England started its home summer with record fashion and dominated Zimbabwe 1. The day of their four -day test at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. The hosts gathered commanding 498 for 3 in the first Zimbabwe’s first test in England in 22 years.
The best order in England has made history like Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope became the first trio in the history of the test of each century in the same shift twice – a rare and remarkable act.
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Crawley (124) and Duckett (140) both recorded their fifth test hundreds and built a mammoth 231-Run stand for the opening goal. The Pope, whose place on the test side was under control, silenced doubters with a dominant 169 not only 163 supplies – a statement to start summer.
It was a basball in full swing, with Duckett and the Pope scored over 100, while Zimbabwe kept the pitch under constant pressure. The Pope, launching to 169, will try to twice and consolidate its place on the side of the upcoming series against India.
Joe Root missed a big score, but contributed 34 before the fall. Despite the modest knocking, root reached the main milestone, becoming Only the fifth dough in the test history exceeded 13,000 runs.
“Pretty nice, fantastic score, great day, very pleased. When Ben plays just like him, and Popey did the same thing, I was comfortable to get down to the other end. I always want a big score, disappointed when I got out, I felt a little rhythm,” said Zab Crawley.
While England has accumulated on running, the mismatch in quality caused the debate between fans of test crickets about the expanding bay between the highest parties and the emerging teams such as Zimbabwe – and the urgent need for such teams to gain more opportunities at the highest level.
England 498 on day 1 identified their fifth highest one -day sum in the test history. He still holds the record for the most runs per day – 588 against India in Manchester in 1936. Especially in the first days of the Bazball era, England broke 506 runs on the first day of the Rawalpindi test in 2022.
Zimbabwe, fresh of a rare test victory against Bangladesh last month, looked common with the ball. Their attack lacked penetration on the flat surface of Bridge. The blessing of Muzarabani, which impressed in this Bangladeshi test in a six -blade haul, could not replicate its form and tempo Trio Richard Ngarava, Tanak Chivang and Victor Nyauchi tried to retain the flow of runs.
Sikandar Raza was the only Zimbabwe’s pitch that he admitted in four runs and offered some control on an otherwise one -sided day.
England will seem to be in a similar way to push on 2 days and focus on the bat only once in this one -time test.
Published:
Akshay Ramesh
Published on:
23 May 2025
