Greatest 0's of All Time

[grecian]

Think it was so obvious everybody was skirting around it. At least I was.

greatest, not most infamous, historic, memorable, etc which lets face it Don wins.

 

[grecian]

Fair enough; serves me right for not checking. Perhaps it all felt inevitable when we were already 4-0 down. Agnew vs. any of those guys rather sums it up. I remember Marshall being astonishingly fast. We couldn't see his deliveries at all, and only knew where they had gone by seeing where Po**** had been hit. Perhaps the happiest outcome for Po**** was that he stayed in the squad for the winter tour of India where he did well enough and we won.

I was excluded from school in the Summer of '84: which I remember being a sunny one; advise youngsters to do the same; so remember so much of this series vividly Terry, Lloyds injuries the relentlessness of the Windies bowling, Marshall, Garner, Holdings relentless brilliance flashing stroke play of their bats, but I honestly don't remember much of this test, maybe I'd given up by then. You were right despite our good start it seemed inevitable what followed.

 

[Line and Length]

Surprised that no-one's mentioned Bradman's final test innings.

Was thinking much the same.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

One that I remember most (it's not famous at all) was Alan Ward in 1976 against the West Indies. We needed 250 odd to win and were 150 odd for 8. He stuck around and added nearly 50 with Greig without scoring himself and just for a brief second the impossible was on (impossible in those days - not quite so today).

 

[Burgey]

Not sure if it’s been mentioned but didn’t Godfrey Evans make a 90 minute plus duck back in the day?

 

[Howe_zat]

I ran a statsguru earlier and the longest ducks are still under an hour in tests, but he could have done it in county cricket.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Evans was on nought for over 90 minutes but didn’t end up being out for a duck.

 

[srbhkshk]

I ran a statsguru earlier and the longest ducks are still under an hour in tests, but he could have done it in county cricket.

It shows 4 1 hour+ ones to me.

Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com

stats.espncricinfo.com

 

[h_hurricane]

On a different note, the most famous zero could be the mighty Don's duck in his last test innings. It may not be the greatest but quite possibly the most talked about.

Some of the other less known zeroes.

Garry Sobers had a duck in his only ODI match.

Tendulkar scored ducks in his first 2 ODI innings.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Tendulkar scored ducks in his first 2 ODI innings.

Williamson did too.

 

[Bijed]

On a different note, the most famous zero could be the mighty Don's duck in his last test innings. It may not be the greatest but quite possibly the most talked about.

Some of the other less known zeroes.

Garry Sobers had a duck in his only ODI match.

Tendulkar scored ducks in his first 2 ODI innings.

In a similar vein, Marvan Atapattu's five ducks in his first six test innings (with the other score being 1)

 

[chris.hinton]

The number of tests england has won in Australia since 2010, or SL has won here ever.

Number of Ashes series wins in England by Australia since 2001

 

[Burgey]

Won the Ashes in england last year uimm

 

[Burgey]

And by won, I obviously mean hit more boundaries

 

[TheJediBrah]

Surprised that no-one's mentioned Bradman's final test innings.

Was it the best though? or just the greatest? need to check with @cricketsavant

 

[cricketsavant]

Was it the best though? or just the greatest? need to check with @cricketsavant

The greatest, in sport, is indeed, the best. I hope you have been educated now my little star wars friend

 

[TheJediBrah]

thank you. I understand now, Master