New Zealand tour of Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe v New Zealand – only Test – 3rd Day’s Summary
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 426 & 28/2 (7.0 ov) v Zimbabwe 313 - New Zealand lead by 141 runs with 8 wickets remaining
New Zealand are in a comfortable position in the only Test of their tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 by gaining a lead of 141 runs against the hosts on the third day of the Test at Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo.
On Thursday, November 03, 2011 after Zimbabwe continued their second innings after ending the second day on 82 runs for one wicket.
From the hosts, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/H-Masakadza-c1517 started the day’s proceedings in a bid to add more runs to their overnight tallies of 53 and 22 runs.
However, just adding a run to the team total Zimbabwe lost the wicket of Masakadza, who without scoring a run on the third day found his way back to the pavilion after his stumps were shattered by New Zealand pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Doug-Bracewell-c1394.
With three wickets down, the hosts needed to halt New Zealand from annihilating their batting line-up in a bid to give the tourist a run for their money in the only Test of the series.
It was then time for the Zimbabwean skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BRM-Taylor-c1200 to come out to bat and with his current form he was an obvious threat for New Zealand, who needed to take his wicket before allowing him to play another stupendous innings.
However, the Kiwis failed as Taylor crafted a potent partnership with Sibanda, leaving the tourists out of breath as the two batsmen countered the bowlers.
The duo posted 76 runs in the third-wicket partnership as they exhibited tremendous form by playing superb shots all around the park.
The lethal partnership was finally broken by Brownlie when Sibanda was caught by New Zealand skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LRPL-Taylor-c1849 at gully.
The batsman walked back to the pavilion after playing an exuberant knock of 93 runs, which included 11 boundaries and a six.
Next to go was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DL-Vettori-c1384 after getting trapped in front of stumps. The Zimbabwean batsman was captain managed to play an emphatic knock of 50.
Later, in the Zimbabwean innings the partnership between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RW-Chakabva-c2380 (37) proved to be the most potent as the batsmen amassed 86 runs in the 6th wicket partnership.
In the end while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Waller-c95917 stayed unbeaten on 72 runs, Zimbabwe managed to post only 313 runs in reply to New Zealand’s tally of 426 runs.
Coming out to bat, New Zealand suffered an early hiccup when they lost the wicket of opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Guptill-c1980 (0) on the penultimate delivery of their second innings.
At stumps New Zealand had scored 28 runs for the loss of two wickets with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JS-Patel-c1747 on four.
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