Your Cricket 0 ball duck

[viney]

Just wondering if any one else has been out without facing a ball. it's happened to me twice now. Also what is this called?

 

[Leggie]

Silver Duck - Get out 1st ball of match.
Diamond Duck - Get out without facing a ball (Usually a run-out).
Golden Duck - Get out 1st ball.
Duck - Get out for 0 after facing 1 or more balls.

As a No.11, I have plenty of experiece with ducks. Just ask...

 

[viney]

i thought diamond was first ball of an innings.

 

[Leggie]

Not as far as I know.

 

[Skater]

I have always been told a wicket on the first ball of the innings is a platinum duck. It surely can't be a silver duck, as silver is a lesser substance to gold.

 

[Highlander999]

Diamond duck is first ball of an innings

 

[age of the fall]

I thought Royal Duck was the first of the innings?

 

[Skater]

It might be a cultural thing, or a family thing. I remember I was number 3 in a 20 over game and the opener was out the first ball of the innings and the scorer referred to it as a 'platinum duck'. I carried my bat for the 19.5 overs, but only made 8.

 

[aussie_ben91]

Golden Duck is the first ball you face, regardless of the match situation.

 

[jordox]

When I was growing up, it was:

Golden Duck - Out first ball. Doesn't matter what situation that match is.
Platinum Duck - Out first ball of the innings
Diamond Duck -Run out without facing.

I got a diamond duck opening the batting for Gauteng Juniors in my one and only province game. My partner hit it straight to short cover on the 5th ball of the first over, called yes, then no, then yes, then no. I was halfway down the pitch and ended up just calling him through. I put in a dive and was out by inches I reckon. Still have never forgiven him to this day.

Mind you, it didn't really matter. I only lived in Gauteng for like a month.

In regards to the other form of ducks, the worst ever duck I got was playing club cricket in Australia. I went out to the middle all cocky after I scored 70 odd the previous week. First ball, the guy runs up and fizzes down a throat high bouncer that zipped off the pitch more than expected, and i got a glove on it to gully.

First ball of the match. Couldn't believe it.

Jeez cricket can be cruel.

 

[Manly]

I always thought:
Diamond - First ball of a game
Golden - First ball you face
Sapphire - Out without facing
Duck - Out without scoring.

Fortunately, I haven't ever gotten a Diamond, but have fallen foul of each of the others, including 2 'sapphires'.


Lee: 19.5 overs and 8 runs?! Jeez...

 

[Jakester1288]

Diamond duck is out without facing. Duck is out without scoring. Golden duck is out first ball without scoring. I don't know what getting out first ball of the innings, but I can confirm a Diamond is when you don't face a ball.

 

[Precambrian]

In a club final match where me and my brother opened together, he faced the first ball, drove it to the covers, we ran a single and I called for an easy double, but he tripped and could not start while I was watching the ball and ran to the same end as him. I was ran out. Pretty pissed but we won the match. So was forgotten.

 

[Biggy]

Duck (cricket)
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In the sport of cricket, a duck refers to a batsman's dismissal for a score of zero. The name is believed to come from the shape of the number "0" being similar to that of a duck's egg, an alternative version of the term given by the Concise Oxford Dictionary.[1]

Players who are dismissed by the first ball they face are said to have been dismissed for a golden duck.[2] Players who are dismissed without facing a ball (usually run out) are said to be out for a diamond duck.[3][4] This is not to be confused with a platinum duck or royal duck, which refers colloquially to a batsman who is out on the first ball of a match. Silver duck[5] refers to a batsman who gets out on the second ball he faces without scoring a run.

To be dismissed for nought in both innings of the same two-innings match is to be dismissed for a pair,[6] because the two noughts together are thought to resemble a pair of spectacles; the longer form is occasionally used.[7] To be dismissed first ball in both innings (i.e., two golden ducks) is to suffer the indignity of making a king pair.[2]

Problem Solverered? :

 

[Skater]

Looks like I was right about the platinum duck.