Out without facing a ball: 11 Indians who have scored diamond ducks in ODIs

#8 Harbhajan Singh

Harbhajan played many valuable knocks

Indian off spinner Harbhajan Singh became the eighth Indian to score a diamond duck in the ninth match of the 2002 Natwest series in England.

Batting first against Sri Lanka, India had just lost centurion Tendulkar when the Turbanator joined Mohammad Kaif in the middle. However, Bhajji could not make any contribution with the bat as he had to return to the pavilion without even facing a delivery. India comfortably won the match in the end.

#9 Zaheer Khan

Zaheer Khan is the only Indian to bag a diamond duck more than once

Zaheer Khan was a great exponent of reverse swing and a potent weapon in the Indian bowling armoury, but his batting skills were certainly not amongst the best. To add to this, his luck with the bat was not great as the left armed pacer faced the embarrassment of bagging diamond ducks three times in his ODI career.

The first of these instances came in India's 2003 World Cup match against England at Durban, when the last Indian to bag a diamond duck- Harbhajan Singh- inflicted the pain on Zaheer, as the duo tried to scrape through for a bye on the penultimate ball of the innings.

The second time when Zaheer faced this plight was when he tried to run a quick single off the last ball of an over to give strike to Rahul Dravid in the Tsunami Relief Fund ODI played between the ACC Asian XI and ICC World XI, which the latter won convincingly.

The third time and thankfully for Zaheer his last such instance came in 2007 in the sixth ODI of the series against England. In a critical run chase being led by Robin Uthappa, Zaheer had to sacrifice his wicket for the team's cause as India went on to win an enthralling encounter.