ODI World Cup History: Openers with most duck dismissals
Some exceptional batters have broken into record books with this infamous feat.
1. Nathan Astle (NZ)- 5 Ducks
Nathan Astle was one of the finest openers to play the game of cricket. The star right-handed batter played for New Zealand for 12 years from 1995 to 2007. In One-Day Internationals (ODIs), he is the fourth leading run-getter with 7090 runs with 16 tons and 41 fifties in 217 innings of 223 matches.
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However, his record is ordinary in the World Cup. In 22 matches in the tournament, he has scored only 403 runs with two centuries and a fifty. He is also the batter who has the most ducks in the World Cup, along with Pakistan’s Ijaz Ahmed. In 1996, Astle made his World Cup debut with a century against England in Ahmedabad.
In the next game against the Netherlands, he got dismissed on a duck, and from there he failed to score in double-digit again in the competition. Astle appeared for the last time in the World Cup in 2003 and this time, he accumulated three ducks in the competition.
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