List of Zimbabwe Test cricket records

This is a list of Zimbabwean Cricket team's Test Cricket records. It is based on the List of Test cricket records, but concentrates solely on records dealing with the Zimbabwean cricket team.

Listing criteria

In general the top five are listed in each category (except when there is a tie for the last place among the five, when all the tied record holders are noted).

Listing notation

Team Notation

• (300-3) indicates that a team scored 300 runs for three wickets and the innings was closed, either due to a successful run chase or if no playing time remained.
• (300-3 d) indicates that a team scored 300 runs for three wickets, and declared its innings closed.
• (300) indicates that a team scored 300 runs and was all out, either by losing all ten wickets or by having one or more batsmen unable to bat and losing the remaining wickets.

Batting Notation

• (100) indicates that a batsman scored 100 runs and was out.
• (100*) indicates that a batsman scored 100 runs and was not out.

Bowling Notation

• (5-100) indicates that a bowler has captured 5 wickets while giving away 100 runs.

Currently playing

• Record holders who are currently playing Test cricket (i.e. their record details listed could change) are shown in bold

Team records

Matches played (total)

Team	1st Test	Matches	Won	Lost	Drawn	Tied	% Won
Zimbabwe	October 1992	101	11	64	26	0	10.89
Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 10 November 2016.

Matches played (by country)

Team	Opponent	1st Test	Matches	Won	Lost	Drawn	Tied	% Won	W/L ratio
Zimbabwe	Australia	1999	3	0	3	0	0	0.00	0.0
	Bangladesh	2001	14	6	5	3	0	42.85	1.2
	England	1996	6	0	3	3	0	0.00	0.0
	India	1992	11	2	7	2	0	18.18	0.0
	New Zealand	1992	15	0	9	6	0	0.00	0.0
	Pakistan	1993	17	3	10	4	0	16.64	0.3
	South Africa	1995	8	0	7	1	0	0.00	0.0
	Sri Lanka	1994	17	0	12	5	0	0.00	0.0
	West Indies	2000	8	0	6	2	0	0.00	0.0
Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 10 November 2016.

Batting records

Highest individual score

Rank	Runs	Player	Opposition	Venue	Season
1	266	David Houghton	Sri Lanka	Bulawayo	1994-95
2	232	Andy Flower	India	Nagpur	2000-01
3	203	Guy Whittall	New Zealand	Bulawayo	1997-98
4	201	Grant Flower	Pakistan	Harare	1994-95
5	199	Andy Flower	South Africa	Harare	2001-02
Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 21 September 2015.

Most career runs

Rank	Runs	Player	Matches	Innings	NO	Average
1	4794	Andy Flower	63	112	19	51.54
2	3457	Grant Flower	67	123	6	29.54
3	2858	Alistair Campbell	60	109	4	27.21
4	2207	Guy Whittall	46	82	7	29.42
5	1990	Heath Streak	65	107	18	22.35
Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 21 September 2015.

Bowling records

Best Bowling In An Innings

Rank	Figures	Player	Opposition	Venue	Season
1	8/109	Paul Strang	New Zealand	Bulawayo	2000-01
2	6/59	Douglas Hondo	Bangladesh	Dhaka	2004-05
3	6/73	Ray Price	West Indies	Harare	2003-04
	6/73	Heath Streak	India	Harare	2005-06
5	6/87	Heath Streak	England	Lord's	2000
Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 21 September 2015.

Most career wickets

Rank	Wickets	Player	Matches	Average
1	216	Heath Streak	65	28.14
2	80	Ray Price	22	36.06
3	70	Paul Strang	24	36.02
4	68	Henry Olonga	30	38.52
5	56	Bryan Strang	26	39.33
Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 03 November 2016.

Fielding records

Most catches in career (non-wicketkeeper)

Rank	Catches	Player	Matches
1	60	Alistair Campbell	60
2	43	Grant Flower	67
3	34	Stuart Carlisle	37
4	22	Brendan Taylor	23
	22	Hamilton Masakadza	32
Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 05 November 2016.

Partnership records

Highest partnerships for each wicket

Wicket	Runs	Batsmen	Opponent	Venue	Match date
1st	164	Dion Ebrahim & Alistair Campbell	West Indies	Bulawayo	19 Jul 2001
2nd	160	Sikandar Raza & Hamilton Masakadza	Bangladesh	Chittagong	12 Nov 2014
3rd	194	Alistair Campbell & David Houghton	Sri Lanka	Harare	26 Oct 1994
4th	269	Grant Flower & Andy Flower	Pakistan	Harare	31 Jan 1995
5th	277*	Murray Goodwin & Andy Flower	Pakistan	Bulawayo	14 Mar 1998
6th	165	David Houghton & Andy Flower	India	Harare	18 Oct 1992
7th	154	Heath Streak & Andy Blignaut	West Indies	Harare	27 July 2001
8th	168	Heath Streak & Andy Blignaut	West Indies	Harare	04 Nov 2003
9th	87	Paul Strang & Bryan Strang	Pakistan	Sheikhupura	17 Oct 1996
10th	97*	Andy Flower & Henry Olonga	India	Delhi	18 Nov 2000
Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 05 November 2016.