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His next best score was 96 against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo in 1996–97, which was the first ever Test match that was a draw with the scores level. Having scored 56 in the first innings, he was at the crease for the entire second innings. Knight and Alec Stewart anchored the chase of 205 runs from the remaining 37 overs in the days play. This was a required run-rate of 5.54 runs per over, high not only for Test cricket in general, but also for a last innings chase and even more unlikely with Zimbabwe bowling extremely wide deliveries that the umpires only rarely punished with a wide call. Stewart was dismissed for 73 leaving the score at 2/154, then Nasser Hussain was out for 0, John Crawley for 7 and Graham Thorpe for 2 with the English score 5/182. Tail ender Darren Gough, who scored 2 from 7 balls, and Knight remained together as they looked to score the last 23 runs. Needing 11 off the final over, Knight hit a 6 early into the over by flaying a legside delivery from Streak over midwicket in a shot reminiscent of limited overs cricket. He followed with a 2, assisted by Gough sprinting back to the non-strikers end to make his ground. On strike for the last ball needing 3 to win, or a 6 to win and reach his second Test century, Knight charged down the pitch, hit through to deep cover hard enough that he thought it would go for a boundary, only for the grass outfield to hold the ball up as a fielder came around and returned the ball back to Andy Flower. The English batsmen scrambled two runs, turned for a third as Flower backtracked but still caught the incoming return and whipped the bails off to complete a run-out of Knight as the batters hadn't crossed yet. Knight was awarded man of the match for his efforts. A scores level draw had never happened in Test matches until this game, and before a second occurrence in 2011 between India and the West Indies, it was more rare than a Tied Test.^[3]