Savszim South Africa on Tuesday defeated Zimbabwe by 328 runs and equaled their records of winning the highest consecutive matches in men’s Test cricket. This is the ninth consecutive win of the current World Test Champion, which she equaled her records of the 2002-03 season.
Medium -speed bowler Corbin Bosch took five wickets for the first time in Test career, chasing a target of 537 runs, Zimbabwe’s team was reduced to 208 on the second innings on the second innings on the fourth day after lunch. This is the biggest defeat in Zimbabwe’s Test.
Bosch, who dismissed the opener Takudjwanashe Kiteano on the last ball of the past day, showed Nick Welch on the first ball of the day on Tuesday.
Experienced scenes Williams prevented him from completing a hat -trick, but he was among the five batsmen to be dismissed in the early hours of the day. The team started the day by 32 runs for one wicket, but soon its score was 82 runs for six wickets.
Captain Craig Ervin banned 49 and lower -order batsman Wellington Masakadja with an innings of 57 runs. Both shared an 83 -run partnership for the seventh wicket. Bosch broke the partnership by dismissing Ervin.
This is Masakadja’s first half -century in Tests. Bosch, playing his second Test, completed his five wickets by dismissing Vincent Maseca. He scored an unbeaten 100 in the first innings of the match. He is the first all -round in South Africa to take a century and five wickets in Tests after Jacques Kallis (2002). He is the fifth player of South Africa to perform this feat.
Corbin Bosch – First South African in 23 years to score a history and take a fifer in the same test. pic.twitter.com/ri4ko3sizo
– Mufaddal Vohra (@Mufaddal_vohra) July 1, 2025
Only four players of the South Africa team, which won the finals of the World Test Championship against Australia last month, were part of the match.
The team declared the first innings for 418 runs for nine wickets while scoring 369 runs in the second innings. Zimbabwe scored 251 in the first innings and 208 runs in the second innings.
The nineteen-year-old Luan-Dre Pritorius was adjudged ‘Player of the Match’ for the innings of 153 runs in his debut match. Two other players who made the Test debut were also impressed by Dewald Bravis and Kodi Yusuf. Brevis scored 51 runs and took one wicket, while medium -speed bowler Yusuf took three wickets for 42 runs in the first innings and three wickets for 22 runs in the second innings. The second Test of the series will be played at this site from Sunday.(Language)
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