I seem to remember Stephen Hawking saying the same thing in his foreword to A Brief History of Time.

Is this a conspiracy against equations by Big Publisher?

One of your finest comments on this website for our money.

Ah, the Ged+Ladd name tag was on THIS machine, which I use only occasionally.

I have corrected the matter and can assure readers that no equation was intended. A publisher once memorably informed me and my co-author that every equation we chose to include in the book would halve sales. We pointed out to him that his adage was, in itself, an equation.

Surely Chris Read’s duck against Chris Cairns was quintessentially ducky by dint of him ducking inappropriately in order to surrender his wicket for no score.

Incredible. Honestly don’t know what to say.

Top Statsguru-ing.

That’ll be Wasim and Waqar, that will.

The name is derived from Sanskrit, where its primary meaning is “invincible”, “irresistible”, “unsurpassed”. The literal meaning is “unconquered”, from the prefix a- “not”, and jita “conquered”.

So there. Regardless of the ducks, Aggi ain’t conquered.

Turns out the 1990s were super-ducky indeed.

https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;groupby=decade;orderby=ducks;team=1;template=results;type=batting

https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/pick-of-the-ducks-with-rory-burns-dan-lawrence-jos-buttler-and-ollie-robinson/2021/08/05/

You did indeed. That’s pretty ducky. Duckier than the Nineties, I wonder?

In the 2021 article we’ve linked to about England managing four ducks in an innings, we regurgitated the fact that it was the third time in five Tests that had happened.