Ben Duckett scored the 7th century of his test careerImage Credit source: Getty Images
In the third Test match being played between England and New Zealand, the batsmen looted a lot of runs in the first two days. On the Trent Bridge ground in Nottingham, the first day was dedicated to New Zealand’s batsmen, while the second day was played by England’s batsmen and the main character of this event was opener Ben Duckett, who scored an excellent century. Duckett scored his 7th century in Test cricket in just 88 balls. Along with this, Duckett also got good results for the risk he had taken by leaving IPL 2026.
second day of trent bridge test captain ben stokes On the basis of this, England restricted New Zealand to 438 runs in the first innings. After this, when it was England’s turn, the curiosity was whether the host team would also be able to take advantage of the good conditions for batting or not. As soon as opener Emilio Gay was out in the second over itself, it seemed that England might not be able to repeat the feat like New Zealand. But experienced opener Ben Duckett had different intentions and this became known after some time.
First the gift of life, then the reward of a century.
Duckett started batting in his familiar style and started scoring boundaries. However, he got a lease of life right at the beginning of the innings, when he was on just 8 runs and his catch was missed. But after this the English opener did not give any chance again and in no time he reached his century. Duckett once again played a fast innings and scored this century in just 88 balls. This was the 7th century in the career of left-handed batsman Ben Duckett.
He finally returned to the pavilion after playing an innings of 113 runs in 99 balls. On the basis of this innings of Duckett, by the end of the second day’s play, England had scored 223 runs after losing 2 wickets in the first innings. During this innings, Duckett, along with Jacob Bethel, made a big partnership of 179 runs for the second wicket and put the team in a strong position.
Took a risk by leaving IPL, now it is beneficial
This innings of Duckett was very important for him because he was continuously failing in it for the last 11 test matches. Now on the basis of this he secured his place in the England Test team for some time. With this goal in mind, Ben Duckett had taken a big risk a few months ago and withdrew his name from IPL 2026 at the last moment. He had then said that he took this step to save his Test career.
The result of this was that under the rules of BCCI, now he will not be able to participate in IPL for the next 2 seasons. But this ultimately benefited Duckett, who played 5 County Championship matches during the IPL season and scored 3 half-centuries and a double century in 8 innings. Due to this, he got a place in the England team for this series.
