ball. Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Mominul Haque, Nurul Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman and Khaled Ahmed were sent packing for a duck as West Indies managed to wrap up the entire innings in 35.2 overs itself.
Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka, Mirpur, 2022
More embarrassingly, Bangladesh had actually recorded such a dismal feat just last month in the first innings of their test vs Sri Lanka in Mirpur. Kasun Rajitha and Asitha Fernando had shared the spoils and picked nine wickets between them. However, Bangladesh had managed to get to 365 in that innings due to a mammoth 175 from Mushfiqur Rahim and 141 runs by Litton Das. Sri Lanka eventually ended up winning that game by 10 wickets.
New Zealand vs Pakistan, Dubai, 2018
New Zealand were stuck in a similar situation in 2018 as Bangladesh are today. The Kiwis could put up only 90 runs in their first innings of the second test in Dubai in response to Pakistan’s 418. Ross Taylor, Henry Nicholls, Colin de Grandhomme, Ish Sodhi, Neil Wagner and Trent Boult got out for a duck. Yasir Shah dismissed five of them en route to his record eight-wicket haul to steer Pakistan to a memorable victory in that game.
India vs England, Manchester, 2014
India and England were tied at 1-1 whilst heading into the fourth game of their five-match Test series in 2014. However, MS Dhoni’s men were blown away by the ageless duo of James Anderson and Stuart Broad and the team put up only 152 runs in the first innings. Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Pankaj Singh were dismissed for a duck. Anderson and Broad scalped three each amongst these six wickets to ensure that England took a 2-1 lead getting into the final game of the series.
Bangladesh vs West Indies, Dhaka, 2002
It must be a concerning sign for Bangladesh cricket that their test credentials haven’t arguably improved well enough in the last two decades. Back in 2002, a fierce West Indian bowling attack had bowled Bangladesh out for 87 in the second innings of their test in Dhaka.
Mohammed Ashraful, Alok Kapali, Khaled Mashud, Enamul Haque, Tapash Baisya and Talha Jubair were the ones who didn’t trouble the scorers in their way back to the dressing room. Jermaine Lawson and Vasbert Drakes took six and three wickets respectively to help West Indies win the test by a whopping margin of an innings and 310 runs.
