10 cricketers career ended with the duck in final match 10 cricketers career ended with duck in final match

Not evey cricketers carrer ends in the high note, while their careers in the general might have been illustrious, certain cricketers have not really had a memorable outling in the final match. There have been quite few cricketers who have been notable contribution in the final match.

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10. Donald Bradman vs England(1948)

Donald Bradman who is one of the greatest batters of the 20th century and last was dismissed for a silver duck in the final Test innings. He ended up bowled by googly by Eric Hollies. Which means that the Australian great ended the Test career with the average of 99.94 having scored 6,996 runs in 80 innings.

9. Vinoo Mankad vs West Indies (1959)

Just scorring 29 and bowling 55 overs for 167 runs in the first and second innings of the test, Vinoo Mankad was dismissed without troubling the scorers in the final innings of the career. Mankad last ended the Test career with 2109 runs in just 72 innings which gave an average of 31.47.

8. Aamar Sohail vs Sri Lanka(2000)

Aamer Sohail went with seven ball duck in the final innings as the international player. He did bowled better than batted in that game. Sohail was also among the two Pakistanis who have dismissed for a duck in the second innings. He did scored 2823 runs at an average of of 35.28 in 83 Test innings.

7. Sourav Ganguly vs Australia(2008)

Sourav Ganguly in his final international game was a mixed bag where he failed to carry on the momentum from the first on the second innings, getting dismissed for a golden duck after the scorring 85. India eventually won the game by 172 runs. Ganguly scored around 7212 runs in jys 188 innings at the average of 42.17.

6. Andrew Symonds

In the final T20i match which was also the last match of Andrew Symonds‘ final international match, where he was als dismessd on the first ball he faced by Shahid Afridi, he had a remarkable carrer for Australia after then he retired with the 337 runs in 11 T20i innings while striking at 169.34.

5. Shivanarine Chanderpaul

Shivanarine Chanderpaul in the final international innings was also nine ball duck against England as he was bottom edged as a lossener from James Anderson onto the stumps. Chanderpaul ended with the 11,867 Test runs in the 280 innings with the average of 51.37.

4. Ian Bell vs Pakistan(2015)

Ian Bell was facing Shaob Malik in his last match where he bould around the wicket which held in line knocked back on the Ian stumps for a six ball duck in the final game. This happened just after a solid 40 run knock off 158 delivery in the frist innings. Bell Test career ended with 7727 runs in just 205 innings at an average of 42.69.

3. Gautam Gambhir vs England(2016)

Gautam Gambhir was dismissed with scoring in India second innings of the first Test in 2016 series against Engalnd. Gambhir could not defend the short delivery which went straight into the hands of fielder at the second slip just to end an six ball stay at the crease. He did score 4154 runs in just around 104 test innings with an average of 41.95.

2. Eoin Morgann vs Netherlands(2022)

Eoin Morgan who had to head back to the stadium just in seven ball duck after a edge wild swip across the line which led to his dismissal in the final outing. He ended the ODI career with most success with 50 over skipper of England having led them to the World Cup glory in 2019.

1. Azahar Ali vs England(2022)

Azhar Ali was also taken down by Jack Leach, and Somerset teammate on the fourth ball of the final innings in international cricket. The fairytale ending the Pakistani stalwart who would expected as walked off guard of honour after the scoring around 7142 runs in just 180 Test innings with the average of 42.26