Player of the Match
Player of the Match
2174dThe Report by Firdose Moonda

Waller takes Zimbabwe to record win

Zimbabwe's two big-hitting all-rounders, Elton Chigumbura and Malcolm Waller, finally came good, with a 112-run sixth-wicket partnership to end a 12-match losing streak across formats

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Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

LRPL Taylor
LRPL Taylor
119(126) 9x4 - 3x6
Control %84%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 33 runs
  • 2x4 - 1x6
2 1 24 14 13 8 13 44
KS Williamson
KS Williamson
100(69) 11x4 - 1x6
Control %74%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 21 runs
  • 1x4 - 0x6
5 6 13 16 9 11 3 37

Best performances - Bowlers

JDP Oram
JDP Oram
O9.5
M0
R44
W3
Eco4.47
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
N Ncube
O8.5
M1
R69
W3
Eco7.81
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

New Zealand , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Player Of The Series

Series result

New Zealand won the 3-match series 2-1

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

09.30 start, First Session 09.30-13.00, Interval 13.00-13.45, Second Session 13.45-17.15

Match days

25 October 2011 (50-over match)

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Scorer: Sanjay Murari | Commentator: Sidharth Monga

New Zealand get a shield for winning the series. They don't look really kicked. The loss must be gutting for them. Jesse Ryder of all people gets to uncork the champagne. Those are the scenes we leave you with. Lovely day of cricket. Cheers for tuning in

Time to listen to the Taylors and the Man of the Match. Brendan Taylor is the Man of the Series. He says, "Awesome feeling. Nice to end the way we did. Nice to salvage a bit of pride. All credit to New Zealand. We will take a lot out of this. We have a little bit of momentum now. From start to finish the guys were positive in their approach. No nails left. The crowd always turns up, this one is for them, and everyone who has shown up in the past."

Malcolm Waller is the Man of the Match. "Feeling really good," says he. "Good to come out winning this game. Great. To take it right through the end was very good. Having Elto striking it s well was great. I was a bit nervous at times, but Elton took the pressure off with the big hits, and Razor in the end was great."

"I thought 320 was a par score. It was a pretty good wicket. The way Kane batted was fantastic, but Zimbabwe batted superbly," says Ross. "The story of this series has been, if you drop catches, you lose matches. I was a bit rusty and enjoyed some luck with the bat. Kane was outstanding. We could have bowled a bit straighter, but I am going to put my hand up. I dropped two easy catches, and if you do that you are going to lose matches."

Stumps are taken out, hands are shaken, hugs exchanged. This is a huge day for Zimbabwe cricket. Elton Chigumbura says before the ball he thought he would punch it down the ground, but the impulse took over. Just an example of how easy the game looks when played with fingers and a keyboard. "Sid, printed in triplet and the carbon paper joins the meal...Enjoy!!! this is a good day to die! :)" Although I don't like the first half of Luke's email, the latter half sums up just how much this means to Zimbabwe fans. Liam Brickhill must be dancing somewhere too. "Three consecutive Taylor centuries on the losing team? Maybe they should both score a ton next time." Brendan, that's what kept this from being a tie. Had Brendan reached his hundred I am sure we would have had a tie. Ironic that Ross Taylor himself dropped two-and-a-half catches in the end

49.5
1
Oram to Waller, 1 run, Waller does it as coolly as he has done in the rest of his innings. Short of a length, outside off, pushes it with an open face, past short cover, between point and cover-point, and yes they run like hell. I wonder if he thought of hitting a boundary to get the hundred? Who cares? Zimbabwe have won. Their biggest chase ever

Ncube walks out, gets a knock on the glove from Price. All he has to do is run like hell when Waller calls him, Anybody thinking of Lance Klusener? This is not Australia and South Africa, but their neighbours

49.4
W
Oram to Price, OUT, the game stays alive, but Price might have done just enough. Short of a length, Price tries to clear the leg-side field. The top edge goes nowhere, but Waller makes sure he moves to the striking end by the time the catch is taken

RW Price c BB McCullum b Oram 2 (15m 7b 0x4 0x6) SR: 28.57

49.3
0
Oram to Price, no run, yorker, hit to short midwicket, sent back

Everybody is up now

49.2
1
Oram to Waller, 1 run, Taylor has choked. He has dropped Waller thrice. This is a dolly. Taylor had just moved to short midwicket, and Waller hit straight at him. Out through the hands
49.1
2
Oram to Waller, 2 runs, Taylor has put down a half chance and is down on his haunches. Slower short ball, mis-hit towards midwicket, high to Taylor's right, who leaps, outstretches his right hand, touches the ball, but can't hold onto it. What's more? He has parried it wide of long-on to allow the second

Big Jake Jacob Oram to bowl the last over. Can he pull a rabbit out here? New Zealand's best bet would be to give him the single here, and then tie Pierce to this end

END OF OVER:
49 | 6 Runs | ZIM: 325/8 (4 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 6.63, RRR: 4.00)

  • Malcolm Waller95 (71b)
  • Ray Price2 (5b)
  • Luke Woodcock9-0-58-2
  • Graeme Aldridge9-0-53-0
48.6
1
Woodcock to Waller, 1 run, no, he has worked too hard to risk it in one low-percentage shot now. He pushes this to long-off for one, and keeps strike

If he gets a single here, this is Zimbabwe's game. Or will he go for the hit to end it now?

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Zimbabwe 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st0H MasakadzaV Sibanda
2nd100H MasakadzaBRM Taylor
3rd59T TaibuH Masakadza
4th5T TaibuF Mutizwa
5th19T TaibuMN Waller
6th112E ChigumburaMN Waller
7th1MN WallerKO Meth
8th12MN WallerN Mushangwe
9th20RW PriceMN Waller
10th1MN WallerN Ncube