Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan Only Test Day 1 Highlights 2025

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00:00Beautiful!

00:30doesn't look like a man who's been out of test cricket for 20 months

00:35well he has been stroking the ball quite nicely of late in odi format

00:43this one goes square up but it goes quicker than behind square for four so back to back boundaries

00:51beautiful first time we've seen anything over pitch from the zimbabwean bowlers

01:03zedrine is in fine form

01:09beautiful stroke is focusing on timing and placement once again from ebrahim

01:15it is found catches taken breakthrough for zimbabwe to celebrate it's it's musurbani once again

01:26striking early

01:30it's been several times you've seen this morning the afghanistan batters just playing away from

01:35their body slightly no business playing that ball whatsoever safe hand

01:47struggling and goes through brendan taylor and a bit of a dive gets a hand on it

01:51outfield is quick summer months and it'll be a boundary

01:55oh bounce yet another boundary hits the surface on this occasion takes the shoulder

02:10and there hasn't been a shot in anger besides this little bit of a clever shot play from t20 cricket

02:16ramanula gurbaz brings up the 50 in style

02:23pulls emphatically in front of a square on the onside that's a lovely stroke from abdul malik

02:30as he picks up yet another

02:34obviously played straight to the fielder caught it backward point

02:38second taking the catch that's a poor stroke from gurbaz

02:42well well well set better just a little bit of movement for chivanga really beautiful seam position

02:52here and it comes at a nice height to sukanda raza and there is the affirmation to his lord but

03:02very disappointed because it's it's been a productive stroke from abdul malik and he picks up yet another boundary

03:18excellent delivery better length some movement chance agitation oh dear oh dear it's all happening

03:26is there a run out just celebrating already

03:33this is really poor communication between ashman tula and abdul malik this wicked there's no real call

03:42here no communication confusion all around and nick welsh has the opportunity to run eight or nine yards

03:50turn around and get out of the stumps and very straightforward for tafaz watsiga to complete the dismissal

04:01he'll be punished for that

04:05way too much width on that one from

04:09brad evans to the shahidi

04:11outside edge gone it's a good catch at gully whilst diving away to his left and low

04:23and guess what around the wicket to the left hand has worked he's driven way outside the offstown because

04:29evans has probably brought the ball back into him a few times in the previous over but it was

04:34outside edge that's an outstanding catch from tafaz watsiga he's a tall man

04:46it's not the easiest catch to get down to but he does so absolutely outstanding by the fast bowler

04:52gets the outside edge and what about that catch from the keeper brilliant brilliant stuff this from zimbabwe

04:59they get another wicket definitely winning this

05:05guided away it will go to the boundary but not the most convincing

05:15he's held it he's just held at the last moment good thing that

05:20he didn't follow through with that could have spewed up anyway so lunch will be called yeah

05:27as part of the shahidi said he wanted to bat and bat he got the opportunity to do but

05:32two for 16 for revans a wicket apiece for chivanga and garawa

05:42the call is for two square boundaries here at harari sports club are massive so

05:48any little bit of width they will throw their hands at it

05:59it's a good piece of this but it goes behind square on the offside on this particular surface

06:09playing in that fashion

06:10on the surface at this venue doesn't last long bennett takes a good catch yeah no real attempt to get

06:18anywhere near this one just follows it with his hands and brian bennett takes another very good catch

06:24and msaravani picks up his second

06:33gone strangle down the leg side

06:37it was a delayed appeal

06:41from tiga but they heard something and the umpires also confirmed this is the wicket down the leg side

06:48strangled but uh tiga's moved well to get into position to take this one just takes us back to the

06:55support the bowlers

06:58plays a big shot chivanga yeah

07:03oh man

07:05it looked like he wasn't gonna get there but it's the dive that gets him there brad evans

07:12this is how he got his third wicket wonderful commitment here from tanaka chivanga to get both

07:21hands on this one and hold on to a difficult chance outside edge he's gone hard so it goes over the

07:30cordon for four to try and get a test career that was just wide of the field that should race away for

07:39to the boundary for another four

07:45some quality players

07:49wonderful delivery by evans and he gets another wicket number four for him

07:55and wonderful because of this one he's aimed straight at him look at that nipped off the seam

08:01came back at the batter had no way to go number four for him

08:07bold bradley evans gets his first five four in test match cricket for zimbabwe

08:17monumental effort in this afghanistan first innings

08:21and zimbabwe have wrapped them up for 127 this match for some time he's been injured

08:29he comes back into the test match a slow start with the ball

08:34where they could have taken the team to but great effort with the ball from zimbabwe

08:39led by evans and muzarabani they ball out of buckets

08:43shivanga picked up one of good bars the important one to break that partnership

08:48and then evans five for 25 for 20

08:55oh that's not the right line hasn't quite carried through to the keeper so it'll be buys for zimbabwe

09:03first up this issues crashed away through the offside with given and smashed to the boundary

09:15that

09:17bold

09:21don't worry about the technical changes it's the debutante through the gate up roots of stump

09:30and they've picked up there first

09:33pitching up just holding its line after pitching playing down the wrong line not a great shot

09:38from bennett yeah that's what matt henry did a lot to him in the test series over the years

09:45driving up his lead through the offside

09:48full commitment into the stroke and goal might trickle into the boundary for four

09:52wow he has absolutely crunched that for his first boundary

10:08now there's width this is a good shot from current

10:11and just lean back and

10:19really ensure that it puts in a good innings now that reaction doesn't look very good

10:25it's in the air for a while here and that's the attempt to get to this on the fall and this is very

10:31good very positive cricket isn't uh able to get his fingers underneath it it looks like he might

10:46final ball then before t at our sports club on day one partnership of 31 from 63 between current and

10:54walsh it was sharifi who picked the one wicket to fall for zimbabwe in that session

11:09in the air paula cannot get a hand on it leading edge he's got wonderful control about the lengths that he

11:17just there and there about the length

11:29edge and taken it was a brilliant over made life very difficult there for welsh and he's gone fishing

11:39outside the line of air off stamp leaving the right-hander oh he could be in trouble there

11:45who was stepping oh a life a life

11:54noble

11:57second opportunity

12:01for welsh he gets a second bite of the cherry

12:07it is found flies over the slip for four

12:11it's tricky yeah i'm asking lots of questions

12:25much better from nick walsh never gonna forget

12:28get it get it and that's a good shot from nick walsh and uh he gets a boundary early plays ben curran

12:41well he's hit that he's not afraid to take on the spinners and this is a good hit

12:46good attacking stroke spot lovely touchdown delivery goes against the turn that's a meaty connection

13:01looking to go leg side the ball skews through the gully off

13:05good discipline catch it it's up in the air but he's got enough on it to get it over but off and

13:18into the boundary so positive starts after the afternoon drinks break from welsh

13:23nicely done it's not all that short but he plays that stroke so well but similar sort of approach

13:36and then loses that momentum and doesn't lose a lot of his right side

13:45bolden

13:48that's a beauty

13:52late in the day

13:54through baton pad

13:57furniture well disturbed what a sight for a fast bowler

14:01this is it needed a good one to get rid of nick walsh and it's swung late

14:06gone and through that defense just as he was one short of what would have been his fourth test match 15.

14:16off and running

14:19overcompensates on that occasion taylor opens up he's a cup

14:27on cue

14:30smart

14:40it's a good shot it's an effective shot

14:46there it is

14:48bend current

14:51another half century and test match cricket but it's a really hard fought one

14:56his second

15:00in the barbed test match colors

15:05and what a wonderful opportunity he has to go on

15:08and make it a big one 108 balls

15:11well played

15:22130 for two

15:26and pick up another two wickets here especially one of these two other taylor taylor who's the experience

15:32player in this partnership current has been really good being watchful

15:36half century

15:38just an opportunity feels that if they could just have maybe got one more wicket

15:43would have been a better day after a poor performance with the bat good innings this by by current welsh

15:51it was a little bit of an interesting innings that he played managed to get to 49 of 88 got a beauty troll most of

15:58of the innings just towards the end just leaked a lot of runs

16:03my dad sharif who picked up the two wickets for 35

16:06really

16:07zimbabwe a hundred and thirty for two at the end of day one current on 52

16:14welsh gone for 49

16:16a league

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