Indians' highest score in Zimbabwe

By Mohandas Menon

The total of 447-4 decl. against the CFX Academy at Harare was the highest made by any Indian team on Zimbabwean soil. It betters the previous best of 400-5 decl. made against the ZCU Presidents XI at the Sunrise Club, Harare in October 1998. Just for the record, the highest ever total made in Zimbabwe is the 600-6 decl. by the Sri Lankans against the Mashonaland Country Districts XI at Harare in 1994-95.

The three hundreds in the Indian innings equals the second best such performance by a team in Zimbabwe first-class cricket. A best of four hundreds were recorded by Sri Lankan batsmen in the same innings against a ZCU Presidents XI at Harare in 1994-95.

Meanwhile, Hemang Badani (112 not out) recorded his fifth first- class hundred in his 43rd match of his career. It was the eight hundred scored by an Indian batsman in Zimbabwe, if we are to consider the 101 scored by Ravi Shastri for the Young Indians against Zimbabwe at Harare in March 1984.

Badani now emulates Shastri (above) and Sanjay Manjrekar (104, for India against Zimbabwe at Harare in October 1992) to become the third Indian batsman to score a hundred on his first appearance on Zimbabwean soil.

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