BULAWAYO : Zimbabwe: Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson hit centuries as New
Zealand piled up 328 for five in the third and final one-day
international against New Zealand at Queens Sports Club on Tuesday.Taylor
(119) and Williamson (100 not out) shared a fifth-wicket stand of 195
off only 133 balls that turned what seemed likely to be a respectable
total into an imposing one, adding 164 runs in the final 15 overs.Zimbabwe
made a good start by claiming the first three wickets for 41 runs, with
bustling fast bowler Njabulo Ncube taking two wickets in his first
spell in international cricket.New Zealand captain Taylor
made a cautious start, taking 83 balls to reach his half-century, as he
and Jesse Ryder (53) launched a recovery with a fourth-wicket stand of
83.The tempo increased rapidly when Williamson joined Taylor, who went to his sixth one-day international century off 115 balls.Williamson
was in superb form and reached his second hundred off 69 deliveries,
scoring seven runs off the final two balls of the innings.Zimbabwe
gave new caps to Ncube and leg-spinner Natsai M'shangwe and both
impressed in their first spells before wilting as Taylor and Williamson
went on the rampage.Ncube took two for 28 in an opening
spell of six overs but then conceded 41 runs off his next 2.5 overs
before being ordered out of the attack in the final over after bowling a
second high full toss.He bowled Taylor in his last over to finish with three for 69.M'shangwe
started with a maiden and bowled eight successive overs for only 26
runs before being hit for another 24 runs in his last two overs.New
Zealand, holding a winning 2-0 lead in the series, rested leading
scorer Martin Guptill in order to give some of their other batsmen time
in the middle ahead of a one-off Test starting at the same ground on
November 1.The plan did not work for BJ Watling, who opened
in Guptill's place and was run out without facing a ball, but Taylor,
Ryder and Williamson all played their first major innings of the tour
