New Zealand's best bowler in the match Chris Cairns dismissed Flower for 59 after tea and following the loss

New Zealand's best bowler in the match, Chris Cairns, dismissed Flower for 59 after tea, and following the loss of David Houghton and Alastair Campbell, Zimbabwe put up the shutters.NEW ZEALAND - First innings 230 for 8 dec (Streak 4-52)ZIMBABWE - First innings 196 (Whittall 54; Cairns 4-56)NEW ZEALAND - Second innings(overnight: 129-4)C Spearman lbw Streak 27R Twose run out 8S Fleming c A Flower b P Strang 21A Parore not out 84N Astle c Olonga b B Strang 32C Cairns c Olonga b Brandes 7*L Germon not out 22Extras (lb7 nb6 w4 b4) 21Total (for 5 dec) 222Fall: 1-36 2-63 3-64 4-121 5-140Did not bat: D Patel, G Loveridge, R Kennedy, G Allott.Bowling: Streak 22-4-56-1; Brandes 18-4-52-1; B Strang 5-1-19-1; P Strang 24-7-57-1; G Flower 3-1-7-0; Olonga 3-1-20-0.ZIMBABWE - Second inningsG Flower c Germon b Cairns 59S Carlisle c Fleming b Patel 19G Whittall c Kennedy b Twose 20D Houghton lbw Twose 31*A Flower not out 58A Campbell c Germon b Patel 3H Streak lbw Cairns 6P Strang not out 0Extras (lb4 nb7 w1) 12Total (for 6) 208Fall: 1-56 2-99 3-125 4-143 5-151 6-177.Bowling: Cairns 15-4-43-2; Allott 7-0-49-0; Kennedy 5-0-19-0; Patel 21- 6-57-2; Twose 13-0-36-2.Umpires: L Barker (West Indies), D Quested (NZ).. They open at the Ernst Happel Stadium on 31 August, though, barely a fortnight after the start of the Scottish season."We are satisfied," Brown said. "We have had tough away matches at the start of previous campaigns and have emerged successfully. We went to Finland at the start of the Euro 96 campaign and won 2-0, which was a big factor in making it to England."World Cup 1998qualifying scheduleENGLAND1996 Sun Sep 1 Moldova (A)Wed Oct 9 Poland (H)Sat Nov 9 Georgia (A)1997 Wed Feb 12 Italy (H)Wed Apr 30 Georgia (H)Sat May 31 Poland (A)Wed Sep 10 Moldova (H)Sat Oct 11 Italy (A)SCOTLAND1996 Sat Aug 31 Austria (A)Sat Oct 5 Latvia (A)Wed Oct 9 Estonia (A)Sun Nov 10 Sweden (H)1997 Sat Mar 29 Estonia (H)Wed Apr 2 Austria (H)Wed April 30 Sweden (A)Sun June 8 Belarus (A)Sat Sep 6 Belarus (H)Sat Oct 11 Latvia (H). Cricket NZ 230-8 dec and 222-5 dec Zimbabwe 196 and 208-6 (Match drawn) New Zealand and Zimbabwe drew the first Test at Hamilton yesterday despite the best efforts of the home captain, Lee Germon, to force a positive result.Germon declared his side's second innings at 222 for 5 at lunch on the final day, setting Zimbabwe a target of 257 in two sessions for victory. At the close, they were 49 short with four wickets in hand after going in at tea at 113 for 2.Grant Flower and Stuart Carlisle brought up the 50 in the 11th over before Carlisle was caught at first slip off Dipak Patel's first ball. They resume against Italy at Wembley in February, having ruled out an Easter game at the behest of a Premiership anxious to protect its schedules.

The FA's chief executive, Graham Kelly, has negotiated free weekends before all bar the April 1997 Wembley visit of Georgia, which is followed by the most treacherous-looking qualifier, in Poland on 31 MayThe Scotland coach, Craig Brown, emerged from his meeting in Vienna with what seems a favourable hand, without having to play any ties before the European Championship finals. "It's impossible for us to beat them," their coach, Ion Caras, said "England and Italy are clear favourites. Every game is a great occasion for us but this will be the biggest because England is the father of football."The fathers of football follow up with a home game against their traditional bogeymen, Poland, and the equally perilous trip to Georgia in November. Ideally we would have liked to play at home, but with the way the fixtures were dropping we could then have ended with three away games on the trot.

It's all about getting the balance right, with four other countries all trying to do the same, and I think we have managed that."Moldova beat Wales and Georgia in the European Championship qualifying campaign, but are holding out little hope of matching England. But the FA delegation left Warsaw with a balanced schedule, which may prove a plus point in their search for a new coach.The new man will have three Premiership games in which to assess and assemble his first line-up but Venables, who is so far abiding by his decision to resign after the European Championship finals, said: "It was unavoidable to start this way. Substitute not used: Clark.Stoke City (4-4-2): Prudhoe; Clarkson, Sigurdsson, Cranson, Sandford; Keen, Wallace, Gleghorn, Potter; Peschisolido (Gayle, 70), Sturridge. Substitutes not used: Drayer, Beeston.Referee: D Gallagher (Banbury).. Football England's incoming manager will have a Black Sea baptism when his new charges open their World Cup qualifying campaign in Moldova in September, while Scotland travel to Vienna in what could be a crucial encounter against Austria at the end of August. Terry Venables has presented his successor with an opener on 1 September, climaxing in Rome against Group Two favourites Italy 14 months later.