Zimbabwe take Windies Test to final day after eking out 18-run lead

Sikandar Raza has helped Zimbabwe take Windies the distance in the second Test

Zimbabwe live to fight another day after an unbroken partnership of 94 between Sikandar Raza and Peter Moor gave them a slender lead against Windies on the fourth day of the second Test.

 

Raza (58no) and Moor (39no) came together with Zimbabwe reeling on 46-4 in their second innings in Bulawayo, still needing 76 runs to make Windies bat again.

But by the close they had carried the home side to 140-4 to claim an 18-run advantage, with Raza adding his second half-century in a match where he has also claimed a five-wicket haul.

Zimbabwe conceded a 212-run partnership for the eighth wicket to centurions Shane Dowrich (103) and Jason Holder (110) as they spent 178.2 overs in the field - Dowrich's ton his first in Tests.

The hosts' punch-drunk top order were easily knocked over but Raza and Moor ensured the two-match series, which Windies lead 1-0, will go into a final day at Queens Sports Club.

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