West Indies vs Zimbabwe

Amid the Bazball era and a trillion T20 leagues, Kraigg Brathwaite and Tagenarine Chanderpaul brought out the good old-fashioned Test match cricket grind to ...

Tsiga sprung to his right, but was late in getting his glove up as the ball raced away to the fence. Brathwaite reached his half-century - his seventh fifty-plus score in the last 12 innings - first with a drive past mid-off off 116 balls. The fielders went up in unison, but the umpire remained unmoved, and there was no DRS in place to challenge the decision. There was also a chance in the 20th over when he seemed to glove a short-of-a-length Richard Ngarava delivery to the wicketkeeper. Even when the ball started to keep low, Brathwaite and Chanderpaul remained unfazed. While there was a bit of movement early on under cloudy skies, the West Indies openers dug in to remain undefeated when heavy rain brought about an early end to the day's proceedings with only 51 overs possible.

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (CMC): West Indies, choosing to bat, were 112 without loss in their first innings against Zimbabwe when rain prompted an early tea break ...

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Captain Kraigg Brathwaite and fellow opener Tagenarine Chanderpaul both scored half centuries as the West Indies reached 112-0 before rain washed out play ...

It was just a good day of old-fashioned Test cricket.” “It was a very good surface for Test cricket. “The pitch looked good for batting, but obviously we knew rain would be a factor,” Brathwaite said.