Close of play 18 Oct day 1 - Zimbabwe 1st innings 188/3 (AJ Pycroft 6*, MG Burmester 2*) 19 Oct day 2 - Zimbabwe 1st innings 406/5 (DL Houghton 110*, A Flower 55*) 20 Oct day 3 - India 1st innings 93/4 (SV Manjrekar 27*, SLV Raju 0*) 21 Oct day 4 - India 1st innings 278/7 (SV Manjrekar 100*, KS More 23*) 22 Oct day 5 - Zimbabwe 2nd innings 146/4 (66 ov) - end of match
Match notes
Scorers : Wendy Gilmour, Sahal Laher
First ever Test for Zimbabwe.
Except AJ Traicos, the remaining 10 Zimbabwe players debuted.
Traicos, at the age of 45, created a world record of longest interval between two appearences in test history. His last appearence was for South Africa at Port Elizabeth on 10 Mar 1970 (interval = 22 years & 222 days). He broke G Gunn's (Eng) record of 17 years and 316 days.
Traicos is the 14th player to have played for two different countries.
Umpire HD Bird equalled Frank Chester's record of umpiring 48 tests.
Zim 1st innings
Maiden test century (on debut) by Houghton. 1st for Zimbabwe. Houghton 121 in 414 min, 322 balls, 15x4
Houghton's catch was More's 100th dismissal.
Ind 1st innings
Manjrekar 4th slowest century, and slowest by an Indian 100* came in 508 min, 422 balls, 7x4 104 in 529 min, 422 balls, 7x4