{"id":44126,"date":"2026-02-15T19:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=44126"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:57:17","slug":"abhishek-sharma-joins-ashish-nehra-and-imrul-kayes-after-second-consecutive-world-cup-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/t20-world-cup\/abhishek-sharma-joins-ashish-nehra-and-imrul-kayes-after-second-consecutive-world-cup-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Abhishek Sharma joins Ashish Nehra and Imrul Kayes after second consecutive World Cup duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abhishek Sharma has entered an unwanted record in the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup after being dismissed for a duck in each of his first two matches in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>With his latest dismissal against Pakistan in Group A, Abhishek became only the third player from a Full Member nation to be dismissed for zero in his first two T20 World Cup appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The list now includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ashish Nehra<\/li>\n<li>Imrul Kayes<\/li>\n<li>Abhishek Sharma<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ashish Nehra and Imrul Kayes were both dismissed for ducks in their opening two T20 World Cup matches and did not score a run in their respective T20 World Cup careers.<\/p>\n<p>Abhishek\u2019s dismissal against Pakistan, where he fell for 0 off 4 balls, places him alongside Nehra and Kayes in this statistical category.<\/p>\n<p>The left-hander\u2019s early exit also marked his second consecutive duck in the ongoing ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abhishek Sharma has entered an unwanted record in the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup after being dismissed for a duck\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4641],"tags":[673,495,4791],"class_list":["post-44126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-t20-world-cup","tag-abhishek-sharma","tag-ashish-nehra","tag-imrul-kayes"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44127,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44126\/revisions\/44127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}