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England vs Zimbabwe, Only Test at Nottingham, ENG v ZIM, May 22 2025 - Live Cricket Score

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Only Test, Nottingham, May 22 - 25, 2025, Zimbabwe tour of England
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565/6d
(35 ov) (fo) 265 & 141/3

Day 3 - Session 1: Zimbabwe trail by 159 runs.

Current RR: 4.02
 • Min. Ov. Rem: 66
 • Last 10 ov (RR): 40/1 (4.00)
Test CAREER
BattersRB4s6sSRThis Bowlerlast 10 ovs
36961037.505 (13b)9 (30b)
9111081.812 (8b)9 (11b)
BowlersOMRWEcon0s4s6sThis spell
602514.1622305 - 0 - 23 - 1
1005715.7031704 - 0 - 16 - 0
MatRunsHSAve
63496831.73
19130212736.17
MatWktsBBIAve
16535/4138.77
3125/6630.83
Partnership: 12 Runs, 2.3 Ov (RR: 4.8) Last BatSean Williams 88 (82b) FOW129/3 (32.3 Ov)
Reviews Remaining: England - 2 of 3, Zimbabwe - 2 of 3
DRS
2
34th
3
4
1
33rd
1
1lb
W
1
32nd
1
1
1
31st
1
1
Match centre Ground time: 13:06
Scores: K Vairavan | Comms: Alan Gardner
end of over 352 runs
ZIM: 141/3CRR: 4.02 
Sikandar Raza9 (11b 1x4)
Ben Curran36 (96b 1x4)
Shoaib Bashir 6-0-25-1
Josh Tongue 10-0-57-1

1.02pm: Nutritious and delicious. A fine fighting effort from Zimbabwe, full of fibre. They chiselled more than 100 off the deficit for the loss of just one wicket, Sean Williams perhaps unlucky to depart lbw for a fluent 88 off 82 balls. England tried plenty but didn't create much; with Ben Curran firmly embedded, Zimbabwe will hope they can stretch this game out further. Go grab some scran, Rashad Mahbub will be here in half an hour

34.6
Bashir to Raza, no run

pushed through, 56mph and gripping on off, blocked half forward - and that will be lunch

Short leg in now, too

34.5
Bashir to Raza, no run

slows his pace, turned off the front pad to short midwicket

Farai Leboho: "Ben is looking more like an anchor Zim needs just to stay afloat, which is really what they simply need to do. JUST DON'T FOLD. @Nes, your prophesy under test here."

34.4
Bashir to Raza, no run

gives it some air, 55mph/88kph on a wider line. Steered to backward point

34.3
Bashir to Raza, no run

floated up, defended going back on off

34.2
2
Bashir to Raza, 2 runs

steps out to drive, punched in front of the sweeper, Cook does well to keep them to two

34.1
Bashir to Raza, no run

over the wicket, tossed up on off stump. Raza bends himself into a forwrd defensive

Possibly the last one before lunch. Slip and leg slip

end of over 348 runs
ZIM: 139/3CRR: 4.08 
Ben Curran36 (96b 1x4)
Sikandar Raza7 (5b 1x4)
Josh Tongue 10-0-57-1
Shoaib Bashir 5-0-23-1
33.6
Tongue to Ben Curran, no run

over the wicket, back of a length in the channel, 86mph/138kph. Left alone

"Excellent innings from Williams," opines Dave Fern. "England's lunch will taste just a little bit sweeter with that wicket."

33.5
Tongue to Ben Curran, no run

dug in, Curran looks to pull, gets a bottom edge into the leg side

33.4
3
Tongue to Raza, 3 runs

cut away through point, this one doesn't have the timing to get to the rope

33.3
Tongue to Raza, no run

back of a length, defended on off stump

"Wasn't rain expected today?" There was some overnight/early this morning, Ishaan Karki. But we might get away with it from here on

33.2
4
Tongue to Raza, FOUR runs

short and smashed! Tongue is bowling round the wicket, angled across. Raza just stays back and sends a rasping back-foot punch through point

33.1
1
Tongue to Ben Curran, 1 run

dug in short and nurdled off the body behind square

Tongue again, field spread

end of over 333 runs • 1 wicket
ZIM: 131/3CRR: 3.96 
Ben Curran35 (93b 1x4)
Sikandar Raza0 (2b)
Shoaib Bashir 5-0-23-1
Josh Tongue 9-0-49-1

Here's RobP, eyeing up a slice of humble pie for lunch: "Afternoon Alan. I never thought that Bashir was the answer to England's spin question but he keeps taking wickets and proving me wrong"

32.6
1
Bashir to Ben Curran, 1 run

dropped on a length, 56mph/90kph and worked around the corner by Curran for one

32.5
1lb
Bashir to Raza, 1 leg bye

flicked off the front pad, was there some inside edge? Looped wide of leg slip, either way

32.4
Bashir to Raza, no run

over the wicket, angled in on the stumps, defended

In comes Sikandar Raza. Still been an excellent session for Zimbabwe

32.3
W
Bashir to Williams, OUT

hit on the pads sweeping, and Dharmasena gives another! Williams reviews, though. Will this one stick? He missed with a paddle to leg, the ball skidding on to hit him in line with middle... and it's clipping the top of leg stump! Umpire's call by the barest of margins, and Williams is a goner! He was closing in on the honours board, and potentially reclaiming his fastest hundred mantle for Zimbabwe; but it won't be happening today. Bashir finally breaks through for England, 10 minutes before lunch

Sean Williams lbw b Shoaib Bashir 88 (82b 16x4 0x6 114m) SR: 107.31
32.2
Bashir to Williams, no run

floated up,56mph/86kph outside off, steered into the covers

32.1
1
Bashir to Ben Curran, 1 run

punched to mid-off coming forwards

end of over 323 runs
ZIM: 128/2CRR: 4.00 
Sean Williams88 (80b 16x4)
Ben Curran33 (91b 1x4)
Josh Tongue 9-0-49-1
Shoaib Bashir 4-0-21-0
31.6
Tongue to Williams, no run

short again, too high outside off and left alone

31.5
1
Tongue to Ben Curran, 1 run

dug in, 82mph/131kph on the body and pulled through backward square for one more

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Current batters
Spike Graph
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BJ Curran
36 runs (96)
1 four0 six
Productive shot
flick
8 runs
0 four0 six
Control
82%
Sikandar Raza
9 runs (11)
1 four0 six
Productive shot
square drive
7 runs
1 four0 six
Control
91%
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10
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0
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57
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1
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122 (153)
31 (71)
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12* (15)
2 (4)
Match details
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
TossZimbabwe, elected to field first
Series
Season2025
Match numberTest no. 2584
Hours of play (local time)11.00 start, Lunch 13.00-13.40, Tea 15.40-16.00, Close 18.00
Match days22,23,24,25 May 2025 - day (4-day match)
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