England’s Shoaib Bashir blooms as Zimbabwe wilt

By Charles Reynolds

May 22-25, Trent Bridge, Nottingham

England 565-6d (Pope 171, Duckett 140, Muzarabani 3-143)

Zimbabwe 265 (Bennett 139, Bashir 3-62, Stokes 2-11) & 255 f/o (Williams 88, Raza 60, Bashir 6-81, Atkinson 1-17)
England won by an innings and 45 runs
Toss: Zimbabwe won the toss and decided to field.
Officials: Allahudien Paleker, Kumar Dharmasena, Ahsan Raza, Jeff Crowe, Russell Warren
The tourists arrived at the ground already two wickets down in their second innings and still 270 runs behind England – and with leaden skies above Trent Bridge, many expected things to be…

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