The Zimbabwe cricket team got its first victory in Test cricket in the year 1995. Although the story of this victory was interesting
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The Test history of Zimbabwe cricket team started in the year 1992. He played his first Test match against India in Harare. She failed to win the match but did not lose either. This match was a draw. winning his first test match Zimbabwe Took three years. In the year 1995, he got a chance to win in this format for the first time. The story of this victory is quite interesting. Pakistani captain Salim Malik’s joke or rather a ‘bird’ gave this victory to Zimbabwe.
In the year 1995, on the tour of Zimbabwe, the Pakistan team had to play three ODIs and three Test matches. Zimbabwe had troubled the visiting team a lot. Pakistan was successful in winning the Test series but had to start the series with a defeat. And this was the historic victory of Zimbabwe.
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‘Bird’ drowns Salim Malik
The first match of the three-Test series was to be played between the two teams in Harare on 31 January. On the first day of the match, Pakistan captain Salim Malik and Zimbabwe captain Andy Flower landed on the ground for the toss. As per the rule, Flower, being the host captain, showed the toss coin to Salim Malik. On one side of the coin, an eagle was made, which is the national bird of Zimbabwe. When the coin was tossed, Salim Malik jokingly said not head or tail but bird. The coin fell on the same side where the eagle was. Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat first.
Zimbabwe won the first test match
Match referee Jackie Hendricks did not agree with this. He decided to toss again. This time Andy Flower won and he chose to bat first. Pakistan did not like this and they expressed their intentions by taking three wickets in the first session. Zimbabwe’s score was 42/3. From here Andy Flower (156 runs) and Grant Flower (201 runs) shared a partnership of more than 200 runs. On the basis of the pair of these brothers, Zimbabwe scored 544 runs in the first innings. Pakistan’s team could score only 322 runs on the basis of the excellent bowling of Heath Streak. The hosts decided to follow on. This time David Bray, Heath Steak and Guy Witall took three wickets each and bundled out Pakistan for 158 runs. In this way Zimbabwe won the match by an innings and 64 runs. However, they lost the remaining two matches of the series and lost the series 1-2.
