5 Cricketers who have scored most ducks across all formats

Cricket has undergone several transformations over the years. The game has become more fast-paced. Formats like Test Cricket are producing more and more results and taking fewer days to end. The T20 format is taking a lot more time to get completed because of the numerous ad breaks that come in between overs and also because the players take a lot of time in between overs. The game continues to amaze the fans.

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Cricketers have always prided themselves in scoring runs and taking wickets. But the time any cricketer dreads is when they are given out on a duck. When that happens the player goes into a different zone. If it is a top-order batter, then it feels all the more humiliating. If worse than that is needed, then nothing can beat getting out on a king pair. Anil Kumble is one such example.

Here is a list of players who have gotten the most number of ducks across Tests, ODIs and T20Is throughout their playing career. the list has a lot of illustrious names who have had this dubious distinction. If they had seen the records they they would not be proud of what they have achieved. Let us take a look at 5 players who have the most ducks across formats.

#5 Mahela Jayawardene

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Mahela Jayawardene (Source: Twitter)

Mahela Jayawardene is one of the finest Sri Lankan batters to play the game. The right-hander was one of those players who was immensely gifted in terms of timing and strokeplay. Jayawardene has 47 ducks across formats.  In ODIs, the Sri Lankan has scored 12650 runs in 448 matches.

#4 Glenn McGrath and Stuart Broad

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Stuart Broad (Source: Twitter)

The two fast bowlers have 49 ducks in all formats. Both of the fast bowlers have the same number. While McGrath was primarily a number 11 batter. When it comes to Stuart Broad has scored 3662 runs in Test Cricket and scored 13 half-centuries and one century in the white flannels for England.

#3 Sanath Jayasuriya

Sanath Jayasuriya (Source: Twitter)

Sanath Jayasuriya was known for his flamboyance and reinvented batting starting from the 1996 World Cup. the left-hander has 53 ducks across all formats. The man from the Emerald Isle played 445 ODIs and scored 13430 runs. He used to put the bowlers under the sword in his heyday.

#2 Courtney Walsh

Courtney Walsh (Source: Twitter)

Courtney Walsh was one of the bowlers from the famous West Indian quartet that had the likes of Curtly Ambrose, Joel Garner and Malcolm Marshall. Walsh was famously known for terrorising batters but he also has got a lot of ducks.  When it came to Test matches Walsh scored 936 runs in his career.

#1 Muttiah Muralitharan

Muttiah Muralitharan (Source: Twitter)

Muttiah Muralitharan the spin wizard from the Emerald Isle has picked up 800 wickets in Tests and is the greatest ever off-spinner to have played the game. The right-hander has 59 ducks across all formats which is the most by a player. Recently a biopic of the off-spinner will hit screens in October.