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NAPIER: New Zealand were on the border Saturday of a huge achievement over Zimbabwe on the third day of the one-off Test afterwards antibacterial the tourists for a almanac low 51 in their aboriginal innings.

Forced to bat again, Zimbabwe were anon in austere agitation in their additional innings and went to tea at 12-3, still 432 runs abaft New Zealand's 495 for seven declared in Napier.

The Zimbabwe batsmen had no acknowledgment to the beat variations of New Zealand's four-pronged clip attack, backed by the attenuate tweaking of Daniel Vettori.

Malcolm Waller contributed the aggregate of the runs with 23 in the Zimbabwe aboriginal innings afore he was bent at third blooper by Dean Brownlie off Tim Southee.

Veteran paceman Chris Martin was New Zealand's arch boner demography two for bristles off six overs in Zimbabwe's aboriginal innings and absolution all three wickets to abatement so far in the tourists' additional about-face at bat.

Trent Boult, Doug Bracewell and Southee additionally took two wickets in the aboriginal innings and Vettori took one.

The 51 runs in 28.5 overs in Zimbabwe's aboriginal innings was their everyman Test innings total. Their antecedent everyman account was 54 adjoin South Africa in Cape Town in 2005.