WI Tour to Zimbabwe 2023: Test 2 of 2… Majestic Motie’s 13 wickets spin Windies to 1-0 Series win …Motie now has best bowling figures among WI spinners in Test Cricket

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Gudakesh Motie has spun the West Indies to a 1-0 Test Series’ win over Zimbabwe, against whom they wrapped up the second Test by an innings and four runs.

Playing in just his third Test, Motie returned figures of 7 for 37 and 6 for 62 as West Indies won the match convincingly inside three days, despite rain wiping out large segments of play on the second and third days.

His figures of 13 for 99 are also the best in a Test match by a West Indies spinner, and have taken him past the legendary Sonny Ramadhin’s 11 for 152 against England in 1950.

Despite good performances being returned by Victor Nyauchi, Innocent Kaia and captain Craig Ervine, Zimbabwe succumbed to a big defeat, their batting lineup faltering in the absence of Gary Ballance, who missed the game because of a migraine headache.

Play started late on day three due to a wet outfield, but once it did, Nyauchi made an instant impact by getting Jason Holder to nick off with the first delivery of the day. Motie, the other overnight batter, soon became Nyauchi’s fifth victim, as he found deep midwicket with a pull. West Indies had added just two runs to their total, taking a 177-run lead as Nyauchi recorded his first five-wicket haul in Tests. the first breakthrough in the third over, as Tanunurwa Makoni edged behind while looking to play an expansive drive. Then the first bowling change brought a wicket, with Chamu Chibhabha chopping on off Holder’s bowling in the seventh over.

Kaia, Zimbabwe’s best scored 30 of the 41 runs Zimbabwe made for the third wicket. When Motie came out to bowl, Kaia immediately started attacking him with the sweep, but looked less in control than he was against the pacers. ple catch to forward short leg when he came out of the crease to defend.

Kaia and Ervine saw Zimbabwe reach lunch at 46 for 2. In the third over after lunch, Kaia finally fell to the sweep, as he got a thin top edge that Joshua Da Silva held on to after a small juggling act. He fell seven runs short of a half-century, after being dismissed for 38 in the first innings.

Ervine then shed his defensive approach in order to keep the scoreboard ticking, even as Motie castled Milton Shumba and Tafadzwa Tsiga in quick succession to complete his first Test 10-wicket haul.

Gabriel further dented Zimbabwe’s ambitions when he got one to sneak under Donald Tiripano’s bat to uproot the off-stump.

West Indies had hoped to wrap things up quickly, but Ervine and Brandon Mavuta held firm to see Zimbabwe reach 158 for 7 at tea, with the deficit whittled down to 19 runs.

Zimbabwe then took seven off the first over after tea, bowled by Joseph, to bring the deficit down to 11 runs. But Chase had Mavuta caught at forward short leg with the first ball of the next over, to give West Indies another opening.

Motie came back into the attack immediately, and was quick to wrap the game up.

He trapped Ervine lbw for 72 - Zimbabwe’s highest score in the match - as he played back to a length ball that spun in and stayed low; before getting the ball to spin past an advancing Nyauchi, for Da Silva to complete a simple stumping. (ESPNCricinfo)

For the second time in the match, Kaia was off the blocks quickly, hitting three fine strokes for boundaries in the first two overs. Alzarri Joseph then gave West Indies batter in the first innings, continued to chip away at the West Indies’ lead, even hitting Holder for three consecutive boundaries. Ervine held down one end as Kaia

Ervine then brought up his half-century off 73 deliveries with a reverse-sweep off Motie, but Motie soon struck again, as Wellington Masakadza gifted a sim-

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