West Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2017–18

West Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2017–18
	Zimbabwe	West Indies
Dates	15 October – 2 November 2017
Captains	Graeme Cremer	Jason Holder
Test series
Result	West Indies won the 2-match series 1–0
Most runs	Hamilton Masakadza (251)	Shai Hope (174)
Most wickets	Graeme Cremer (9)	Devendra Bishoo (13)
Player of the series	Devendra Bishoo (WI)

The West Indies cricket team toured Zimbabwe in October and November 2017 to play two Tests matches for the Clive Lloyd Trophy.^[1] The teams last played a Test match against each other in March 2013.^[2] Ahead of the Test series, the two teams also played a three-day warm-up fixture.^[3] The series marked the international comebacks of Brendan Taylor and Kyle Jarvis, after their resignation from their Kolpak deals.^[4] West Indies won the series 1–0, after the final match finished in a draw.^[5] It was the first Test series win for the West Indies with Jason Holder as captain, and the first time that Zimbabwe had drawn a Test match since playing Bangladesh in January 2005.^[6]

Squads

Tests
Zimbabwe[7]	West Indies[8]
Graeme Cremer (c) Regis Chakabva Chamu Chibhabha Michael Chinouya Tendai Chisoro Craig Ervine Kyle Jarvis Hamilton Masakadza Nyasha Mayavo Solomon Mire Peter Moor (wk) Christopher Mpofu Sikandar Raza Brendan Taylor Malcolm Waller Sean Williams	Jason Holder (c) Devendra Bishoo Jermaine Blackwood Kraigg Brathwaite Roston Chase Miguel Cummins Shane Dowrich (wk) Shannon Gabriel Shimron Hetmyer Kyle Hope Shai Hope Alzarri Joseph Kieran Powell Raymon Reifer Kemar Roach

Tour match

Three-day match: Zimbabwe A v West Indies

15–17 October 2017 Scorecard

West Indies	v	Zimbabwe A
336/7d (97.1 overs) Shai Hope 85 (107) Michael Chinouya 2/55 (19 overs)		143 (44.1 overs) Peter Moor 32 (34) Shannon Gabriel 2/5 (6 overs)
263/5d (68 overs) Kieran Powell 77 (162) Ryan Burl 1/5 (2 overs)		70/4 (27 overs) Chamu Chibhabha 24 (57) Devendra Bishoo 1/5 (7 overs)

Match drawn Bulawayo Athletic Club, Bulawayo Umpires: Christopher Phiri (Zim) and Langton Rusere (Zim)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
• 15 players per side (11 batting, 11 fielding).

Test series

1st Test

21–25 October 2017[n 1] Scorecard

West Indies	v	Zimbabwe
219 (82.5 overs) Shai Hope 90* (201) Graeme Cremer 4/64 (23.5 overs)		159 (61.3 overs) Hamilton Masakadza 42 (78) Devendra Bishoo 5/79 (24 overs)
373 (126 overs) Roston Chase 95 (139) Graeme Cremer 4/114 (34 overs)		316 (90.4 overs) Brendan Taylor 73 (151) Devendra Bishoo 4/105 (32 overs)

West Indies won by 117 runs Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (SL) and Paul Reiffel (Aus) Player of the match: Devendra Bishoo (WI)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
• Solomon Mire (Zim) made his Test debut.

2nd Test

29 October–2 November 2017 Scorecard

Zimbabwe	v	West Indies
326 (109.1 overs) Hamilton Masakadza 147 (240) Kemar Roach 3/44 (18.1 overs)		448 (178.2 overs) Jason Holder 110 (198) Sikandar Raza 5/99 (48 overs)
301/7 (144 overs) Sikandar Raza 89 (203) Shannon Gabriel 2/34 (21 overs)

Match drawn Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (SL) and Simon Fry (Aus) Player of the match: Sikandar Raza (Zim)

• Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat.
• Only 61 overs were bowled on day 1 due to rain.
• Tendai Chisoro (Zim) made his Test debut.
• Hamilton Masakadza (Zim) became the fifth batsman for Zimbabwe to score 2,000 runs in Tests.^[9]
• Devendra Bishoo (WI) took his 100th wicket in Tests.^[10]
• Sikandar Raza (Zim) took his first five-wicket haul in Tests.^[11]
• Shane Dowrich (WI) scored his maiden century in Tests.^[12]
• Jason Holder and Shane Dowrich made the highest total for the eighth-wicket for the West Indies in Tests (212).^[12] This was only the second time in Test cricket that two batsmen coming in at number 8 or lower had scored a century in the same innings.^[13]

Notes

1. While five days of play were scheduled for each Test, the first Test reached a result within four days.

References

1. "Future Tours Programme" (PDF). International Cricket Council. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
2. "West Indies wary of resurgent Zimbabwe". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
3. "Windies to play two Tests in Zimbabwe". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
4. "Zimbabwe to host West Indies for two Tests in October". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
5. "Cremer, Chakabva script Zimbabwe's great escape". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
6. "Raza helps Zimbabwe carve out a draw". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
7. "Taylor, Jarvis return to Zimbabwe Test squad". ESPN Cricinfo. ESPN Sports Media. 17 October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
8. "West Indies name unchanged squad for Zimbabwe tour". ESPN Cricinfo. ESPN Sports Media. 3 October 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
9. "Masakadza's century rescues Zim". The Zimbabwe Daily. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
10. "Windies steady in reply to Zimbabwe's 326". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
11. "Holder, Dowrich drive West Indies into the ascendancy". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
12. "Raza, Moor help Zimbabwe battle into fifth day". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
13. Shiva Jayaraman. "Dowrich and Holder emulate 109-year-old feat". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo