Ollie Pope must, in one way, have found the first test between England and Pakistan a disappointing game. The positive aspect for him will have been seeing England secure the win. The negative side will have been scoring a second ball duck as England reached their third highest ever total of 823 for 7 with Joe Root and Harry Brook scoring a double and triple century respectively.
There have been 6 games where Attenborough have scored over 300 runs and one of the batters have recorded a duck.
Pete Turner and Asantha de-Alwis had golden ducks in 1st XI games against Loughborough Carillion (a cup game) and Hoveringham in 2005 and 2013. Both games saw us score 303 in securing wins. Chris Allcoat also got a duck in the Hoveringham game although he did twice as well as Asantha in lasting two balls.
Chris Allcoat was on the other side of the equation in the 2014 1st XI game at Farndon. He scored 104 out of the team's 304 while Allan Moss was the one with the duck.
The most recent instance was the 2021 2nd XI drawn game against Wollaton when Mason Tolley and Angad Singh both failed to score while Albert Gardiner hit 109 out of 309.
The earliest recorded instance was back in 2005 when Pete Turner was a long way from his golden duck mentioned earlier. He was in for 25 balls before being dismissed while Sam Clulow hit 168 out of 311 in the drawn game against Ellerslie.
The highest team score with a duck recorded was 318 in the 1st XI's win against Gedling Colliery in 2016. Ben and Pete Bhabra scored the majority of the runs with 142* and 93 whilst the player with the duck in this game was Neil Thurlow.
All that said - at times everyone's played a pretty part but it's the performance as a team that matters most.
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