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Brendan Taylor: Veteran batter Brendan Taylor said it was incredibly difficult for him to stay away from Zimbabwe's national team after he made a successful comeback to international cricket after four years on Thursday.

Taylor returned to Zimbabwe's XI in the second test against New Zealand after serving a three-and-a-half-year ban for breaching the ICC's anti-corruption code.

"How good is it that three years ago, I couldn't get out of bed and now I am here doing what I love, and that's representing Zimbabwe?" Taylor told the broadcaster in an emotional interview before the first day's play. "Dealing with the sanction, dealing with my own internal chaos - there was not a specific day, there were multiple days of trauma.