Zim U-19 lose warm up match

The Zimbabwe U-19 national cricket team lost their first warm-up game yesterday against hosts New Zealand, as they build towards the World Cup.

New Zealand won the match by 52 runs after bowling Zimbabwe out for 168 in their pursuit of a winning target of 221.

The hosts won the toss and elected to bat first, but they got off to a bad start losing the first two wickets for just seven runs with Kieran Robinson claiming two wickets from successive deliveries.

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