5 Batsmen With Most Ducks In IPL History: There have been sixteen seasons of the IPL so far, the competition having been started back in 2008. All the great T20 batters of the game in his period have at some point graced the IPL with their presence.
Interestingly, even a few T20 greats come in the list of batters with most ducks in the IPL.
This list includes most of the batters who are either top-order batters or finishers. As a top-order batsman, sometimes you can get a brilliant ball when the new ball is moving and get dismissed for a duck. As a finisher, more often you have to go hard at the bowling right from the first ball of your innings, and in mistiming or missing you hit, you can get out without opening your account.
In this article, we will discuss the batsmen who have been dismissed for a duck the most number of times in the IPL, until the end of the IPL 2023 season.
Which batsman has the most ducks in the IPL?
With 17 ducks until the end of IPL 2023, RCB’s Dinesh Karthik holds the unwanted record of most ducks in IPL history.
Following Dinesh Karthik is the Mumbai Indians captain and opener, Rohit Sharma, who has bagged 16 ducks in his IPL career. Both Karthik and Rohit have played in all the 16 IPL seasons so far.
KKR’s Sunil Narine and Mandeep Singh have been dismissed for a duck 15 times each in their IPL careers so far.
With 14 ducks each, next are five batters – Rashid Khan, Piyush Chawla, Glenn Maxwell, Manish Pandey, and Ambati Rayudu.
Batsmen with most ducks in IPL history:
Dinesh Karthik – 17 ducks
Rohit Sharma – 16 ducks
Sunil Narine, Mandeep Singh – 15 ducks
Rashid Khan, Piyush Chawla, Glenn Maxwell, Manish Pandey, Ambati Rayudu – 14 ducks
Rohit Sharma is the 4th highest run-scorer in IPL history, having played 243 matches, which is only behind MS Dhoni’s tally of 250 IPL games. Virat Kohli has played in 237 IPL matches. Dinesh Karthik has played in 242 IPL matches in his career.
