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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Record-breaking Motie spins WI to dominant series win

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West Indies players celebrate after winning the trophy at the end of the second Test cricket match between Zimbabwe and West Indies at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Tuesday.

West Indies players celebrate after winning the trophy at the end of the second Test cricket match between Zimbabwe and West Indies at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Tuesday.

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BU­L­AWAYO – Rook­ie Gu­dakesh Motie notched a record-break­ing 13-wick­et match haul to spin dom­i­nant West In­dies to a crush­ing in­nings and four-run vic­to­ry over min­nows Zim­bab­we in the de­ci­sive fi­nal Test in Zim­bab­we on Tues­day.

The 27-year-old, in on­ly his third Test, claimed six for 62 to fol­low up his ca­reer-best sev­en-wick­et haul in the first in­nings as Zim­bab­we, trail­ing by 177 on first in­nings, col­lapsed to 173 all out in their sec­ond in­nings, about 15 min­utes af­ter tea on the third day of the con­test at Queens Sports Club.

Motie fin­ished with Man-of-the-Match fig­ures of 13 for 99 – the best ever by a West In­dies spin­ner in Tests – while sur­pass­ing the leg­endary trio of Son­ny Ra­mad­hin, Alf Valen­tine and Lance Gibbs, all of whom claimed ca­reer-best 11-wick­et hauls.

The Guyanese, who al­so earned Man-of-the-Se­ries ho­n­ours, be­came the first West In­dies left-arm spin­ner since Valen­tine 60 years ago to take 10 wick­ets in a Test.

With the vic­to­ry, West In­dies earned a 1-0 se­ries re­sult, to keep in­tact their record of hav­ing nev­er lost a Test to the African na­tion.

Re­sum­ing the morn­ing on 290 for eight, the Caribbean side man­aged to add just a fur­ther two runs, the in­nings last­ing on­ly 11 more de­liv­er­ies.

Ja­son Hold­er (3) edged the very first ball of the day from seam­er Vic­tor Nyauchi (5-56) to be caught at the wick­et and Motie holed out in the bowler’s next over for 12, to leave the 30-year-old with his maid­en five-wick­et haul in Tests.

Armed with a handy lead, West In­dies pressed home their ad­van­tage when seam­er Alzarri Joseph in­duced Tanunur­wa Makoni (1) to nick a dri­ve be­hind and Hold­er got Chamu Chib­hab­ha (1) to play on at 15 for two.

Cap­tain Craig Ervine then came to his side’s res­cue with a de­fi­ant 72 while open­er In­no­cent Ka­ia counter-at­tacked in a breezy 43 from 57 balls, the pair tak­ing Zim­bab­we to lunch on 46 for two, dur­ing a stand of 41 for the third wick­et.

The 37-year-old Ervine struck four fours off 105 balls in just over 2-¾ hours at the crease while Ka­ia ham­mered sev­en fours, in­clud­ing three in a row in one over from Hold­er.

Motie broke the stand in the third over af­ter lunch when Ka­ia feath­ered a sweep to wick­et­keep­er Joshua Da Sil­va and he claimed his sec­ond wick­et when he drew Mil­ton Shum­ba down and bowled him for sev­en, af­ter the left-han­der put on 32 for the fourth wick­et with Ervine.

With Motie at the fore­front, Zim­bab­we lost four wick­ets for 46 runs to tum­ble to 132 for sev­en be­fore Ervine found an al­ly in Bran­don Mavu­ta (16) with whom he added 34 for the eighth wick­et, ral­ly­ing the hosts to tea on 158 for sev­en.

How­ev­er, things fell apart quick­ly fol­low­ing the re­sump­tion. Mavu­ta squeezed a for­ward de­fen­sive stroke to Ray­mon Reifer at short leg off off-spin­ner Ros­ton Chase in the sec­ond over and Motie mopped up in the next over with the wick­ets of Ervine and Nyauchi.

Ervine’s re­sis­tance end­ed when he played back and across and was lbw and Nyauchi (2) missed a heave and was stumped by Da Sil­va.

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Scores:

ZIM­BAB­WE 115 (In­no­cent Ka­ia 38, Don­ald Tiri­pano 23 not out, Craig Ervine 22; Gu­dakesh Motie7-37, Ja­son Hold­er 2-18) and 173 (Craig Ervine 72, In­no­cent Ka­ia 43; Gu­dakesh Motie 6-62)

WEST IN­DIES 292 (Ros­ton Chase 70, Ray­mon Reifer 53, Joshua Da Sil­va 44, Tage­nar­ine Chan­der­paul 36, Kyle May­ers 30, Jer­maine Black­wood 22; Vic­tor Nyauchi 5-56, Bran­don Mavu­ta 3-73)

West In­dies won by an in­nings and four runs.


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