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England won by an innings and 92 runs  
61.1 Anderson to Price, no run
61.2 Anderson to Price, FOUR, a long chase for the silly point fielder
as Price drives it away through the long off and Hoggard at mid
off refuses to run, four to Price at long off
61.3 Anderson to Price, FOUR, hit away through the offside again,
substitute Powell chases but cannot get to the ball
61.4 Anderson to Price, no run, short ball, and Price has to duck under
that one and watch the ball go over middle and off
61.5 Anderson to Price, FOUR, and more! this one goes through Vaughan in
the gully and Powell chases after this one as well, but cannot get
to it yet again
61.6 Anderson to Price, FOUR, drifting down leg, and Price gets a touch
on this and flicks it away to fine leg, a run away from his
highest Test score now!


End of over 62 (16 runs) Zimbabwe 197/8 (trail by 128 runs)

JM Anderson 15-4-65-0 - Nursery End

TJ Friend 21* (20b 3x4) RW Price 17* (8b 4x4)


62.1 Harmison to Friend, bye: one run, fishing for that outside the off,

Stewart does not take that, and Price calls for the bye and Friend
finally responds
62.2 Harmison to Price, no run, a huge swing at a short delivery and
Price misses that ball completely!
62.3 Harmison to Price, no run, another short delivery, and Price does
not take up the challenge of trying the stroke again
62.4 Harmison to Price, no run, pitched up, and Price drives back to
Harmison, who fields off his own bowling and throws the ball abck

at the striker's end and hits Price on the shoulder!
62.5 Harmison to Price, no run, driven away into the onside, Harmison
runs across to field off his own bowling
62.6 Harmison to Price, no run


End of over 63 (1 run, maiden) Zimbabwe 198/8 (trail by 127 runs)

SJ Harmison 12-4-35-2 (1w) - Pavilion End

TJ Friend 21* (21b 3x4) RW Price 17* (13b 4x4)

Hussain asks Giles to bowl now, fast bowlers in operation would
have certainly spurred the umpires to offer the light to the
batsmen

63.1 Giles to Friend, no run, punched to Butcher at extra cover

63.2 Giles to Friend, no run
30 runs added by this pair till now

63.3 Giles to Friend, no run, pushed forward, the ball runs away to
Vaughan

63.4 Giles to Friend, no run

63.5 Giles to Friend, no run, off the pad, to Butcher at silly point

63.6 Giles to Friend, no run, trying to turn it into the onside, and

Friend is rapped on the pads but no close in fielder to get the
inside edge onto pad


End of over 64 (maiden) Zimbabwe 198/8 (trail by 127 runs)

AF Giles 6-2-8-0 - Nursery End

RW Price 17* (13b 4x4) TJ Friend 21* (27b 3x4)

More checking of the light
The light is good enough for Butcher, apparently
64.1 Butcher to Price, no run, slower delivery, full as well, and Price
digs it out as Butcher collapses on his follow through! He is all
right,t hough
64.2 Butcher to Price, one run, hit uppishly towards deep backward
square leg, on one bounce to Hoggard

64.3 Butcher to Friend, no run, slower delivery, defended into the
legside

64.4 Butcher to Friend, one run, worked to backward square leg, and that
brings up the 200 for Zimbabwe
64.5 Butcher to Price, no run
64.6 Butcher to Price, one run, dropped! Price is dropped at third slip,
the ball at an awkward height to Hussain


End of over 65 (3 runs) Zimbabwe 201/8 (trail by 124 runs)

MA Butcher 11-0-39-3 (2w) - Pavilion End

RW Price 19* (17b 4x4) TJ Friend 22* (29b 3x4)

Hussain claims the extra 8 overs, thinking England can finish
Zimbabwe off. But he can bowl only Giles, Butcher, Vaughan, and
possibly McGrath

65.1 Giles to Friend, no run

65.2 Giles to Friend, no run

65.3 Giles to Friend, one run, cracked into the offside for a single,
wide of a backward point
65.4 Giles to Price, FOUR
65.5 Giles to Price, two runs
65.6 Giles to Price, no run


End of over 66 (7 runs) Zimbabwe 208/8 (trail by 117 runs)

AF Giles 7-2-15-0 - Nursery End

TJ Friend 23* (32b 3x4) RW Price 25* (20b 5x4)


66.1 Butcher to Friend, no run

66.2 Butcher to Friend, FOUR, driven back straight down the ground for
four to long off, great shot!

66.3 Butcher to Friend, two runs, turned away backward of square for a
couple

66.4 Butcher to Friend, no run

66.5 Butcher to Friend, no run

66.6 Butcher to Friend, no run


End of over 67 (6 runs) Zimbabwe 214/8 (trail by 111 runs)

MA Butcher 12-0-45-3 (2w) - Pavilion End

RW Price 25* (20b 5x4) TJ Friend 29* (38b 4x4)

67.1 Giles to Price, no run
67.2 Giles to Price, no run
67.3 Giles to Price, two runs, heaved beyond mid on for a couple,
handsome and high, but not maximum for Price, and he gets only two
67.4 Giles to Price, no run
67.5 Giles to Price, no run
67.6 Giles to Price, OUT: Price sweeps that, but straight into the short
leg fielder, it balloons into the air and Trescothick at short
midwicket snaps it up. Unlucky dismissal for Price, but England
now sniff a win tonight.

Zimbabwe 219/9, Partnership of 51
RW Price c Trescothick b Giles 26 (27b 5x4 0x6)


End of over 68 (5 runs) Zimbabwe 219/9 (trail by 106 runs)

AF Giles 8-2-17-1 - Nursery End

TJ Friend 33* (38b 4x4)


68.1 Butcher to Friend, no run

68.2 Butcher to Friend, legbye: FOUR, drifting down leg, and Friend gets
some pad on that, the ball runs away for four leg byes

68.3 Butcher to Friend, FOUR, driven nicely by Friend this time, the
batsman almost playing in the dark and yet smashing this to mid on
for four more!

68.4 Butcher to Friend, SIX, Friend slogs this away, as if the bad light

were no problem at all, and six runs to Friend!

68.5 Butcher to Friend, OUT: all over! Friend edges Butcher to second
slip, not being able to smash this away like the previous balls,
and Zimbabwe although doing better than in the first innings, are
bundled out for 233, and England use their extra eight overs to
good

Zimbabwe 233/10, Partnership of 14

TJ Friend c Giles b Butcher 43 (43b 5x4 1x6)
DT Hondo 0* (0b) MA Butcher 12.5-0-55-4 (2w)


Butcher ends with five wickets and a hundred in the same game, and
no doubt is a shoo-in for the Man of the Match award.
The match also belonged to two other debutants - Anderson, who took
five wickets on debut to skittle Zimbabwe out in the first
innings...
...and McGrath, who hit a fifty on debut and then took three
wickets as a part-time medium pacer

Zimbabwe could not apply themselves in the first innings with the
bat, and on following on, they fared only a little better, giving
England a win by an innings an 92 runs.
Zimbabwe, defeated in three days, will no doubt feel disheartened
ahead of the Chester-le-Street Test, but they do still have a
chance to square the series with the win there.
Man of the Match has now been declared as Mark Butcher.
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