- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR6.2 That should be out. Yes! Mahmudul not happy but has to walk back. It's a slow walk off the pitch for him. No-ball being checked, well inside. Ball on a back of length, landed around middle and straightened. Mahmudul was on the back foot, in the crease, as he tried to flick it leg side. Bottom hand took over and it was a semi-powered swat in the end. Hand came off the bat. May have brushed the glove or a bit high on the bat, but another slow-motion replay would help. Bat very close to ball. There were two sounds fwiw 6/111.6 Evans pulls his length back and nicks him to slips! Length ball lands around middle and off and rises without losing pace. Shadman could've left it on line, maybe, didn't do too much wrong. Tried to defend to the off-side of the pitch but the ball climbed and shaved the bat before going at a good pace and height to second slip 36/233.4 Lights out here and lights out for Mominul! That's a tame dismissal. Catching practice at second slip. Back of length just outside off, seamed in and cramped him for room. Mominul opened the face and tries to run it fine. Not enough contact. Nyahmhuri's celebration is intense 113/336.3 Evans has two, so has Harshith here, who's predicted wickets twice and they've fallen. Proper don't let him settle shot from Najmul, dancing down early and looking to flay it over cover. Hard length ball landed in line and angled away to take the feather. Easy, low catch to the keeper. Shanto is frustrated with himself, Evans delighted 119/439.4 Ngarava swings one in through the defenses of Mushfiq, and roots out his stumps! Was a yorker right on the middle stump. Mushfiq tries to flick at this, a little befuddlingly, and the ball bursts through his bat-pad and takes out his poles 125/541.5 Hridoy is the latest one to fall to a poor shot. Ngarava lands this right on a good length outside off, moving away. Batter still moving his foot towards the ball by the time the ball flies out to slips 130/644.5 Muzarabani gets on the board. A feeble shoot by Amite to be dismissed here. A back of a length ball, a snorter really, and he just fends at this haplessly while trying to sway out of the way. Outside edge straight to the keeper 132/745.5 Nyamuri gets a third! Taijul has been swinging at everything. Full and well outside off, he crouches for a huge drive. Under-edge finds its way to the keeper behind him instead 140/846.2 Muzarabani has a brace now! Zimbabwe are absolutely loving it here. Was speared in full. Mahmud looks to flick this, ball flies out to a wide gully, where Bennett completes a diving catch from quite low down 140/947.2 Absolutely pitch perfect way of closing out this innings! Bowled right into the blockhole, Khaled shifts into the leg side looking to thrash this into the off-side. But the bowler is too quick, too accurate. Rips out the middle stumps. That's the end of the innings, Bangladesh have been bowled out for 140 140/10Extras14 (b 6, lb 6, w 2)TOTAL140 all out (47.2 Overs, RR: 2.95, 232 minutes)Fall of wickets: 1-6 (Mahmudul Hasan Joy, 6.2 ov), 2-36 (Shadman Islam, 11.6 ov), 3-113 (Mominul Haque, 33.4 ov), 4-119 (Najmul Hossain Shanto, 36.3 ov), 5-125 (Mushfiqur Rahim, 39.4 ov), 6-130 (Towhid Hridoy, 41.5 ov), 7-132 (Amite Hasan, 44.5 ov), 8-140 (Taijul Islam, 45.5 ov), 9-140 (Hasan Mahmud, 46.2 ov), 10-140 (Khaled Ahmed, 47.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB R Ngarava 10 4 18 2 1.8 1 0 B Muzarabani 15 8 19 2 1.26 0 0 NT Nyamhuri 12.2 1 61 4 4.94 1 0 B Evans 10 4 30 2 3 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR71.1 Taijul makes the breakthrough! Kaia is finally gone, and a tame dismissal you have to say, though Taijul bowled quite smartly here. Flighted up and sharp revs off the pitch. Kaia looked to flick this off his pads, but turned the face of his bat too soon. Edge flies off his bat and down to silly mid-off 279/416.2 Khaled is suddenly looking vicious, and he's made the first breakthrough for Bangladesh! Was on a length again, great speed on this as it skids away from the batter, pushed on the front foot once more. Edge back to the second slip, Curran has to walk back 89/138.1 Bangladesh have their first wicket of the day! Taylor gets in a tangle as this delivery rears up on him, angling away. He looks to defend from outside off, then tries to pull the bat back. Too late. Edge through to the keeper and Bangladesh strike 143/261.6 Bennett runs down the track and sells his wicket away! Oh wow, where did this come out of? Lobbed up full outside off once more. Bennett uses his feet and looks to smash this down the ground. Mistimes it right to the bowler, who catches this even as he is falling over to his left. The delivery sticks in his hands, and the spinner has delivered a breakthrough here 250/397.6 Huge sweep, and Ervine has fallen against the run of play! Was a poor ball angled down leg, quite full. Or maybe it was a plan, who knows? In either case, Ervine goes down on one knee and looks for a sweep. But he can't quite loft this over fine leg, who lies there ecstatic to gobble it up 382/671.3 Oh dear, Zimbabwe with some headloss right now! Tsiga caught ball watching and he can't make it in time for the second run... Was full, flicked with soft hands down to midwicket, lying vacant. Tsiga ran like he never intended to make it back to the striker's end. Inexplicably, they take the run anyway. Sharp throw from the fielder running in, Hasan Mahmud, and Tsiga has to walk back quite soon 280/5101.2 Rapped on the pads and that's as plumb as it gets! Was on a length, didn't even spin that much into the pads. Evans on the back foot and ends up hitting him flush on the pads. Commentator, on air, suggests might have been going down leg. But would've been umpire's call at best, imo 394/7103.3 Taijul gets his five-for! Speared in full-ish, outside off and spinning away. Nyamhuri brings his bat down. The delivery spins away off the front-foot defense, and an impeccable catch at second slip Towhid Hridoy, diving quite low to collect it. 19th five-for in Test cricket for Taijul, too 396/8105.6 Ngarava holds the pose after his middle stump's plonked back. Full and loopy ball on off was slow and spun back in to beat the slog sweep 404/9107.2 Turning strike was a mistake, Taijul pins Muzarabani in front and takes a seven-for! Whether that landed in line is the question. Fullish length ball landed around leg and spun away to beat the dead-bat and hit pad. 410/10Extras7 (b 1, lb 5, w 1)TOTAL410 all out (107.2 Overs, RR: 3.81, 488 minutes)Fall of wickets: 1-89 (Ben Curran, 16.2 ov), 2-143 (Brendan Taylor, 38.1 ov), 3-250 (Brian Bennett, 61.6 ov), 4-279 (Innocent Kaia, 71.1 ov), 5-280 (Tafadzwa Tsiga, 71.3 ov), 6-382 (Craig Ervine, 97.6 ov), 7-394 (Brad Evans, 101.2 ov), 8-396 (Newman Nyamhuri, 103.3 ov), 9-404 (Richard Ngarava, 105.6 ov), 10-410 (Blessing Muzarabani, 107.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB Hasan Mahmud 25 2 102 0 4.08 0 0 Khaled Ahmed 22 3 68 2 3.09 0 0 Ebadot Hossain 20 1 96 0 4.8 1 0 Taijul Islam 40.2 1 138 7 3.42 0 0
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR10.3 and a wicket in the second over of the morning! A length ball angling towards the batter. Mominul was stuck on the back foot. There is extra bounce too, which takes the shoulder of the bat with the batter squared up, and lobs towards gully for a simple catch 41/24.2 Should be out, yep! Caught at slip, would've been plumb lbw had he not hit it. Fullish ball swings away late and Shadman looked to defend straight. Soft hands, angled bat, all there. Ball was just too good. Shaved the edge low on the bat and rushed low to the left of Curran at third slip. Good catch. Team-mates swarm around him. Not a rash shot that gets the dismissal but it comes nonetheless 22/112.5 superb catch. The move to go around the wicket works - it forces Mominul to play at the ball. Was a full ball around off. Mominul pushed at it, away from the body, and got a healthy outside edge that went to the left of third slip. Evans threw himself parallel to the ground and grabbed it with both hands 46/327.5 bowled him!! The middle stump comes off. Nyamhuri could have had Mushi last ball, but he instead dismisses Shanto off this one after a single last delivery. A lovely inswinging yorker-length ball cleans Shanto up. The ball swings in late, and arrives like what would have been a low full toss had Shanto got bat on ball. He went driving from off but missed, and the ball kept swinging in to strike the stumps 107/430.4 got him!! A faint tickle down the leg side, and Mushi helplessly looks at the skies. Another inch to the left, and this could've been four. Muzarabani switched to bowl much fuller, as he swung the ball in and bowled on leg. Mushi got slightly across and looked to clip, but got a little - and nearly inaudible - edge behind to Tsiga, who did well to move to his left and grab the ball 117/532.3 Muzarabani has his fourth. A length ball in the channel. Hridoy pushes at it with hard hands, gets a thick outside edge and it goes into the lap of third slip 124/640.2 and gone! Full and in the channel. Hasan drives at it with hard hands and gets a thick outside edge to second slip. A regulation catch there 162/839.5 Evans finally has a wicket. It was a short ball down the leg side. Taijul decides to go for the pull this time but all he manages is an edge to the keeper. Bangladesh are seven down 158/744.6 gone!! Muzarabani doesn't get his fifth, but he does take the winning catch. Zimbabwe record their biggest Test win. Short in length from Nyamhuri to Mahmud, who's cramped by the tight line around middle and leg. He ends up awkwardly swiping at the ball, and ends up skying it to wide mid-on. Muzarabani runs across to his right, and grabs the catch. A comprehensive win for Zimbabwe against a side, which, although they rested some of their key players, entered this Test after beating Australia 2-1 in ODIs and Pakistan 2-0 in Tests 185/1040.4 full and wide outside off. Mahmud throws his bat at it, gets an outside edge and the keeper pouches it 162/9Extras8 (lb 5, w 3)TOTAL185 all out (45 Overs, RR: 4.11, 240 minutes)Fall of wickets: 1-22 (Shadman Islam, 4.2 ov), 2-41 (Mahmudul Hasan Joy, 10.3 ov), 3-46 (Mominul Haque, 12.5 ov), 4-107 (Najmul Hossain Shanto, 27.5 ov), 5-117 (Mushfiqur Rahim, 30.4 ov), 6-124 (Towhid Hridoy, 32.3 ov), 7-158 (Taijul Islam, 39.5 ov), 8-162 (Amite Hasan, 40.2 ov), 9-162 (Khaled Ahmed, 40.4 ov), 10-185 (Hasan Mahmud, 44.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB R Ngarava 9 1 32 3 3.55 0 0 B Muzarabani 17 3 65 4 3.82 1 0 B Evans 11 1 55 1 5 2 0 NT Nyamhuri 8 0 28 2 3.5 0 0
Match Details
Toss
Zimbabwe , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Series result
Zimbabwe won the one-off match
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
9.30 start, Lunch 11.30-12.10, Tea 14.10-14.30, Close 16.30
Match days
28,29,30 June 2026 (5-day match)
Test debut
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Close of Play
- Sun, 28 Jun - day 1 - Zimbabwe 1st innings 136/1 (I Kaia 76*, BRM Taylor 17*, 34 ov)
- Mon, 29 Jun - day 2 - Bangladesh 2nd innings 40/1 (Mahmudul Hasan Joy 21*, Mominul Haque 9*, 9 ov)
- Tue, 30 Jun - day 3 - Bangladesh 2nd innings 185 (45 ov) - end of match
Match Notes
- Bangladesh: 50 runs in 13.3 overs (81 balls), Extras 2
- Drinks: Bangladesh - 87/3 in 22.0 overs (Najmul Hossain Shanto 21, Mushfiqur Rahim 20)
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 65 balls (Najmul Hossain Shanto 23, Mushfiqur Rahim 22, Ex 5)
- Bangladesh: 100 runs in 26.3 overs (159 balls), Extras 6
- Lunch: Bangladesh - 117/5 in 30.4 overs (Towhid Hridoy 2)
- Bangladesh: 150 runs in 36.3 overs (219 balls), Extras 8
- Drinks: Bangladesh - 174/9 in 43.0 overs (Hasan Mahmud 8, Ebadot Hossain 8)
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 119 balls (I Kaia 31, BRM Taylor 17, Ex 2)
- Zimbabwe: 150 runs in 40.2 overs (242 balls), Extras 3
- Drinks: Zimbabwe - 186/2 in 47.0 overs (I Kaia 103, BJ Bennett 20)
- I Kaia: 100 off 153 balls (13 x 4)
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 61 balls (I Kaia 23, BJ Bennett 26, Ex 1)
- Zimbabwe: 200 runs in 49.6 overs (300 balls), Extras 4
- BJ Bennett: 50 off 54 balls (8 x 4)
- 3rd Wicket: 100 runs in 120 balls (I Kaia 44, BJ Bennett 57, Ex 1)
- Lunch: Zimbabwe - 249/2 in 61.0 overs (I Kaia 127, BJ Bennett 59)
- Zimbabwe: 250 runs in 61.4 overs (370 balls), Extras 4
- Drinks: Zimbabwe - 293/5 in 75.0 overs (CR Ervine 19, W Madhevere 11)
- Zimbabwe: 300 runs in 77.1 overs (463 balls), Extras 4
- New ball taken at 80.1 overs
- 6th Wicket: 50 runs in 76 balls (CR Ervine 26, W Madhevere 22, Ex 2)
- Zimbabwe: 350 runs in 87.6 overs (528 balls), Extras 6
- Tea: Zimbabwe - 350/5 in 88.0 overs (CR Ervine 49, W Madhevere 36)
- CR Ervine: 50 off 75 balls (5 x 4, 1 x 6)
- W Madhevere: 50 off 76 balls (5 x 4)
- 6th Wicket: 100 runs in 154 balls (CR Ervine 43, W Madhevere 55, Ex 3)
- Drinks: Zimbabwe - 399/8 in 105.0 overs (W Madhevere 66, R Ngarava 3)
- Zimbabwe: 400 runs in 105.2 overs (632 balls), Extras 7
- Innings Break: Zimbabwe - 410/10 in 107.2 overs (W Madhevere 77)
- Bangladesh 2nd innings
- End Of Day: Bangladesh - 40/1 in 9.0 overs (Mahmudul Hasan Joy 21, Mominul Haque 9)
- Bangladesh 1st innings
- Drinks: Bangladesh - 36/2 in 12.0 overs (Mominul Haque 13)
- Bangladesh: 50 runs in 15.5 overs (95 balls), Extras 1
- Lunch: Bangladesh - 76/2 in 25.0 overs (Mominul Haque 41, Najmul Hossain Shanto 9)
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 91 balls (Mominul Haque 35, Najmul Hossain Shanto 12, Ex 3)
- Mominul Haque: 50 off 64 balls (11 x 4)
- Bangladesh: 100 runs in 29.4 overs (178 balls), Extras 9
- Drinks: Bangladesh - 119/4 in 36.3 overs (Mushfiqur Rahim 4)
- Innings Break: Bangladesh - 140/10 in 47.2 overs (Ebadot Hossain 0)
- Tea: Bangladesh - 140/10 in 47.2 overs (Ebadot Hossain 0)
- Zimbabwe 1st innings
- Zimbabwe: 50 runs in 10.4 overs (64 balls), Extras 0
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 64 balls (I Kaia 23, BJ Curran 27, Ex 0)
- Drinks: Zimbabwe - 77/0 in 13.2 overs (I Kaia 43, BJ Curran 33)
- I Kaia: 50 off 61 balls (6 x 4)
- Zimbabwe: 100 runs in 22.2 overs (134 balls), Extras 1
- End Of Day: Zimbabwe - 136/1 in 34.0 overs (I Kaia 76, BRM Taylor 17)
Match Coverage
All Match NewsSeamers, Kaia lead Zimbabwe to their biggest Test win
Muzarabani picked up 4 for 65 in the second innings as Zimbabwe thrashed Bangladesh by an innings and 85 runs
Kaia's maiden ton, Madhevere and Ervine's fifties extend Zimbabwe's dominance
After Zimbabwe were bowled out for 410, with Taijul picking up a seven-for, Bangladesh lost Shadman in the second innings
Pacers, openers complete Zimbabwe's perfect day
The hosts bowled Bangladesh out for 140 and were only four behind by stumps on day one
Zimbabwe opt to bowl; Bangladesh pick Amite Hasan over Mahidul Islam Ankon
For Zimbabwe, Wessly Madhevere took the spot of Sikandar Raza but there was no room for Graeme Cremer
Zimbabwe look to build on rare Test momentum against Bangladesh
Ngarava begins his captaincy stint as Zimbabwe seek to back up last year's Sylhet win over a confident Bangladesh






