10 biggest innings defeats in Test cricket

#8 New Zealand vs Zimbabwe at Napier (26-28 January 2012)

Margin: Innings & 301 runs

Skipper Ross Taylor led from the front for New Zealand with a brilliant hundred

The same two sets of teams feature again with the setting shifting to Napier and the one-off Test in the summer of 2012, the latest entrant in this list. Yet again, it was the Black Caps who batted first and as in the previous case, two centuries, this time from Ross Taylor and BJ Watling, saw the hosts pile up 495 in the first innings.

Zimbabwe posted their lowest ever innings total of 51 in Test cricket history in the first innings of this Test match and could only add a further 143 runs in the second innings giving the home side a comfortable victory by an innings and 301 runs.