- Test no. 1348 | 1996/97 season
- Played at Harare Sports Club
- 26,27,28,29,30 December 1996 (5-day match)
| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| NV Knight | c †A Flower b Olonga | 15 | 33 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| MA Atherton* | c Campbell b Whittall | 13 | 89 | 49 | 0 | 1 | 26.53 | |
| AJ Stewart† | c GW Flower b Streak | 19 | 62 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 43.18 | |
| N Hussain | c †A Flower b Streak | 11 | 73 | 53 | 1 | 0 | 20.75 | |
| GP Thorpe | c Dekker b Streak | 5 | 37 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| JP Crawley | not out | 47 | 218 | 169 | 3 | 0 | 27.81 | |
| C White | c Campbell b Whittall | 9 | 59 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 19.14 | |
| RDB Croft | c GW Flower b Whittall | 14 | 79 | 55 | 2 | 0 | 25.45 | |
| D Gough | b Strang | 2 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| AD Mullally | c & b Whittall | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| PCR Tufnell | b Streak | 9 | 57 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 24.32 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 5, w 1, nb 5) | 12 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 83.1 overs; 353 mins) | 156 | (1.87 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-24 (Knight), 2-50 (Atherton), 3-50 (Stewart), 4-65 (Thorpe), 5-73 (Hussain), 6-94 (White), 7-128 (Croft), 8-133 (Gough), 9-134 (Mullally), 10-156 (Tufnell) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| HH Streak | 24.1 | 7 | 43 | 4 | 1.77 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| EA Brandes | 16 | 6 | 35 | 0 | 2.18 | |||
| HK Olonga | 9 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 2.55 | (3nb) | ||
| GJ Whittall | 16 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 1.12 | |||
| PA Strang | 18 | 7 | 31 | 1 | 1.72 |
| Zimbabwe 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GW Flower | c Crawley b Gough | 73 | 353 | 255 | 5 | 1 | 28.62 | |
| MH Dekker | c †Stewart b Mullally | 2 | 18 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 12.50 | |
| ADR Campbell* | c Thorpe b White | 22 | 71 | 53 | 2 | 0 | 41.50 | |
| DL Houghton | c †Stewart b Gough | 29 | 152 | 124 | 1 | 0 | 23.38 | |
| A Flower† | lbw b Gough | 6 | 49 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| AC Waller | lbw b Tufnell | 4 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 22.22 | |
| GJ Whittall | b Gough | 1 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 11.11 | |
| PA Strang | not out | 47 | 105 | 82 | 4 | 0 | 57.31 | |
| HH Streak | c Crawley b Croft | 7 | 44 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 20.58 | |
| EA Brandes | c Gough b Croft | 9 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 56.25 | |
| HK Olonga | c Hussain b Croft | 0 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 8, w 1, nb 6) | 15 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 105 overs; 427 mins) | 215 | (2.04 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-5 (Dekker), 2-46 (Campbell), 3-110 (Houghton), 4-131 (A Flower), 5-136 (Waller), 6-138 (Whittall), 7-159 (GW Flower), 8-197 (Streak), 9-211 (Brandes), 10-215 (Olonga) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AD Mullally | 23 | 7 | 32 | 1 | 1.39 | (1w) | ||
| D Gough | 26 | 10 | 40 | 4 | 1.53 | (3nb) | ||
| RDB Croft | 15 | 2 | 39 | 3 | 2.60 | |||
| C White | 16 | 4 | 41 | 1 | 2.56 | |||
| PCR Tufnell | 25 | 3 | 55 | 1 | 2.20 | (2nb) |
| England 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| NV Knight | c Campbell b Strang | 30 | 134 | 83 | 3 | 0 | 36.14 | |
| MA Atherton* | c Campbell b Streak | 1 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| AJ Stewart† | not out | 101 | 380 | 267 | 8 | 0 | 37.82 | |
| N Hussain | c Houghton b Strang | 6 | 34 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 16.21 | |
| GP Thorpe | not out | 50 | 220 | 169 | 6 | 0 | 29.58 | |
| Extras | (lb 5, w 1, nb 1) | 7 | ||||||
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| Total | (3 wickets; 93 overs; 391 mins) | 195 | (2.09 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat JP Crawley, C White, RDB Croft, D Gough, AD Mullally, PCR Tufnell |
| Fall of wickets1-7 (Atherton), 2-75 (Knight), 3-89 (Hussain) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| HH Streak | 18 | 5 | 47 | 1 | 2.61 | |||
| EA Brandes | 21 | 6 | 45 | 0 | 2.14 | (1w) | ||
| HK Olonga | 7 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 4.42 | (1nb) | ||
| GJ Whittall | 14 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 1.14 | |||
| PA Strang | 26 | 6 | 42 | 2 | 1.61 | |||
| GW Flower | 7 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 1.28 |
| Match details |
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Toss Zimbabwe, who chose to field Series 2-match series drawn 0-0 |
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Player of the match
GW Flower (Zimbabwe) |
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Umpires
KT Francis (Sri Lanka) and RB Tiffin TV umpire ID Robinson Match referee Hanumant Singh (India) |
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Close of play 26 Dec day 1 - England 1st innings 137/9 (JP Crawley 37*, PCR Tufnell 0*) 27 Dec day 2 - Zimbabwe 1st innings 93/2 (GW Flower 33*, DL Houghton 26*) 28 Dec day 3 - England 2nd innings 17/1 (NV Knight 6*, AJ Stewart 10*) 29 Dec day 4 - England 2nd innings 195/3 (AJ Stewart 101*, GP Thorpe 50*, 93 ov) 30 Dec day 5 - no play |
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Photos
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Dec 28, 1996 
Mike Atherton greets Robert Mugabe at John Barclay looks on © Getty Images |
Dec 28, 1996 
One for the family album: Mike Atherton with a grinning Robert Mugabe © Cricinfo Ltd |
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