There are 9 different kinds of ducks in cricket, the meaning of duck is when a batsman gets dismissed without scoring a single run on the pitch. It’s considered an unfortunate event as the primary goal of a batsman is to score runs. 

Let’s discover 9 kinds of ducks in cricket

1. Diamond Duck – This duck indicates a batsman getting out without even facing the ball, which can include getting run out on the non-striker end without facing a single ball, or getting dismissed due to the timed-out rule. 

One of the famous diamond ducks happened in the World Cup 2023 when in a match between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, for the first time in the history of the cricket World Cup a batsman was given out because of the timed-out appeal by the opponents Bangladesh. 

Angelo Mathews of Sri Lanka became the first ever batsman to get dismissed due to a timed-out rule in the World Cup by the appeal of Shakib Al Hasan, the all-rounder from Bangladesh. 

2. Golden Duck – This kind of duck refers to when a batsman gets dismissed on the very first ball of his/her innings either by bowled, LBW, caught out, or stumps. Recently in the Test match between India and Bangladesh held in Chennai.

Akashdeep Singh took two consecutive wickets, including the wickets of Zakir Hasan and Mominul Haque. Zakir got out on 3 runs whereas Mominul got bowled out on the first ball that he faced by Akashdeep Singh. 

3. Silver Duck – This duck refers to when a batsman gets dismissed on the second ball that he or she faces without scoring a single run via LBW, caught, stumped, or bowled. The most famous silver duck in the history of cricket happened during Sir Don Bradman’s final innings.

4. Bronze Duck – This duck occurs when a batsman plays three balls without scoring a single run and gets out at the 3rd delivery. This is one of the rarest and humiliating ducks for a batsman, after the 3rd ball if a batsman gets dismissed on any ball later than that then it’s termed as boring. 

5. Royal Duck – This kind of duck can only happen in Test cricket, it refers to when the opening batsman gets out on the very first ball of the innings. This duck is associated with the most famous Test series of the world “Ashes” between England and Australia.

6. Platinum Duck – This duck also happens in test cricket when the opening batsman gets out on the first ball bowled in the Test match. This has usually happened in the Ashes series.

7. Laughing Duck – This duck happens when the batting team is 9 wickets down and they just have one wicket left, if any batsman scores 0 and gets out, with him the team is considered all out and that’s called a laughing duck for the batsman who gets out.

8. Pair Duck – This duck refers to a situation when the batsman of both innings gets out on any duck in the same match.

9. King Pair Duck – These ducks occur when the batsmen in both innings get dismissed on the first ball of their respective innings of the team. The batsman could be the same too when he gets the golden ducks in both innings of the Test.

 For instance, if a batsman got out on a golden duck in the first innings, then when the opposition team comes to chase and the opening batsman of their team also gets dismissed on the first ball of their innings which means they get out on golden ducks, this is known as King Pair Duck. 

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