Who has inflicted the most golden ducks in Test cricket?
Stuart Broad wants to know. Also: how many bowlers have the treble of a hundred, a ten-wicket haul, and a hat-trick in Tests?

Wasim Akram has dismissed batters for golden ducks in Tests 33 times • Getty Images
The former England seamer Stuart Broad posed this question after seeing Australia's Mitchell Starc remove India's Yashasvi Jaiswal with the opening delivery of the second Test in Adelaide last week. It was the third time Starc had struck with the first ball of a Test, and the 19th time he had disposed of a batter for a golden duck. And I was amused to discover that on that score he's level with… Stuart Broad!
Gus Atkinson's hat-trick for England against New Zealand in Wellington last week followed 12 wickets on his Test debut, against West Indies at Lord's in July 2024, and 118 against Sri Lanka a few weeks later, also at Lord's.
The England opener Zak Crawley hit the sixth ball of last week's second Test against New Zealand at the Basin Reserve, bowled by Tim Southee, for a straight six. Rather surprisingly perhaps, this appears to be only the second time anyone has hit a six in the first over of a Test: in Mirpur in November 2012, the West Indian opener Chris Gayle crashed the very first ball of a Test for six, and added another from the fourth delivery. The bowler that day, Bangladesh's Sohag Gazi, was an offspinner making his Test debut - so Crawley is the first man to collect a six in the first over of a Test off a quick bowler.
That blazing 123 by Harry Brook against New Zealand in Wellington last week was indeed his seventh century in ten Tests outside England. That's the most by anyone in their first ten away Tests, beating the record of six established by the one and only Don Bradman in 1934, and later equalled by his fellow Australian Neil Harvey and the England pair of Ken Barrington and Chris Broad. Bradman did score more runs, though - 1732, with Brook second on 1519, well clear of Wally Hammond of England (1226), the West Indian Everton Weekes (1222) and and England's Herbert Sutcliffe (1152).
Zimbabwe's loss of all ten wickets for just 20 runs against Pakistan in Bulawayo last week was the worst collapse by a Test-playing nation in a T20I: the old record was set earlier in 2024, when Bangladesh crashed from 101 without loss to 143 all out against Zimbabwe in Mirpur in May.
Steven Lynch is the editor of the updated edition of Wisden on the Ashes