Who are those batsmen who have never been out on 0 in a test match? An Indian is also in the list of greats.

New Delhi. The most embarrassing situation for any batsman is to be out on zero. Recently both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli went through this situation. While Rohit could not open his/her account in the first test match against New Zealand, Virat returned with a tag of 0 in the second test. But do you know that there are many batsmen who scored more than a thousand runs in Test cricket, but were never out on zero. Many were not out on 0 in their entire career.

Even if we make the criteria of playing at least 20 Test matches or 30 innings, there are 11 batsmen who were never out. The special thing is that all of them were either specialist batsmen of the team or all-rounders. None of them played as a specialist bowler.

How many Indians have an average higher than Sachin, the first 5 names will surprise you, Kohli is not even in the top-10 and Rohit in the top-20.

There is also an Indian among these 11 batsmen who have not been out without opening the account in their career. Name is Brijesh Patel. Brijesh Patel, who played 21 Test matches between 1974 and 1977, scored 972 runs in 38 innings at an average of 29.45. This also includes one century and 5 half-centuries.

World record in the name of James Burke
In Test cricket, only 2 batsmen have a better record than Brijesh Patel in terms of not being out on 0. These batsmen are James Burke and RA Duff. James Burke scored 1280 runs in 44 innings of 24 matches between 1951 and 1959 without getting out on zero. RA. Duff played 40 innings in 22 Tests between 1902 and 1905. he/she scored 1317 runs in these 40 innings at an average of 35.59.

Most runs in the name of Dave Houghton
Dave Houghton holds the record for scoring the most runs in a Test career without being out on a duck. Zimbabwe’s Dave Houghton played 22 Test matches between 1992 and 1997. Houghton scored 1464 runs in 36 innings of these matches at an average of 43.05 and with the help of 4 centuries.

Pakistan’s Waqar Hassan also in the list
West Indies’ Shimron Hetmyer, Brandon Nation, Bernard Julien, Robert Christiani are among the players who have never been out on 0 even after playing more than 30 innings. Apart from these, Pakistan’s Waqar Hasan (35 innings), South Africa’s Yohan Zulk (32) and Australia’s Herbert Collins (31) also never got out on zero in their Test career.

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