Cricketer Muzarabani keeps Zim in front

HARARE — Zimbabwe kept up the pressure on Bangladesh in the second session of the opening day of their one-off Test in Harare, reducing them to 132 for 6 at one stage before Bangladesh recovered somewhat to go to tea at 167 for 6, having added 97 runs after lunch, but losing three more wickets along the way.

Blessing Muzarabani followed up his incisive morning spell with another good one after lunch, and Victor Nyauchi complemented him well, taking the important wickets of Shakib Al Hasan and Mominul Haque, who scored 70 off 92 balls.

They engineered a mini-collapse, sending Bangladesh from 106 for 3 to 132 for 6 in the space of 7.

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