A ''pair'' in cricket refers to when a

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is dismissed for a

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(without scoring) in both innings. It is called a 'king pair' if the batsman gets out for a golden duck (getting out on the first ball he faced) in both innings. The name originates from the two noughts together being thought to resemble a pair of

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; the longer form is occasionally used.

Most pairs in a Test career

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fast bowler

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has been dismissed without scoring in both innings during seven Test matches, three more than any other player. Five players have been dismissed for four pairs of ducks in Tests. Four are bowlers with no great pretensions towards batsmanship –

Bhagwat Chandrasekhar Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrasekhar (informally Chandra; born 17 May 1945) is an Indian former cricketer who played as a leg spinner. Considered among the top echelon of leg spinners, Chandrasekhar along with E.A.S. Prasanna, Bishen Singh Bedi an ...

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and

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and

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– but the fifth is top order batsman

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of Sri Lanka. He started his Test career with just one run in six innings – including two pairs – and has bagged two more since.

Pairs on Test debut

45 batsmen have been dismissed for a pair on their debut in Test cricket: #

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for South Africa v England at Cape Town in 1891/92 #

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Gordon Rowe Charles Gordon Rowe (30 June 1915 – 9 June 1995) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in one Test match in 1946 against Australia. He also represented New Zealand at hockey. Life and career Early life and war service Rowe was born at Glasg ...

for New Zealand v Australia in Wellington in 1945/46 #

Len Butterfield Leonard Arthur Butterfield (29 August 1913 – 5 July 1999) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in one Test in 1946. He later served as New Zealand's chief harness racing stipendiary steward. Cricket career Butterfield made his first-class ...

for New Zealand v Australia in Wellington in 1945/46 #

Cuan McCarthy Cuan Neil McCarthy (24 March 1929 – 14 August 2000) was a South African cricketer who played in fifteen Test matches from 1948 to 1951. Life and career One of five children born to Victor and Phyllis McCarthy, Cuan McCarthy grew up on "Glen ...

for South Africa v England in Durban in 1948 #

Alf Valentine Alfred Louis Valentine (28 April 1930 – 11 May 2004) was a West Indies cricket team, West Indian cricketer in the 1950s and 1960s. He is most famous for his performance in the West Indies' 1950 tour of England cricket team, England, which was ...

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Ram Ramchand Gulabrai Sipahimalani "Ram" Ramchand (26 July 1927 – 8 September 2003) was an Indian cricketer, cricket coach and administrator who played for the national team in 33 Test matches between 1952 and 1960. In his only series as captain, he led ...

for India v England at Headingley in Leeds in 1952 #

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for West Indies v India in St Lucia in 2016 #

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for Bangladesh v England in Chittagong in 2016 #

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Consecutive pairs

These batsmen all bagged pairs in two Tests in a row. *

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(England, 1894–95) *

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(South Africa, 1935–36) * Wayne Clark (Australia, 1977–78) *

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(England, 1984) *

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(Australia, 1985/1985-86) *

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(Australia, 1992–93) *

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(Australia, 1998–99) *

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(India, 1999–2000) * Merv Dillon (West Indies, 1998-99/2000–01) * Dinanath Ramnarine (West Indies, 2001–02) * Shabbir Ahmed (Pakistan, 2005/2005–06) *

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(Sri Lanka, 2017–18) *

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(Bangladesh, 2021−22) In recognition of his consecutive Test pairs, Mark Waugh, who had scored a century on his Test debut, was temporarily nicknamed "

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", after the car-maker with the four-circle logo. His teammates pointed out that if he had scored five Test ducks in a row, he could have been nicknamed "

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". Both expressions have since become part of the terminology of the game, and in Test cricket, three players have actually completed an Olympic:

(Australia, 1985),

(India, 1999–2000) and Mohammad Asif (Pakistan, 2006).

Pairs by Test captains

25 captains have been dismissed for a pair. #

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for Australia v England at Sheffield in 1902 #

Louis Tancred Louis Joseph Tancred (7 October 1876 – 28 July 1934) was a South African cricketer who played in 14 Test matches from 1902 to 1913, including three as captain. Born into a cricketing family in Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, Tancred attended St ...

for South Africa v England at The Oval in 1912 #

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for India v England at Kanpur in 1951/52 #

Harry Cave Henry Butler Cave (10 October 1922 – 15 September 1989) was a New Zealand cricketer who captained New Zealand in nine of his 19 Test matches. His Test career extended from 1949 to 1958, and he played first-class cricket from 1945 to 1959. Ea ...

for New Zealand v West Indies at Dunedin in 1955/56 #

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for West Indies v Australia at Melbourne in 1960/61 #

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for India v England at Delhi in 1976/77 #

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for West Indies v New Zealand at Wellington in 2013/14 #

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for South Africa v Pakistan at Centurion in 2018/19 #

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for Pakistan v South Africa at Centurion in 2018/19 #

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for Bangladesh v India at

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in 2019/20 #

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for South Africa v West Indies at

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in 2022/23 Sarfaraz Ahmed and Faf du Plessis made pairs in the same match, the first time this had happened in the same Test.

Pairs by designated Wicket-keepers in Tests

52 wicket-keepers have been dismissed for a pair. In July 2019,

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and Gary Wilson were dismissed without scoring in both innings of the same Test match. It was the first instance of both designated wicket-keepers being dismissed for a pair in a completed Test.

King pairs in Test cricket

If a batsman is out first ball he has made a golden duck and if a batsman is dismissed first ball in both innings he has achieved a

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. This worst of all batting fates has befallen 22 players in the history of Test cricket so far. #

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for England v South Africa at Cape Town in 1905-06 #

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for South Africa v Australia at Sydney in 1910–11 # Tommy Ward for South Africa v Australia at Old Trafford in 1912. Tommy Ward was dismissed in each innings by

Jimmy Matthews Thomas James Matthews (3 April 1884 – 14 October 1943) was an Australian Test cricketer. Bowling leg breaks, he is the only player to have taken two hat-tricks in the same Test match. International cricket career "Possibly the best all-rou ...

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in each innings. # Robert Crisp for South Africa at Kingsmead in 1935-36 # Ian Colquhoun for New Zealand v England at Eden Park in 1954–55, twice giving

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a hat-trick opportunity which was denied by

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each time; the second innings was part of New Zealand's 26 all out which is the lowest team score in a Test match. #

Colin Wesley Colin "Tich" Wesley (5 September 1937 – 5 March 2022) was a South African cricketer who played in three Test matches in 1960. Wesley played first-class cricket for Natal from 1957 to 1966 as a middle-order batsman and left-arm spin bowler. He ...

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for England v India at Vishakhapatnam in November 2016 #

for Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in September 2017 #

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for Bangladesh v West Indies at Kingston in July 2018 #

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for England v India at Lords in August 2021

Notable pairs in first-class cricket

King Pairs have been 'bagged' by many players in

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. Mick Norman of

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bagged a king pair in a single day against

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at St. Helen's in

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in June 1964. When Glamorgan followed on against the Indians at Cardiff Arms Park in June 1946, last man Peter Judge was bowled for a duck by Chandra Sarwate to end the county's first innings. Invited to follow-on, Glamorgan's captain Johnny Clay, who was the non-striker, decided to waive the 10-minute interval between innings, remained in the middle with Judge, and reversed the entire batting order. Sarwate then bowled Judge again, second ball, incidentally with the same ball, and Judge thus achieved the fastest pair in the history of first-class cricket. Zimbabwe opening bat Hamilton Masakadza completed an unusual pair when he was dismissed for a Test duck twice on the same day, 28 January 2012, when his team's two innings were completed within a day. Another notable pair was made by Neil Harvey on 27 July 1956. Playing in the test where Jim Laker took 19 for 90, Harvey completed a pair within about 2 hours on the second day.

Unofficial pairs in Twenty20 cricket

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games decided by a Super Over, it is possible for a batsman to be dismissed for a duck in both the regular innings and the super over. Since runs made in super overs are not counted towards a player's statistical record, this is sometimes referred to an "unofficial pair". On 25 July 2013,

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scored an unofficial golden pair for

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against

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, while on 10 January 2014,

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scored an unofficial pair playing for the

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against the

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. On 20 September 2020, during the second match of the

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scored an unofficial pair playing for

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against the

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