Anyone for cricket?! Well, OK, it's tennis that's played close to GZ, while Winstanley Cricket Club is just down the road towards Orrell Water Park. But the two sports do have something in common apart from the fact that they both use a bat and a ball - their words for scoring a big, fat zero come from the same thought. If you write "0" it looks like an egg shape. So if you're out for 0 at cricket you get "a duck" - short for "duck's egg". Tennis came to us from France originally, where the word for egg is "l'oeuf" - say it out loud and it sounds like "love", which is where we get our English word for being scoreless at tennis.