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Pool
D : England Vs Zimbabwe at Edgbaston
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England
register an easy victory over Zims
Report
by Anusha Chaterjee
Sept.
11th, 2004
Hosts
of this edition of Champions Trophy, England
began their campaign in grand fashion beating
Zimbabwe by a whopping 152 runs at Edgbaston.
The match was spread in two days as
yesterday’s play was washed out with England
at 195/5 after 38 overs. Paul Colingwood played
a sensational innings of 80* to help England add
101 runs in the remaining 12 overs of their
innings. Collingwood was well supported by first
Geraint Jones who scored 38 and then Ashley
Giles who scored 23*. Chasing a difficult target
of 300, Zimbabwe got off to a horrendous start
with their scorecard reading 66/5. Harmison and
Gough picked up a couple of wickets. At this
stage, Zimbabwe looked to be bowled under 100
but skipper Tateinda Taibu and Chigumbura put on
a 42 runs partnership for the 6th
wicket. Once Taibu (40 off 61 balls with 3 fours
and 2 sixes) was out after getting hit wicket to
Ashley Giles, the Zimbabwe innings started to
fold and the innings and the match came to a
close with Zimbabwe all out for 147 in 39 overs.
Chigumbara was unbeaten on a fighting knock of
42 with 6 fours and a six. Steve Harmison was as
usual impressive with 3/29 in his 10 overs and
Andrew Flintoff picking up 3 wickets for 11 runs
in just 6 overs.
Yesterday,
Zimbabwe had won the toss and they opted to
field first. The Zimbabwean bowlers did a decent
job to restrict the England’s batsmen to
123/4, which also included wickets of the
dangerous Marcus Treschothick and Andrew
Flintoff. Vikram Solanki, who has been in good
form anchored the innings with a stroke filled
62 with 10 fours. England were 198/5 in 38 overs
and that was when the rain started to pour down
and the match was resumed today.
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