Zimbabwe v New Zealand, 2015-16
Wisden's review of the second ODI, Zimbabwe v New Zealand, 2015-16
15-Apr-2016
Second one-day international At Harare, August 4, 2015. New Zealand won by ten wickets. ‡Zimbabwe 235-9 (50 overs) (C. J. Chibhabha 42, Sikandar Raza 100*, T. Panyangara 33; I. S. Sodhi 3-38); New Zealand 236-0 (42.2 overs) (M. J. Guptill 116*, T. W. M. Latham 100*). MoM: M. J. Guptill and T. W. M. Latham.
New Zealand levelled the series with an emphatic victory, their seventh by ten wickets in ODIs. Martin Guptill and Tom Latham shared their second-highest opening partnership, after the 274 of James Marshall and Brendon McCullum against Ireland at Aberdeen in 2008; it was also the second-highest against Zimbabwe, behind 282 by Upul Tharanga and Tillekeratne Dilshan for Sri Lanka at Pallekele in 2010-11. Latham's century was his first in ODIs, in his 28th match, while Guptill passed 4,000 runs in the course of his eighth. For the second game in a row, the winning run was a wide (this time from Sean Williams). Earlier, Zimbabwe had slumped to 146-8 before Sikandar Raza, whose third ODI hundred included four sixes (two off successive balls from Williamson), and Tinashe Panyangara put on 89 for the ninth wicket, beating one of Zimbabwe's oldest records - the 55 added by Kevin Curran and Peter Rawson against West Indies in only their sixth official international, during the 1983 World Cup at Edgbaston.
New Zealand levelled the series with an emphatic victory, their seventh by ten wickets in ODIs. Martin Guptill and Tom Latham shared their second-highest opening partnership, after the 274 of James Marshall and Brendon McCullum against Ireland at Aberdeen in 2008; it was also the second-highest against Zimbabwe, behind 282 by Upul Tharanga and Tillekeratne Dilshan for Sri Lanka at Pallekele in 2010-11. Latham's century was his first in ODIs, in his 28th match, while Guptill passed 4,000 runs in the course of his eighth. For the second game in a row, the winning run was a wide (this time from Sean Williams). Earlier, Zimbabwe had slumped to 146-8 before Sikandar Raza, whose third ODI hundred included four sixes (two off successive balls from Williamson), and Tinashe Panyangara put on 89 for the ninth wicket, beating one of Zimbabwe's oldest records - the 55 added by Kevin Curran and Peter Rawson against West Indies in only their sixth official international, during the 1983 World Cup at Edgbaston.