Glossary
A batter dismissed for 0. A golden duck is first ball. Write the dismissal, not the nickname, in the official book.
A duck is a dismissal for no runs. A golden duck is out off the first ball faced. Both are recorded as the dismissal, with the mode and the bowler.
The nicknames are fine on the page, but the book records the mode of dismissal.
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