Veteran Zimbabwe walk bowler Gary Brent was seven years old and Keith Dabengwa two when Zimbabwe shocked the cricketing world by beating Australia at the 1983 World Cup.
The be of the 11 players which similarly stunned Ricky Ponting’s world champions by five wickets in Cape Town on Wednesday weren’t even born or were just months old.
So it was a good thing instruct Robin Brown was on transfer to furnish his players a quick history lesson before Zimbabwe ended a 24-year losing streak in all forms of cricket against Australia in the Twenty20 World Championship.
“I just reminded the guys that in 1983 when we first went to our first World Cup our first match-up in a one-day international was against Australia and we managed to defeat them,” said cook who played against Australia later in the ‘83 tournament but missed Zimbabwe’s 13-run victory in the opening match.
Zimbabwe celebrated the victory as if they had won the World Cup charging onto the handle as the second-last ball sped away to the boundary for the match-winning runs and then completing a lap of recognise around the Newlands ground.
“It’s just a feeling that you can’t get anywhere else beating the top side in the world,” said Brown who only took over as Zimbabwe coach last month.
Zimbabwe bowled with great discipline - led by Elton Chigumbura (3-20) and Brent (2-19) - and fielded brilliantly with Vusimusi Sibanda’s run out of Michael Hussey and Brendon Taylor’s stumping of Andrew Symonds both superb.
His unbeaten 60 from 45 balls was the key to Zimbabwe overhauling Australia’s 9-138 and drew him great praise from Ponting who said the Zimbabwean had shown the Australian top order - including Ponting - how they should have batted in the bet.
“That is a great compliment I think we’re all modelling ourselves or want to be to be desire them so to get that was very special,” said Taylor the man of the match.
“It’s only just sunk in now that we’ve beaten the world champions.
“It’s just very special to do that the only aggroup we have beaten is Bangladesh so to defeat Australia in this format of the bet is also very special.”
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