Biggest win for New Zealand

New Zealand defeated Zimbabwe by a huge margin of an innings and 294 runs in the first Test match at Harare.

A plethora of records were set and broken during this massacre of the hapless Zimbabweans. Have a look at some of them:

Biggest innings victories in Test cricket:

Margin	Winner	Loser	Venue	Season
Inns & 579 runs	Eng	Aus	The Oval	1938
Inns & 360 runs	Aus	SA	Johannesburg	2001-02
Inns & 336 runs	WI	Ind	Calcutta	1958-59
Inns & 332 runs	Aus	Eng	Brisbane	1946-47
Inns & 324 runs	Pak	NZ	Lahore	2001-02
Inns & 322 runs	WI	NZ	Wellington	1994-95
Inns & 310 runs	WI	Ban	Dhaka	2002-03
Inns & 294 runs	NZ	Zim	Harare	2005-06
Inns & 285 runs	Eng	Ind	Lord's	1974
Inns & 264 runs	Pak	Ban	Multan	2001-02
Inns & 261 runs	Eng	Ban	Lord's	2005

Biggest innings victories for New Zealand:

Inns & 294 runs	v Zim	Harare	2005-06
Inns & 185 runs	v Pak	Hamilton	2000-01
Inns & 132 runs	v Eng	Christchurch	1983-84
Inns & 105 runs	v WI	Wellington	1999-00
Inns & 101 runs	v Ban	Chittagong	2004-05

Zimbabwe were bowled out in both innings for less than 100 runs, only the 15th such occurrence in Test cricket. The details:

Totals	Countries	Venue	Season
42 & 82	Aus v Eng	Sydney	1887-88
53 & 62	Eng v Aus	Lord's	1888
81 & 70	Aus v Eng	Manchester	1888
47 & 43	SA v Eng	Cape Town	1888-89
97 & 83	SA v Eng	Cape Town	1891-92
93 & 30	SA v Eng	Port Elizabeth	1895-96
95 & 93	SA v Eng	The Oval	1912
36 & 45	SA v Aus	Melbourne	1930-31
42 & 54	NZ v Aus	Wellington	1945-46
58 & 98	Ind v Aus	Brisbane	1947-48
58 & 82	Ind v Eng	Manchester	1952 #
47 & 74	NZ v Eng	Lord's	1958
82 & 93	Eng v NZ	Christchurch	1983-84
59 & 53	Pak v Aus	Sharjah	2002-03
59 & 99	Zim v NZ	Harare	2005-06 #

"#" indicates dismissed twice in a single day's play