Bashir's six-wicket haul seals dominant England win over Zimbabwe

Nottingham: Shoaib Bashir took six wickets and returned his best figures in Test cricket as England completed a dominant innings and 45 run win over Z...

Nottingham: Shoaib Bashir took six wickets and returned his best figures in Test cricket as England completed a dominant innings and 45-run win over Zimbabwe in a one-off match at Trent Bridge on Saturday.

Zimbabwe, following-on, were dismissed for 255 on the third day of four after England had made a commanding 565-6 declared in their first innings that featured hundreds from Zak Crawley (124), Ben Duckett (140) and Ollie Pope (171).

Off-spinner Bashir, who before arriving in Nottingham had only taken two first-class wickets this season at a hugely expensive average of 152, had Test-best figures of 6-81 on Saturday on to finish with a match haul of 9-143.

The off-spinner removed the aggressive Sean Williams and the obdurate Ben Curran either side of lunch after the third-wicket duo had nearly batted through all of Saturday's first session in what was Zimbabwe's first Test in England in 22 years.

Williams was on course to regain the record for the fastest Test century by a Zimbabwe batsman that he had lost to Brian Bennett earlier in this match. But 12 minutes before lunch, he was lbw sweeping at off-spinner Bashir for an 88 made off just 82 balls including 16 fours.