It took nearly a century and a half, but Test cricket has now officially seen its 10,000th duck. The unique landmark came on July 5, 2025, during the second Test 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 name entered cricket’s more amusing record books.LIVE Score: India vs England 2nd Test Day 41000th Duck – Bill 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 Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel.SUBSCRIBE NOW! Test cricket’s first duck came back in 1877, and since then the list has grown steadily. Every thousandth duck has a story: from Bill O’Reilly’s 1000th in 1936 to Stuart Broad’s 8000th in 2013. This time, the 10,000th duck fell amid a fascinating day’s play that summed up Test cricket’s unpredictable charm.
Siraj’s fiery spell brought India back into the game just 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 looked buried at 84/5 early in the day after Siraj’s double blow which also included Ben Stokes’ golden duck, rallied back thanks to Smith’s counterattack.
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But the second new ball turned it again. Siraj and Akash Deep took the last five wickets for just 20 runs, including Carse’s historic duck, bowling England out for 407 in reply to India’s huge 587. Carse’s duck is a reminder that while centuries and milestones grab headlines, sometimes it’s the zeros that stitch the quirks of cricket together
