The pressure in a T20 World Cup match is immense, where every run matters for the team. Some batsmen can change the fortunes of their team by scoring a duck. We will look at the five batsmen who have scored the most ducks in T20 World Cup history from 2007-2024
West Indies Andre Russell holds the record of getting out for a duck 4 times in 24 innings in five T20 World Cup editions from 2012 to 2024. The aggressive all-rounder has a batting average of 16.85 at the big stage and even has a strike-rate of 147.50. Andre Russell is known for playing a vital role in crucial knockout matches for West Indies and he is a two-time World Champion for West Indies, winning the prestigious trophy in 2012 and 2016.
West Indies wicketkeeper-batsman Johnson Charles, who was also part of the 2012 and 2016 T20 World Cup-winning teams, has been dismissed for zero four times in his 21 innings. The cricketer holds the record for getting dismissed for zero twice against Papua New Guinea and New Zealand in the 2024 T20 World Cup. So far in his T20 World Cup career, Charles has scored just 456 runs in 20 innings at a poor strike-rate of 113.71 and an average of 22.80.
Bangladesh batsman Soumya Sarkar holds the record for most ducks, with 13 of those ducks coming in 83 innings. Interestingly, the batting all-rounder has registered 4 ducks in just 16 T20 World Cup innings. The 31-year-old Soumya Sarkar also failed to open his account against Sri Lanka during the 2024 T20 World Cup Group D game in Dallas in June. Sarkar has a T20 World Cup batting average of 9.43 and a strike-rate of 98.69, which are well below his international benchmarks.
Sri Lanka's 2014 T20 World Cup-winning member and the highest run-scorer of 2009, Tillakaratne Dilshan holds the record of getting out at zero five times. in his 34 batting appearances. The right-handed batsman has scored 897 runs at an average of around 31 and a strike-rate of 124.06.
Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi holds the record of getting out for zero in five of his eight T20I matches on the grand stage of the T20 World Cup. One of Afridi's most infamous T20 World Cup innings is the one in which he got out for zero off the first ball against India in the final of the 2007 tournament. The all-rounder played a key role in Pakistan's historic title win in 2009 and was declared 'Player of the Tournament' in 2007, but the cricketer has a batting average of just 18.82 after playing 32 T20 World Cup innings.
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