Match drawn

Published June 3, 2003

SHENLEY (England), June 2 : Zimbabwe drew with Middlesex on the final day of a four-day tour match on Monday.

Scoreboard

Middlesex (1st innings) 516-6 declared (R.Weston 129, P.Weekes 102 not out, M.Brown 98, E.Joyce 80, O.Shah 68)

Zimbabwe (1st innings) 401-4 declared (S.Carlisle 137, G.Flower 65, M.Vermeulen 59)

Middlesex (2nd innings) (overnight 86-1)

A.Strauss c Flower b Price 49

R.Weston lbw b Friend 41

O.Shah not out 101

B.Hutton not out 19

Extras (lb-7 nb-2 w-3) 12

Total (for two wickets, declared) 222

Fall of wkts: 1-74 2-148

Did not bat: E.Joyce, P.Weekes, M.Brown, S.Cook, T.Hunt, C.Peploe, T.Bloomfield

Bowling: Friend 9-0-65-1 (w-2), Nkala 12-2-68-0, Ervine 10-1-51-0 (nb-2), Price 7-0-31-1 (w-1)

Zimbabwe (2nd innings)

D.Ebrahim c Weekes b Peploe 64

M.Vermeulen c Brown b Hunt 42

B.Rogers c Bloomfield b Hunt 6

S.Ervine b Weekes 21

V.Sibanda b Weekes 0

T.Taibu not out 37

G.Flower not out 43

Extras (b-2 lb-2 nb-4) 8

Total (for five wickets) 221

Fall of wkts: 1-87 2-93 3-126 4-126 5-140

Bowling: Bloomfield 7-0-31-0, Cook 6-1-17-0, Hutton 5-2-22-0, Hunt 7-1-28-2 (nb-3), Weekes 19-5-38-2, Peploe 17-3-58-1 (nb-1), Shah 2-0-14-0, Joyce 2-0-9-0.—Reuters