F du Plessis of South Africa scored zero and 120 against Australia in the just concluded test at Johannesburg to provide the 17^th occasion of a captain scoring a duck and a century in the  annals of test cricket. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	FI	SI	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	WL Murdoch	0	153*	Aus	Eng	The Oval	06 Sep 1880
2	GHS Trott	0	143	Aus	Eng	Lord’s	22 Jun 1896
3	DG Bradman	138	0	Aus	Eng	Nottingham	10 Jun 1948
4	PBH May	0	112	Eng	SAF	Lord’s	23 Jun 1955
5	GS Sobers	0	113*	Win	Eng	Kingston	08 Feb 1968
6	MC Cowdrey	101	0	Eng	Win	Kingston	08 Feb 1968
7	GS Sobers	132	0	Win	Ind	Port of Spain	13 Apr 1971
8	MW Gatting	100	0	Eng	Aus	Adelaide	12 Dec 1986
9	A Ranatunga	127	0	Srl	Aus	Colombo (SSC)	17 Aug 1992
10	MA Atherton	144	0	Eng	Win	Georgetown	17 Mar 1994
11	Mohd Ashraful	0	129*	Ban	Srl	Colombo (PSS)	03 Jul 2007
12	M Jayawardene	104	0	Srl	Aus	Hobart	16 Nov 2007
13	AJ Strauss	0	110	Eng	Aus	Brisbane	25 Nov 2010
14	GC Smith	122	0	SAF	Aus	Adelaide	22 Nov 2012
15	Misbah-ul-Haq	114	0	Pak	Eng	Lord’s	14 Jul 2016
16	V Kohli	0	104*	Ind	Srl	Kolkata	16 Nov 2017
17	F du Plessis	0	120	SAF	Aus	Johannesburg	30 Mar 2018

GS Sobers of West  Indies and MC Cowdry of England scored duck and century at Kingston in Feb 1968 to provide the only occasion of rival skippers performing such a feat in the annals of test cricket.

No	Player	FI	SI	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	GS Sobers	0	113*	Win	Eng	Kingston	08 Feb 1968
2	MC Cowdrey	101	0	Eng	Win	Kingston	08 Feb 1968

GS Sobers of West Indies is the only captain to score a duck and a century on two occasions. His feat  is listed below

No	Player	FI	SI	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	GS Sobers	0	113*	Win	Eng	Kingston	08 Feb 1968
2	GS Sobers	132	0	Win	Ind	Port of Spain	13 Apr 1971