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Rachin Ravindra scored a century on 104 balls. His celebration in the photo.
New Zealand has scored 601 for 3 wickets in the first innings of the second Test. On the second day of the Bulveo Test, Kiwis took a lead of 476 runs over Zimbabwe thanks to Kiwis (Rachin Ravindra 165*, Devon Conway 153 and Henry Nichols 150*).
The team has not yet declared the innings and has 7 batsmen left. The pitch is easy for batting and the game has three days left, so it can move towards New Zealand and big score. For Zimbabwe, Blessing Mujarbani, Trevor Gwandu and Vincent Masakesa took one wicket each.
Celebrating Henry Nichols after a century.
Conway’s 2 thousand runs complete Conway completed 2000 runs in his Test career and scored a fifth century after about two and a half years. Nichols scored his tenth century in the Test, which is special for him as he did not get a place in the team in 2024 last year. Ravindra hit the third century of Test career in just 104 balls.
The day was extremely difficult for Zimbabwe. His three bowlers Blessing Mujarbani, Trevor Gwandu and Vincent Maska all spent more than 100 runs. The same three were also the bowlers who took wickets in this match so far, although Gwandu’s wicket came on the first day. Zimbabwe has so far thrown 130 overs, of which 91 overs were from the second day.
Conway scored a century in Test cricket after two and a half years.
An unbeaten 256 -run partnership between Nichols and Ravindra Middle order batsmen Henry Nichols and Rachin Rabindra shared an unbeaten 256 -run partnership for the fourth wicket. Both scored centuries and put shots around the ground on the ball of Zimbabwe’s ballrs.
Nichols returned unbeaten after scoring 150 runs on 245 balls. Henry hit 15 fours in the innings. In the third session, Rachin Ravindra batted fast and scored 165* runs on 139 balls. Ravindra hit 21 fours and 2 sixes in the innings. The third day’s game will start at 1:30 pm.
Zimbabwe won the toss and chose batting In the second match of the Test series, Zimbabwe won the toss and decided to bat first. Currently, the team is trailing 0–1 in the 2-match series. New Zealand won the first match by 9 wickets.
Brandon Taylor went on to play the test after 42 months ban. He batted opening for the team.
Zimbabwe could not even bat 50 overs The start of Zimbabwe was very poor. Brian could not even open a Bennett account. Brandon Taylor stayed at an end, but in front of him Nick Welsh 11, Captain Crag Irwin 7, Sikander Raza 5 and Sean Williams were dismissed for 11 runs. Taylor was also dismissed again after scoring 44 runs.
Trevor Gwandu could not even open an account. Wicketkeeper Tafdjwa Siga again brought the team to 100 runs, but was dismissed in front of Vincent Maskesa 1, Blessing Mujarbani 3 and Tanaka Chivanga 4 runs in front of him. The team was reduced to 125 runs in the 49th over. Matt Henry from New Zealand took 5 and Jackie Folks took 4 wickets. Matthew Fisher got 1 wicket. Read full news …