SA & NZ in Zim, June 28 - Aug 11

[sussexpob]

I'm absolutely staggered he declared

[Gingerfinch]

I'm staggered. What an unselfish man.

I'd say an idiotic one!

[Arthur Crabtree]

If he thinks his knock isn't worthy of the record, he could at least have gone past Hayden.

Who wouldn't want that?

[sussexpob]

Maybe he didn't want the pressure or disappointment of not making it. Declare just short and you can always make the case you turned your back on it, fail to get there not so much

[Arthur Crabtree]

It was lunch, which might have been a factor.

Seven short of Sanga v SA.

Bowled off a nb on 247

[mikesiva]

South Africa 626-5 declared

Mulder 367*
Bedingham 82
Pretorius 78
Verreyne 42*

Chivanga 2-112

[mikesiva]

Zimbabwe 170 all out

Williams 83*

Subrayen 4-42
Yusuf 2-20
Mulder 2-20

Follow on enforced.

[andy]

What wiian Mulder said afterwards speaks volumes about the guy

[sussexpob]

What wiian Mulder said afterwards speaks volumes about the guy

Indeed, I have to salute him being self-aware to know that taking the record against this bowling attack would sour it somewhat. Well played Wiaan.

Reminds me of Peshawar in 1998 when Mark Taylor declared on 334 refusing to go past Bradman. The team even voted the night before for him to go for the record, but he parked it at even with the Don and walked off the field.

[mikesiva]

Zimbabwe 220 all out

Welch 55
Ervine 49
Kaitano 40

Bosch 4-38
Muthusamy 3-77

[mikesiva]

At the halfway stage of the tri series, New Zealand have two wins, South Africa one, and Zimbabwe yet to get off the mark.

[mikesiva]

Final group points
New Zealand 8
South Africa 4
Zimbabwe 0

New Zealand beat South Africa by three runs in the final.

[mikesiva]

Zimbabwe vs New Zealand in two Tests at Bulawayo.

First Test July 30- August 3

Second Test August 7-11

[mikesiva]

Zimbabwe 149 all out

Ervine 39

Henry 6-39
Smith 3-20

[mikesiva]

New Zealand 307 all out

Conway 88
Mitchell 80

Muzarabani 3-73
Chivanga 2-51