Zimbabwe Beat Bangladesh For First Test Win In Four Years

First Test, Sylhet (day 4 of four)

Bangladesh 191 (Monimul 56) & 255 (Shanto 60; Muzarabani 6-72)

Zimbabwe 273 (Williams 59; Mehidy 5-52) & 174-7 (Bennett 54; Mehidy 5-50)

Zimbabwe won by 3 wickets; lead two-match bid 1-0

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Zimbabwe won their first Test lucifer successful 4 years pinch a three-wicket triumph complete Bangladesh successful Sylhet.

Chasing 174, nan visitors slipped from 95-0 to 161-7, enduring a tense decorativeness earlier Wesley Madhevere closed nan lucifer pinch a four.

Zimbabwe group up their triumph successful nan greeting convention of nan last day, reducing Bangladesh from 194-4 to 255 each out, pinch subordinate of nan lucifer Blessing Muzarabani taking 6-72.

The erstwhile Northamptonshire seamer snared nan important wicket of Bangladesh skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto for 60 pinch nan 2nd shot of nan day, and went connected to region Mehidy Hasan Miraz (four) and past man Jaker Ali (58).

Brian Bennett (54) and Ben Curran (44) sewage nan pursuit disconnected to a beardown start, but some fell to all-rounder Miraz, who took 5-50 and vanished pinch lucifer figures of 10-102.

The 27-year-old's off-breaks threatened to resistance Bangladesh backmost into nan match, but their full proved excessively debased to defend, arsenic Zimbabwe sealed their first Test triumph since beating Afghanistan successful March 2021.

Zimbabwe will now activity a bid triumph successful nan 2nd and last Test opening successful Chattogram connected Monday, 28 April (05:00 BST).

It would beryllium their first bid triumph since beating Bangladesh successful a one-off Test successful August 2011, while they were facing nan aforesaid opponents for their past multi-match bid triumph successful 2004.

Following this circuit they will alert to England to play a one-off Test lucifer astatine Trent Bridge, starting connected 22 May.

They past toured England for Tests successful 2003, losing astatine Lord's and Chester-le-Street.