{"id":55433,"date":"2025-08-09T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55433\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:11:09","slug":"new-zealand-beat-zimbabwe-third-biggest-test-victory-in-history-news-devon-conway-century-news-videos-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55433\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand beat Zimbabwe, third biggest Test victory in history, news, Devon Conway century, news, videos, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Zealand completed a crushing win by an innings and 359 runs on the third day of the second Test against Zimbabwe at Queens Sports Club on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Zak Foulkes, playing in his first Test match, took five for 37 as Zimbabwe were bowled out for 117 in their second innings.<\/p>\n

Nic Welch, batting at number three, made an unbeaten 47 and stood virtually alone against the New Zealand pace attack.<\/p>\n

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It was the third-biggest win by an innings in Test history.<\/p>\n

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England beat Australia by an innings and 579 runs at The Oval in London in 1938. Australia defeated South Africa by an innings and 360 runs in Johannesburg in 2001\/02.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe bowled well in the first innings after losing the toss,\u201d said Mitch Santner, who captained New Zealand in both Tests in the absence of the injured Tom Latham.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the batsmen got through some tough periods with their partnerships and then cashed in.\u201d New Zealand\u2019s previous biggest win – and Zimbabwe\u2019s previous heaviest defeat – was by an innings and 301 runs when the two teams met in Napier in 2011\/12.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe suffered their sixth successive defeat – four of them by an innings – since beating Bangladesh in Sylhet in April.<\/p>\n

New Zealand declared their first innings closed on their overnight total of 601 for three.<\/p>\n

It took only three balls for Matt Henry to start the home team\u2019s collapse when he bowled Brian Bennett for his second duck of the match.<\/p>\n

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Henry had Brendan Taylor caught at second slip and Jacob Duffy caught Sean Williams off his own bowling before Matthew Fisher had Zimbabwe captain Craig Ervine held at third slip.<\/p>\n

Foulkes, who briefly returned to New Zealand after a triangular Twenty20 series but was recalled after Nathan Smith was injured in the first Test, took the next five wickets.<\/p>\n

Foulkes had match figures of nine for 77.<\/p>\n

Devon Conway, who scored 153 for New Zealand, was player of the match while Henry, who took 16 wickets across the two matches, was player of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand completed a crushing win by an innings and 359 runs on the third day of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[6074,64,63,689,44877,45898,17302,45890,45888,740,45899,45893,2057,763,45891,44212,2105,45892,45900,45901,45884,2022,45897,45895,45894,3453,45889,45886,1736,3583,677,45896,20496,1183,18780,85,23037,45887,45885,3586,45883,41283],"class_list":["post-55433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-africa","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-chairman","tag-batting-order","tag-brendan-taylor","tag-brian-bennett","tag-craig-ervine","tag-cricket","tag-crushing-win","tag-eastern-africa-sub-saharan-africa","tag-europe","tag-fox-league","tag-gauteng","tag-george-bailey","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-heaviest-defeat","tag-home-team","tag-jacob-duffy","tag-johannesburg","tag-london","tag-lone-hand","tag-matt-henry","tag-matthew-fisher","tag-mitch-marsh","tag-mitch-santner","tag-nathan-smith","tag-new-zealand","tag-northern-europe","tag-oceania","tag-record-breaking-rout","tag-sean-williams","tag-south-africa","tag-southern-africa","tag-sports","tag-tim-david","tag-tim-southee","tag-tom-latham","tag-united-kingdom","tag-zak-foulkes","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}