Why ‘no-score’ is called ‘duck’?

Why ‘no-score’ is called ‘duck’?

A batsman’s no-score is called a duck because of the resemblance between a duck’s egg, and the figure of ‘0’ in the scorebook! Scoring nothing would naturally be something of embarrassment to a batsman: so ‘duck’ would be a humorous term that was coined to avoid that embarrassment. The earliest recorded usage of ‘duck’ is in 1863