It took practically a century and a half, however Check cricket has now formally seen its 10,000th duck. The distinctive landmark got here on July 5, 2025, in the course of the second Check between India and England at Edgbaston when England’s Brydon Carse fell for a duck as he was trapped lbw by Mohammed Siraj and with that, his title entered cricket’s extra amusing report books.LIVE Rating: India vs England 2nd Test Day 4a thousandth Duck – Invoice O’Reilly (b G Allen, 1936) 2000th Duck – G Bartlett (b G Lawrence, 1962) 3000th Duck – Liaqat Ali (b John Lever, 1978) 4000th Duck – Phil DeFreitas (b Marshall, 1988) 5000th Duck – Gary Kirsten (b Gillespie, 1997) 6000th Duck – Mohd Sami (b C Vaas, 2002) 7000th Duck – Danish Kaneria (b Ntini, 2007) 8000th Duck – Stuart Broad (b Lyon, 2013) 9000th Duck – Kusal Perera (b Boult, 2019) 10000th Duck – Brydon Carse (b Siraj, 2025)Go Past The Boundary with our YouTube channel.SUBSCRIBE NOW! Check cricket’s first duck got here again in 1877, and since then the listing has grown steadily. Each thousandth duck has a narrative: from Invoice O’Reilly’s a thousandth in 1936 to Stuart Broad’s 8000th in 2013. This time, the ten,000th duck fell amid a captivating day’s play that summed up Check cricket’s unpredictable appeal.

Siraj’s fiery spell introduced India again into the sport simply when Jamie Smith (184*) and Harry Brook (158) threatened to take it away with a blistering 303-run partnership for the sixth wicket. England, who seemed buried at 84/5 early within the day after Siraj’s double blow which additionally included Ben Stokes’ golden duck, rallied again due to Smith’s counterattack.

However the second new ball turned it once more. Siraj and Akash Deep took the final 5 wickets for simply 20 runs, together with Carse’s historic duck, bowling England out for 407 in reply to India’s big 587. Carse’s duck is a reminder that whereas centuries and milestones seize headlines, generally it’s the zeros that sew the quirks of cricket collectively