Out for a Duck

Ryan will appreciate this….

While watching a cricket (the sport, not the animal) show on TV, I heard briefly that a team in England went all-out for 5 runs a couple of days ago. After nearly falling of my chair laughing, I decided to check out this story a little further.

The team, Goldsborough, had 10 of its players went out for a duck (term for when a batsman fails to score a run). Fortunately, five extras (term for when a bowler is judged to have miss the wicket horribly, thus giving the batting team a run…a little help, Ryan?) were scored, so the embarrassment of being shutout was avoided.

This is like the equivalent of a team being no-hit by a pitcher or combination of pitchers in baseball…ironically, a very similar game to cricket.