After being 3/104 Zimbabwe lost 7/43! In his debut Test match, Jimmy Anderson took the last 4 wickets to finish with 5/73 off 16 overs.
Zimbabwe have now been forced to follow on and have already lost a wicket making them trail by 314 runs with 9 wickets remaining. Doesn't look like England will have to bat again!
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Well well game over and I was right England didn't have to bat again but you didn't have to be a genious to work that one out!
Zimbabwe made 233 in their second innings with England winning by an innings and 92 runs!
Butcher took 4/60 off 12.5 overs and McGrath took 3/16 off just 6 overs.
Man of the match honours went to Butcher.
Can Zimbabwe make more of a show of it in the next test?
Zimbabwe made 233 in their second innings with England winning by an innings and 92 runs!
Butcher took 4/60 off 12.5 overs and McGrath took 3/16 off just 6 overs.
Man of the match honours went to Butcher.
Can Zimbabwe make more of a show of it in the next test?
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Flintoff ruled out of second Test
Wisden CricInfo staff - May 29, 2003
Andrew Flintoff has been ruled out of next week's second Test against Zimbabwe at Chester-le-Street, after failing to recover from a freak shoulder injury.
Flintoff suffered a trapped nerve after being struck by a beamer in the Lancashire nets last week. It was feared the problem would be enough to keep him out of international action until the start of the NatWest series next month, although he was able to play a part with the bat in Lancashire's victory against Durham in the C&G Trophy on Wednesday.
But Flintoff is not going to be rushed back into action. "I surprised myself by playing at Durham yesterday," he said. "I had treatment at Lord's last week and there were signs of improvement. But I still can't bowl and I also managed to get away without having to throw, which was a bonus.
Instead of heading back to the Riverside, Flintoff will travel south to play against Kent in the Championship, before taking on Leicestershire in Liverpool on June 4.
Matthew Hoggard is also likely to miss the second Test. He is rated extremely doubtful after damaging the cartilage in his right knee during Yorkshire's C&G Trophy defeat against Worcestershire.
"The position is that the knee is sore," Hoggard told the Press Association. "I jarred it. I tried to carry on initially but I couldn't run it off and this has been a very frustrating year for me so far. I had a dodgy winter, bowled reasonably well against Derbyshire, got injured against Northants. I came back from my stomach injury and the first time I went jogging I twisted my ankle.
"Everything is coming in threes and fours for me in terms of injuries. Things are getting on top of me at the moment. I just hope I can get over this knee thing as quickly as possible and get back to playing some cricket."
Wisden CricInfo staff - May 29, 2003
Andrew Flintoff has been ruled out of next week's second Test against Zimbabwe at Chester-le-Street, after failing to recover from a freak shoulder injury.
Flintoff suffered a trapped nerve after being struck by a beamer in the Lancashire nets last week. It was feared the problem would be enough to keep him out of international action until the start of the NatWest series next month, although he was able to play a part with the bat in Lancashire's victory against Durham in the C&G Trophy on Wednesday.
But Flintoff is not going to be rushed back into action. "I surprised myself by playing at Durham yesterday," he said. "I had treatment at Lord's last week and there were signs of improvement. But I still can't bowl and I also managed to get away without having to throw, which was a bonus.
Instead of heading back to the Riverside, Flintoff will travel south to play against Kent in the Championship, before taking on Leicestershire in Liverpool on June 4.
Matthew Hoggard is also likely to miss the second Test. He is rated extremely doubtful after damaging the cartilage in his right knee during Yorkshire's C&G Trophy defeat against Worcestershire.
"The position is that the knee is sore," Hoggard told the Press Association. "I jarred it. I tried to carry on initially but I couldn't run it off and this has been a very frustrating year for me so far. I had a dodgy winter, bowled reasonably well against Derbyshire, got injured against Northants. I came back from my stomach injury and the first time I went jogging I twisted my ankle.
"Everything is coming in threes and fours for me in terms of injuries. Things are getting on top of me at the moment. I just hope I can get over this knee thing as quickly as possible and get back to playing some cricket."
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Johnson called up for second Test
Steven Lynch - May 31, 2003
Richard Johnson, the uncapped Somerset fast bowler, is the one new name in England's squad of 12 for the second npower Test against Zimbabwe, which starts at Chester-le-Street on Thursday (June 5).
Johnson replaces Matthew Hoggard from the side that won the first Test, at Lord's, by an innings inside three days. Hoggard injured his knee earlier this week playing for Yorkshire in the C&G Trophy. James Kirtley, 12th man at Lord's, retains his place in the squad, and the last place in the starting XI probably lies between those two. Johnson might just edge it by virtue of his better batting credentials - earlier this year he smote his maiden first-class century.
Johnson, who's now 28, has been close to England selection before: after a good 1995 season with his then-county Middlesex, he was chosen for the winter tour of South Africa, but had to pull out with back trouble. He was also called up for two Tests of the 2001 Ashes series, but missed out when the team was named, and toured India in 2001-02 without making the Test side.
David Graveney, England's chairman of selectors, said: "Richard Johnson has been in our plans for a while and has been selected now that he is fully fit again after suffering from a groin strain earlier in the season. He is in good form and is a bowler who is capable of 90mph pace and making the ball swing."
The only other absentee from the squad called up for Lord's is Andy Flintoff, who is still unable to bowl after injuring his shoulder. But he showed yesterday that he can still bat, hammering a rapid 154 for Lancashire against Kent at Canterbury.
Graveney explained: "Andrew Flintoff is back playing for Lancashire as a batsman and we will continue to monitor his fitness. But we did not consider him for this Test match as we feel that he is not yet ready for the rigours of a five-day game."
Flintoff's replacement, Anthony McGrath, is set to retain his place after a promising debut at Lord's - he scored 69 and took three wickets - even though he picked up a side injury that will restrict his bowling.
Either Johnson or Kirtley will be winning his first cap, but the focus on Thursday will be on another Test debutant. The Riverside ground at Chester-le-Street in Durham will be England's first new Test venue for 101 years - since Sheffield's Bramall Lane in 1902. England lost that game to Australia and never played in Sheffield again, but the Riverside, with its clean stands and room to breathe, should have a much rosier future.
England Squad Marcus Trescothick (Somerset), Michael Vaughan (Yorkshire), Mark Butcher (Surrey), Nasser Hussain (capt, Essex), Robert Key (Kent), Alec Stewart (wkt, Surrey), Anthony McGrath (Yorkshire), Ashley Giles (Warwickshire), Richard Johnson (Somerset), Stephen Harmison (Durham), James Anderson (Lancashire), James Kirtley (Sussex).
Steven Lynch - May 31, 2003
Richard Johnson, the uncapped Somerset fast bowler, is the one new name in England's squad of 12 for the second npower Test against Zimbabwe, which starts at Chester-le-Street on Thursday (June 5).
Johnson replaces Matthew Hoggard from the side that won the first Test, at Lord's, by an innings inside three days. Hoggard injured his knee earlier this week playing for Yorkshire in the C&G Trophy. James Kirtley, 12th man at Lord's, retains his place in the squad, and the last place in the starting XI probably lies between those two. Johnson might just edge it by virtue of his better batting credentials - earlier this year he smote his maiden first-class century.
Johnson, who's now 28, has been close to England selection before: after a good 1995 season with his then-county Middlesex, he was chosen for the winter tour of South Africa, but had to pull out with back trouble. He was also called up for two Tests of the 2001 Ashes series, but missed out when the team was named, and toured India in 2001-02 without making the Test side.
David Graveney, England's chairman of selectors, said: "Richard Johnson has been in our plans for a while and has been selected now that he is fully fit again after suffering from a groin strain earlier in the season. He is in good form and is a bowler who is capable of 90mph pace and making the ball swing."
The only other absentee from the squad called up for Lord's is Andy Flintoff, who is still unable to bowl after injuring his shoulder. But he showed yesterday that he can still bat, hammering a rapid 154 for Lancashire against Kent at Canterbury.
Graveney explained: "Andrew Flintoff is back playing for Lancashire as a batsman and we will continue to monitor his fitness. But we did not consider him for this Test match as we feel that he is not yet ready for the rigours of a five-day game."
Flintoff's replacement, Anthony McGrath, is set to retain his place after a promising debut at Lord's - he scored 69 and took three wickets - even though he picked up a side injury that will restrict his bowling.
Either Johnson or Kirtley will be winning his first cap, but the focus on Thursday will be on another Test debutant. The Riverside ground at Chester-le-Street in Durham will be England's first new Test venue for 101 years - since Sheffield's Bramall Lane in 1902. England lost that game to Australia and never played in Sheffield again, but the Riverside, with its clean stands and room to breathe, should have a much rosier future.
England Squad Marcus Trescothick (Somerset), Michael Vaughan (Yorkshire), Mark Butcher (Surrey), Nasser Hussain (capt, Essex), Robert Key (Kent), Alec Stewart (wkt, Surrey), Anthony McGrath (Yorkshire), Ashley Giles (Warwickshire), Richard Johnson (Somerset), Stephen Harmison (Durham), James Anderson (Lancashire), James Kirtley (Sussex).
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Hoggard faces six-week lay-off
Wisden CricInfo staff - May 30, 2003
Matthew Hoggard has been ruled out of the second npower Test after a scan revealed a torn meniscal cartilage in his right knee.
"Matthew will need to see a surgeon to find out if an operation is required," explained Dr Peter Gregory, the ECB's chief medical officer. "Our initial assessment is that he is likely to be out of cricket for approximately six weeks."
Hoggard jarred his knee during Yorkshire's C&G Trophy defeat against Worcestershire on Wednesday.
There was better news regarding Anthony McGrath who injured his intercostal muscle on the final day of the Lord's Test. A scan failed to reveal any signifcant damage and he will be re-assessed by England's medical staff on Monday to see if he will be able to play at Riverside.
Wisden CricInfo staff - May 30, 2003
Matthew Hoggard has been ruled out of the second npower Test after a scan revealed a torn meniscal cartilage in his right knee.
"Matthew will need to see a surgeon to find out if an operation is required," explained Dr Peter Gregory, the ECB's chief medical officer. "Our initial assessment is that he is likely to be out of cricket for approximately six weeks."
Hoggard jarred his knee during Yorkshire's C&G Trophy defeat against Worcestershire on Wednesday.
There was better news regarding Anthony McGrath who injured his intercostal muscle on the final day of the Lord's Test. A scan failed to reveal any signifcant damage and he will be re-assessed by England's medical staff on Monday to see if he will be able to play at Riverside.
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Green is the colour
Andrew Miller - June 4, 2003
English cricket has never been very good at looking to the future. It is 101 years since Bramall Lane in Sheffield became the seventh and most recent of England's Test venues. And even then, with the Victorian era still fresh in the minds, innovation was something to be frowned upon. By July 6, 1902 - three days and one soggy defeat after the first ball had been bowled - Test cricket in South Yorkshire had been consigned to the history books, from where it has occasionally made guest appearances in pub quizzes and Sheffield United fanzines.
Since that time, seven nations and 73 more grounds have made their debuts in Test cricket. But tomorrow, at 10.45am, The Riverside Ground at Chester-le-Street will take its place alongside Lord's, Melbourne and Kolkata as the 87th Test venue, and the most northerly in the history of the game.
Typically, there is nothing remotely new about Chester-le-Street itself - the town was first settled in Ancient Briton times and has remained a modest size ever since. But the Riverside, itself situated beneath the 14th-century Lumley Castle, has developed from mudslick to greentop with unseemly haste - as indeed has Durham County Cricket Club, which was only awarded first-class status on December 6, 1990.
David Graveney, England's current chairman of selectors, was Durham's captain during their inaugural season in 1992, although even he had retired by the time Chester-le-Street staged its inaugural first-class game on May 18, 1995. Graveney was understandably bullish about the prospect of Test cricket coming to the North East. "It's a bit like taking England's football games away from Wembley and playing them at Manchester United or Liverpool," he said. "They have passion with a capital P for sport up there."
Of that there can be no doubt. Although Zimbabwe's modest reputation is unlikely to put a strain on the Riverside's 12,000 capacity, the vibrancy of the region should be enough to put the wind up those traditional northern venues of Old Trafford and Headingley, whose Test status seems to be under annual review. With Hampshire's Rose Bowl coming up the rails as well, the old guard can expect to put under further pressure in the not-so-distant future.
In many ways, it is fortunate that the novelty of the venue detracts from the nonentity of the opposition. Zimbabwe's feeble efforts in the first npower Test at Lord's, where they lost 19 wickets on the third day alone, confirmed that they are a shadow even of the side that lost 1-0 in England in 2000. On that occasion, Zimbabwe bounced back from a similar Lord's pasting to enjoy the better of a drawn match at Trent Bridge, but a similar turnaround this time is almost unthinkable. What's more, the planned demonstrations from the Stop The Tour campaign will be a salutary reminder that not everything is rosy down by the Riverside.
For Steve Harmison, however, nothing will detract from the pride he will feel if, as expected, he takes England's first new ball on his home ground. It will not be a token gesture either - with Andrew Caddick, Darren Gough and Matthew Hoggard all sidelined, Harmison will be the most experienced England seamer on show, with all of six caps to his name. The one-capped boy-wonder, James Anderson, and either James Kirtley or Richard Johnson (both uncapped) will complete an appropriately raw attack.
Nasser Hussain, as is his duty, has played down expectations ahead of the match, demanding the utmost professionalism from his players. And with that Trent Bridge 2000 experience in mind, Zimbabwe's batsmen are at least in some sort of form. Last week, Stuart Carlisle scored his second century of the tour against Middlesex, and Heath Streak has urged at least one of his top five to put together the big score he knows they are capable of. The bowling is another matter, however. The second-string seamers conceded a match aggregate of 738 for 8 to an understrength Middlesex line-up. Much will be resting on Streak's own broad shoulders, and the hustle and bustle of Andy Blignaut.
Streak did his best to be bullish ahead of the match, although the naming of an unchanged side was hardly an endorsement of his team's performance. The Riverside is at least a ground with happy memories for Zimbabwe, who beat West Indies there in a one-day international in 2000. But history, as Henry Ford said, is bunk.
It doesn't promise to be much of a contest. But it should be a memorable occasion.
England (probable): 1 Marcus Trescothick, 2 Michael Vaughan, 3 Mark Butcher, 4 Nasser Hussain (capt), 5 Robert Key, 6 Alec Stewart (wk), 7 Anthony McGrath, 8 Ashley Giles, 9 Richard Johnson, 10 James Anderson, 11 Steve Harmison. 12th man James Kirtley.
Zimbabwe 1 Mark Vermeulen, 2 Dion Ebrahim, 3 Stuart Carlisle, 4 Grant Flower, 5 Tatenda Taibu (wk), 6 Sean Ervine, 7 Heath Streak (capt), 8 Andy Blignaut, 9 Travis Friend, 10 Raymond Price, 11 Douglas Hondo.
Andrew Miller - June 4, 2003
English cricket has never been very good at looking to the future. It is 101 years since Bramall Lane in Sheffield became the seventh and most recent of England's Test venues. And even then, with the Victorian era still fresh in the minds, innovation was something to be frowned upon. By July 6, 1902 - three days and one soggy defeat after the first ball had been bowled - Test cricket in South Yorkshire had been consigned to the history books, from where it has occasionally made guest appearances in pub quizzes and Sheffield United fanzines.
Since that time, seven nations and 73 more grounds have made their debuts in Test cricket. But tomorrow, at 10.45am, The Riverside Ground at Chester-le-Street will take its place alongside Lord's, Melbourne and Kolkata as the 87th Test venue, and the most northerly in the history of the game.
Typically, there is nothing remotely new about Chester-le-Street itself - the town was first settled in Ancient Briton times and has remained a modest size ever since. But the Riverside, itself situated beneath the 14th-century Lumley Castle, has developed from mudslick to greentop with unseemly haste - as indeed has Durham County Cricket Club, which was only awarded first-class status on December 6, 1990.
David Graveney, England's current chairman of selectors, was Durham's captain during their inaugural season in 1992, although even he had retired by the time Chester-le-Street staged its inaugural first-class game on May 18, 1995. Graveney was understandably bullish about the prospect of Test cricket coming to the North East. "It's a bit like taking England's football games away from Wembley and playing them at Manchester United or Liverpool," he said. "They have passion with a capital P for sport up there."
Of that there can be no doubt. Although Zimbabwe's modest reputation is unlikely to put a strain on the Riverside's 12,000 capacity, the vibrancy of the region should be enough to put the wind up those traditional northern venues of Old Trafford and Headingley, whose Test status seems to be under annual review. With Hampshire's Rose Bowl coming up the rails as well, the old guard can expect to put under further pressure in the not-so-distant future.
In many ways, it is fortunate that the novelty of the venue detracts from the nonentity of the opposition. Zimbabwe's feeble efforts in the first npower Test at Lord's, where they lost 19 wickets on the third day alone, confirmed that they are a shadow even of the side that lost 1-0 in England in 2000. On that occasion, Zimbabwe bounced back from a similar Lord's pasting to enjoy the better of a drawn match at Trent Bridge, but a similar turnaround this time is almost unthinkable. What's more, the planned demonstrations from the Stop The Tour campaign will be a salutary reminder that not everything is rosy down by the Riverside.
For Steve Harmison, however, nothing will detract from the pride he will feel if, as expected, he takes England's first new ball on his home ground. It will not be a token gesture either - with Andrew Caddick, Darren Gough and Matthew Hoggard all sidelined, Harmison will be the most experienced England seamer on show, with all of six caps to his name. The one-capped boy-wonder, James Anderson, and either James Kirtley or Richard Johnson (both uncapped) will complete an appropriately raw attack.
Nasser Hussain, as is his duty, has played down expectations ahead of the match, demanding the utmost professionalism from his players. And with that Trent Bridge 2000 experience in mind, Zimbabwe's batsmen are at least in some sort of form. Last week, Stuart Carlisle scored his second century of the tour against Middlesex, and Heath Streak has urged at least one of his top five to put together the big score he knows they are capable of. The bowling is another matter, however. The second-string seamers conceded a match aggregate of 738 for 8 to an understrength Middlesex line-up. Much will be resting on Streak's own broad shoulders, and the hustle and bustle of Andy Blignaut.
Streak did his best to be bullish ahead of the match, although the naming of an unchanged side was hardly an endorsement of his team's performance. The Riverside is at least a ground with happy memories for Zimbabwe, who beat West Indies there in a one-day international in 2000. But history, as Henry Ford said, is bunk.
It doesn't promise to be much of a contest. But it should be a memorable occasion.
England (probable): 1 Marcus Trescothick, 2 Michael Vaughan, 3 Mark Butcher, 4 Nasser Hussain (capt), 5 Robert Key, 6 Alec Stewart (wk), 7 Anthony McGrath, 8 Ashley Giles, 9 Richard Johnson, 10 James Anderson, 11 Steve Harmison. 12th man James Kirtley.
Zimbabwe 1 Mark Vermeulen, 2 Dion Ebrahim, 3 Stuart Carlisle, 4 Grant Flower, 5 Tatenda Taibu (wk), 6 Sean Ervine, 7 Heath Streak (capt), 8 Andy Blignaut, 9 Travis Friend, 10 Raymond Price, 11 Douglas Hondo.
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Hondo took another wicket to have 3/22 at one stage but a 142 run 6th. wicket partnership from Alec Stewart (67) and Anthony McGrath (68) left England in a strong position at stumps on 5/298.
Hondo finished the day on 3/66. Heath Streak bowled well for 1/50 from 22 overs.
Hondo finished the day on 3/66. Heath Streak bowled well for 1/50 from 22 overs.
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