Taylor Hits 131 as Zimbabwe Reach 326/5 at Stumps on Day 1 in Sharjah
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Brendan Taylor hit 131 as Zimbabwe reached 326 for 5 at stumps on the first day of the opening Test against Afghanistan in Sharjah on Thursday.
The 40-year-old hit 14 fours and four sixes in his seventh Test hundred, his first in almost eight years, and he is the second-oldest player since 2000 to score a Test hundred.
He fell caught at long-off off Hashmatullah Shahidi after adding 137 runs for the third wicket with captain Brian Bennett.
Bennett was unbeaten on 71 and Wessly Madhevere on 29 at the close, after the pair steadied Zimbabwe from 287 for 5.
Zia-ur-Rehman took two wickets for Afghanistan, and Zimbabwe will resume their first innings on Friday.
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