Zimbabwe Embarrass Bangladesh To Record Their Biggest Test Win

Zimbabwe embarrass Bangladesh [Source: @ZimCricketv/x]

Zimbabwe cricket team crushed Bangladesh to a pulp in their one-off Test at the Harare Sports Club. Experienced opener Innocent Kaia won the ‘Player of the Match’ award for charting his career-best Test score of 140 in the first Zimbabwe innings across Days 1 and 2. 

The win not only marked Zimbabwe’s second successive in the format, but the team also attained a huge record in the process.

Bangladesh at the receiving end of Zimbabwe’s biggest Test win

Back in October 2025 last year in Harare, hosts Zimbabwe pulverized Afghanistan by an innings and 73 runs to win their one-off Test. Notably, the outcome became Zimbabwe’s biggest victory in Test cricket, surpassing their 30-year-old 64-run innings result over Pakistan, also in Harare.

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Notably, it took Zimbabwe just another eight months to surpass their Afghanistan effort. On June 30, i.e., on Day 3 of their one-off Test against Bangladesh in Harare, the hosts secured an emphatic victory by an innings and 85 runs to record their new biggest win margin in the format. 

Notably, in Zimbabwe’s 34-year-old Test history, the ‘Chevrons’ have now recorded two of their biggest Test wins in the space of just two matches spanning eight months. Moreover, three of their biggest innings win in Test cricket have all occurred at the iconic Harare Sports Club. Here is a look at four of Zimbabwe’s biggest win margins in Test cricket, by an innings.

Largest win margins by Zimbabwe in Test cricket

Blessing Muzarabani, Newman Nyamhuri and Kaia steamroll Bangladesh

Zimbabwe fast bowlers Newman Nyamhuri (4-61), Richard Ngarava (2-18), Blessing Muzarabani (2-19) and Brad Evans (2-30) skittled Bangladesh for just 140 in 47.2 overs on Day 1 after winning the toss and opting to field first. 

In response, experienced opener Innocent Kaia punched out a stroke-filled 140 off 227 balls to match Bangladesh’s entire first innings effort. Brian Bennett, Craig Ervine and unbeaten Wessly Madhevere also composed half-centuries to catapult the Zimbabwean total to 410 and the lead to 270 runs.

For Bangladesh, ace spinner Taijul Islam picked up seven wickets at an expense of 138 runs in 40.2 overs in the high-scoring Zimbabwe innings.

Up against a huge lead, Bangladesh folded up for just 185 in 45 overs, with Zimbabwe’s Richard Ngarava (3-32) and Blessing Muzarabani (4-65) picking up seven wickets between them to script a huge innings and 85 runs victory.

Zimbabwe to host Bangladesh in three ODIs, three T20Is

A battered-and-bruised Bangladesh now has a shot at redemption in the two white-ball formats of the tour.  

The two sides will now face each other in a three-match ODI series, set to be played between July 6 and July 11 at the Harare Sports Club. Bangladesh’s all-format tour will conclude with another set of three T20I matches between July 15 and July 19.

The T20I series will be hosted by the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo.

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