Most Ducks in a Single Test Match (By Both Teams)

Most Ducks in a Test Match

Key Insights

11 The most number of ducks registered in a single Test match (all innings combined). There are 15 Tests with 11 recorded ducks each. And over 35 matches have seen 10 or more ducks.

Five matches between Australia and England have recorded 10 or more ducks, the most instances between two Test teams.

Sri Lanka (vs IND, 1990), the West Indies (vs AUS, 2000), and Bangladesh (vs SL, 2022) registered nine ducks each, the joint-most by a team in a Test match.

Six of Bangladesh’s ducks versus Sri Lanka came in the first innings. This is the joint-most ducks by a team in an innings in Tests. In all, six teams have racked up six ducks in a single outing, with Bangladesh having three such instances.

1392 runs aggregated in the 2018 Oval Test between England and India are the most in a match with 10 or more ducks. Overall, six Tests have recorded match aggregates of 1000-plus runs with 10 or more ducks. England feature in three of the four Tests.

In contrast, the 1932 Melbourne Test between Australia and South Africa recorded the lowest match aggregate of 234 runs. South Africa saw eight ducks as Australia wrapped them up for scores of 36 and 45, while Australia had two ducks in their total of 153 runs.

South Africa’s combined innings aggregate of 81 is the lowest, while their 36-all-out is the fourth-lowest total by a team in an innings in Test cricket.