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Flower and Marillier scale new heights
Wisden CricInfo staff - November 15, 2001
Steven Lynch collects the chitchat from Chittagong
Monday, November 19, 2001
Grant Flower and Doug Marillier both improved their best Test bowling figures in this match. In the first innings Flower took 4 for 41, surpassing the 2 for 101 he took against India at Nagpur in 2000-01. His match figures of 8 for 104 were also a new personal best. Flower also virtually doubled his Test wickets tally - in 55 Tests before this he had taken only 10 wickets.
Marillier improved his best figures twice, taking 2 for 39 in the first innings and 4 for 57 in the second. Before this match he had only bowled once in Tests - he took 1 for 16 at Dhaka in the first match of this series. Marillier was playing in his third Test.
Habibul Bashar made 108, his first Test hundred and the third by a Bangladeshi, following Aminul Islam's 145 in their inaugural Test, against India at Dhaka in 2000-01, and Mohammed Ashraful's 114 (also on debut) against Sri Lanka in Colombo in September. This was Bashar's and Bangladesh's seventh Test.
Bashar and Javed Omar added 122 in the second innings, a new second-wicket record for Bangladesh in Tests. It surpasses the 102 that they added in the first Test of this series at Dhaka.
Stuart Carlisle became the first Zimbabwean to win his first Test as captain. He is their sixth Test captain, after Dave Houghton, Andy Flower, Alistair Campbell, Heath Streak and Brian Murphy. Of the other five, only Houghton and Murphy avoided defeat.
Carlisle was the fifth man to captain Zimbabwe in an international match in the space of six weeks, after Guy Whittall, Heath Streak and Alistair Campbell, in the one-day series against England, and Murphy.
This was the first Test at the MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong, which became the 82nd ground to stage Test cricket. Bangladesh's other two home Tests were both played at the Bangabandhu Stadium in Dhaka.
Bangladesh's defeat is their sixth in seven matches as a Test-playing nation. The only time they have avoided defeat was in the first match of this series, a draw at Dhaka.
This was only Zimbabwe's second Test series victory overseas. They beat Pakistan 1-0 in a fog-affected series in Pakistan in 1998-99.
Craig Wishart made 112, his first Test hundred. Wishart was run out twice in the 90s in his last three Tests: he made 94 in his last innings, in the first Test against Bangladesh, and 93 against West Indies at Harare in 2001. He is playing in his 18th Test.
It is the second time this year that two batsmen have made maiden hundreds in the same innings. Mark Richardson and Matthew Bell did it for New Zealand in the third Test against Pakistan at Hamilton in March.
Zimbabwe made 547 for 7 declared, their highest total in overseas Tests. Their previous highest was 503 for 6, made against India at Nagpur in 2000-01. They have surpassed it twice at home though: they made 563 for 9 against West Indies at Harare in 2001 and 544 for 4 declared against Pakistan on the same ground in 1994-95.
Andy Flower made 110 not out, his 12th Test hundred and his first against Bangladesh. It continued his remarkable run of Test form. His career average now stands at 56.55, and in his last 11 Tests - starting in the first Test against India at Delhi in 2000-01 - Flower averages 132. His run of scores reads: 183*, 70, 55, 232*, 79, 73, 23, 51, 83, 45, 8*, 142, 199*, 67, 14*, 28, 110*
Trevor Gripper scored his first Test century, in his ninth match. His previous-best score was 60, made against Australia on debut at Harare in 1999-2000.
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