Glenn Maxwell Has 19 IPL Ducks. He Also Has a Strike Rate of 161. Both Numbers Are Correct

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April, 2026

In the IPL, Glenn Maxwell has been dismissed for zero 19 times. That is the record of all time. He has accomplished it in 141 matches and 130 innings. A single duck in an average of 6.8 innings.

That same batter has a career IPL strike rate of 161. He even made 95 out of 43 balls on behalf of Kings XI Punjab. He has borne the death weight, he has saved dying ones, and he has come up with some of the most devastating innings ever witnessed in the IPL.

Both versions of Maxwell are real. This table shows the most ducks in IPL history. The context below shows what the number alone cannot.

All-Time Top 10: Most Ducks in IPL History

No.	Player	Matches	Innings	Ducks	Duck per Innings	Total Runs	Role
1	Glenn Maxwell	141	130	19	1 per 6.8	2,819	All-rounder
2	Rohit Sharma	264	253	18	1 per 14.1	6,628	Batter
3	Dinesh Karthik	257	234	18	1 per 13.0	4,842	WK-Batter
4	Sunil Narine	189	111	16	1 per 6.9	1,840	All-rounder
5	Piyush Chawla	192	92	16	1 per 5.8	532	Bowler
6	Rashid Khan	130	72	15	1 per 4.8	820	Bowler
7	Mandeep Singh	115	98	15	1 per 6.5	1,706	Batter
8	Manish Pandey	170	159	14	1 per 11.4	3,316	Batter
9	Ambati Rayudu	187	170	14	1 per 12.1	3,885	Batter
10	Harbhajan Singh	163	90	13	1 per 6.9	696	Bowler

4 Things This Table Does Not Tell You

Piyush Chawla averages one duck per 5.8 innings. That is the worst rate on this entire list. He is a bowler who bats last.

Each number in this list requires a label of batting position. Chawla bats at 10 or 11. In the last overs, he has to deal with the best bowlers, and has no time to warm up. It is natural to have been fired because of zero in such a case. It is a different form of failure to get sacked having been rated a top-order batter such as Rohit Sharma or Manish Pandey. The table ranks the counts of ducks. It tells us not how just each duck was where those men were batting.

Rohit Sharma has 18 ducks in 253 innings. MS Dhoni has 6 ducks in 229 innings. Both batted in the top 6 for most of their careers. That gap is not normal.

Rohit had played the same number of IPL innings with Dhoni. Dhoni played most of his career at number 5 or 6 where he would walk in with not many balls remaining under pressure. Time and field were on the side of Rohit who batted at the top of the order. Dhoni has under a third the number of ducks that Rohit has. The distinction is not place. Under the new ball it is temperament. Rohit has been prone to early swing. Most of the 12-duck gap between them is due to that single technical gap.

Rashid Khan has 15 ducks in just 72 innings. One duck every 4.8 innings. He is the most frequently dismissed batter for zero on the entire list.

Rashid hits between 7 and 9 on behalf of his franchise. He is late, strikes hard, and does not linger. It is not to construct an inning of his. It is to strike limits between the final 6 or 8 balls. A duck is practically to be anticipated in that position. His strike rate in the same data set is what no one is talking about. Rashid has a strike rate of 153 in IPL. He also scores higher when he does hit than most specialist batters in top 6. Two sides of the same playing style are the duck record and the strike rate

Manish Pandey is the first Indian to score a century in the IPL. He also has 14 ducks. Both of those facts belong to the same batter.

The first Indian in the history of IPL to score a hundred was Pandey in 2009 with a not out of 114 in RCB. He was aged 19. He has also played 170 IPL matches with 3,316 career runs. He also had 14 matches in which he scored nothing. The career of Pandey is a case study of what IPL does to talented inconsistent middle-order batters. When it succeeded there was history. When it failed to do so it gave ducks. Both are contained in the record book.

The Single Season Nobody Wants to Repeat

In IPL 2022, Jos Buttler batted 863 and took the Orange Cap. In the same year he had 5 ducks in the tournament. It is the highest number of ducks made by any batter in one IPL season of the recent editions.

The same player. The same season. Orange Cap and 5 ducks. Buttler opened the batting for Rajasthan Royals where he hit every ball as the first delivery came. When it was successful it created four centuries. Where it failed it gave zero. There was no in-between. That is pure top-order aggression in a full season of T20.

In 9 innings alone, Glenn Maxwell had 4 ducks in IPL 2024. The number of duck of that one season alone is greater than what most good IPL batters have achieved in their career. It was also a 2023 season in which he played scarcely because of injury. It is precisely this sort of output that is generated by the combination of form collapses and fitness gaps.

Both the number of ducks in a season and the number of runs in a season tend to belong to a single type of batter. Going hard or going home is not the strategy of the cautious.

Most Ducks in a Single Season: Last 5 IPL Editions

Season	Most Ducks That Season	Team	Ducks	Innings Played
2025	Glenn Maxwell	PBKS	3	6
2024	Glenn Maxwell	RCB	4	9
2023	Jos Buttler	Rajasthan Royals	5	14
2022	Liam Livingstone	Punjab Kings	3	14
2021	Glenn Maxwell	RCB	3	15

Glenn Maxwell has played in the final five seasons in a single-season leader role with ducks. None of the other batter appears more than once. His style is the steadiest producer of this stat in the present day IPL cricket. Without hitting zero on a regular basis, he cannot score at 161. Those two results are related to each other.

In this table, there are three out of five season leaders who are overseas batters who have aggressive roles with their franchise. The Indian name here is totally missing. In recent years, Indian batters in the IPL have fulfillingly taken the parts of conservativeness, safeguarding their average and their place in the team. The duck record, season after season falls under the import slots.

Will 19 Ever Be Beaten?

In 2026, Maxwell was 37 and Punjab Kings released him earlier than IPL 2026. He is unsure of his future in the tournament. Unless he comes back, his score of 19 is perhaps the last he will get. No one within the existing top 10 is near enough to threaten it in the next two or three seasons.

Sunil Narine stands at 16 ducks and continues to play at KKR. He now leads the batting and has a strike rate of more than 160. His job exposes him to the new ball as much as possible and to early termination as much as possible. He must have 20 or more innings to get 19, at his present rate of about 1-duck to every 7 innings. This is a complete IPL season should KKR play him in all the games.

The bigger issue is, is 19 a record that is worth pursuing? All the batters who have the highest number of ducks in this list have the figures to prove their worth. Maxwell possesses 2,819 IPL runs and 161 strike rate. Rohit is a 6,628-run 5-time IPL winner. The number of ducks adheres to the will. And it is the purpose that made them worth picking in the first place.

19 ducks. 161 strike rate. Glenn Maxwell is both of those simultaneously.