Half a century of Tatenda Taibu and Ervine and Craig donkey Xhibition spin bowling attack set the stage for the full implementation of 175 Zimbabwe over Canada in their group game Cricket World Cup in Nagpur.

Zimbabwe posted 298 for nine before the delivery of Canada's second straight defeat in the heavy firing for 123 in 42.1 overs with spinners to take all ten wickets to fall.

Taibu missed a century by two points, making 98 to 99 balls, while Ervine scored 85 as the pair put on 181 for the third window.

Zimbabwe slipped to seven for two at an early stage, when Brendan Taylor opens (0) and Charles Coventry (4) fell cheaply, but Taibu and Ervin, who faced 81 balls and struck six fours and two sixes , won the sleeves back on track.

Both were later rejected by Balaji Rao, who returned four figures in 1957, but the innings was given further impetus to Sean Williams (30), Graeme Cremer (26) and Prosper Utseya (22), despite Khurram Chauhan and Harvie Baidwan and taking two wickets.

Canada then failed to build partnerships and lost wickets regularly as Zimbabwe were in full control of the match, led by left-arm spinner Ray Price, who opened the bowling and returned three for 15 He dismissed John Davison opens without Nitish Kumar and mark for a single window and also took over the captain Ashish Bagai for a golden duck.

Cremer leg-spinner took three for 31 windows with Tyson Gordon (7), Chuah (8) and, finally, Rao (1) when there were two windows for each of the spinners Greg Lamb (2-29) and Utsey (2-24).

Christopher Mpofu, who opened the bowling alongside the price was the only fast bowler in use in Zimbabwe and completed only five overs, to keep things tight conceding only 12 runs.

Canada's top scorer was Zubin Surkari, who made 26 in 48 balls and contained only four and two top ten rounds.

Both teams lost their first match of the tournament - Canada down to 210 runs with co-hosts Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe under small series of 91 defending champions Australia.