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
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Friday, March 7, 2008
Why ‘no-score’ is called ‘duck’?
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