ZIM vs NZ 1st Test Highlights: Craig Ervine-led Zimbabwe Squared off against Mitchell Santner-led New Zealand in the first test between July 30 and August 30 at Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo.

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Zimbabwe

Ben Curran, Brian Bennett, Nick Welch, Sean Williams, Craig Ervine (c), Sikandar Raza, Tafadzwa Tsiga (wk), Newman Nyamhuri, Vincent Masekesa, Blessing Muzarabani, Tanaka Chivanga

New Zealand

Devon Conway, Will Young, Henry Nicholls, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Blundell (wk), Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner (c), Nathan Smith, Matt Henry, William ORourke

ZIM vs NZ 1st Test Scoreboard

ZIM vs NZ 1st Test Highlights

Day 01

• Batting first, Zimbabwe went on score 149 runs off with Craig Ervine and Tafadzwa Tsiga were the only scorers for Zimbabwe. Matt Henry picked a six wicket haul while Nathan Smith picked three wickets.
• Starting their first innings, New Zealand went on to score 92 runs by the end of day 01.

Day 02

• Conway and Daryl Mitchell were the scorers for New Zealand 88 and 80 runs and Young’s 41 runs has helped the side to score 307 runs.
• Muzarabani went on to pick three wickets while Tanaka picked two wickets. Other bowlers Newman, Raza, Williams and Vincent Masekesa picked one wicket each.
• Starting their second innings, Zimbabwe went on to score 31/2 by the end of day 02.

Day 03

• Resumed the innings, Zimbabwe went on to score 165 runs where Matt Henry, Will O’Rourke picked three wickets each while Santner completed the deal with four dismissals.
• With 8 runs to win, New Zealand started their second innings, where they won the game by 9 wickets.

ZIM vs NZ 1st Test Scorecard

Zimbabwe 1st innings

New Zealand Bowling

New Zealand 1st Innings

Zimbabwe Bowling

Zimbabwe 2nd Innings

New Zealand Bowling

New Zealand 2nd Batting

Zimbabwe Bowling

ZIM vs NZ 1st Test Highlights

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Player of the Match

Matt Henry | New Zealand That’s probably the nature of playing international cricket, you’re chopping and changing between formats and have to trust the work put in beforehand. It was great the way we could exploit it on day one and set the platform. They’ll both get checked out today. Great to be back here playing Test cricket.