🏏ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026:M19: AUS vs ZIM, Colombo 🏏 - Page 10

Originally posted by: PunnyPotato

Bhai sahab

Zimbabwe won

I literally was like defeat Australia

Bro same!!! Though I am surprised — AUSTRALIA, who would have thought ?

Originally posted by: WildestDreams

Yssss! We had the first upset of the WC

I didn’t want to jinx Zim😂

Sameeee

I was like will just watch won't comment

Originally posted by: missFiesty_69

Bro same!!! Though I am surprised — AUSTRALIA, who would have thought ?

Funniest would be if Australia doesn't qualifies which won't happen but whatever

Originally posted by: PunnyPotato

Seeing Raza playing from years now.

Aaj uski age check ki, dude is gonna be 40 in April 😯

He’s been playing so good. He had cramps so he couldn’t bowl his full quota.

Did you know he has the most number of player of the match awards for ZIM ?

Originally posted by: PunnyPotato

Funniest would be if Australia doesn't qualifies which won't happen but whatever

Fingers crossed. It gives me immense petty pleasure to see Australia loosing a match pls don’t ask me why.

Nithin Kokkisa: "The world cup has truly started now. This game completely changes all the games that are going to follow. What a match, what a team!! "

These are also the best figures for Zimbabwe against a Full Member team in men's T20Is, bettering Luke Jongwe's 4 for 18 against Pakistan in 2021.

Blessing Muzarabani's 4 for 17 are the best bowling figures for Zimbabwe at the men's T20 World Cup.

Zimbabwe’s wins across formats vs Australia

By 13 runs (ODI), Trent Bridge, 1983 WC (c: Duncan Fletcher)

By 5 wkts (T20I), Cape Town, 2007 WC (c: Prosper Utseya)

By 3 wkts (ODI), Harare, 2014 (c: Elton Chigumbura)

By 3 wkts (ODI), Townsville, 2022 (c: Regis Chakabva)

By 23 runs (T20I), Colombo RPS, 2026 WC (c: Sikandar Raza)*

Zimbabwe's wins vs other FM teams at T20 WC

vs AUS, Cape Town, 2007

vs IRE, Hobart, 2022

vs PAK, Perth, 2022

vs AUS, Colombo, 2026*

Zimbabwe is the only team with a 100% win-record over Australia in the Men's T20 WC.

Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe - Colombo's RPS is filled with happy Zimbabwean faces even as the Australian supporters can't fathom at how their team has lost this game. They were asked to bat, they scrambled along to 169 for 2 and that score was good enough to give them a 23-run win. Blessing Muzarabani and Brad Evans were superb with the new-ball as they sliced through Australia's top-order. Inglis was caught in the deep, Green and Tim Davies bagged ducks and Travis Head dragged one back onto the stumps to leave them at 29 for 4. Glenn Maxwell (31) and Matt Renshaw (65) added 77 for the 5th wicket and brought their team back into the game. Zimbabwe lost skipper Sikandar Raza to cramps and the moment seemed to have been lost. But Ryan Burl came to fill an over and he castled Maxwell, Stoinis - who braved an injury earlier in the day was dismissed cheaply and the lower-order fell away even as the required rate soared. Renshaw kept fighting, but Evans and Muzarabani came back to apply the finishing touches. A famous day in the annals of Zimbabwe cricket, they assessed the conditions better, they played the better cricket and they walk away with two points in the bag.

Blessing Muzarabani is the POTM for his career-best figures of 4 for 17:

"[His best spell?]
Yeah, I think one of those, because I was bowling to one of the best players in the world (on bowling to Travis Head). So I was really happy that today really came off really nice. The good thing, I saw the boundary, it was in my favour. So I just had to use the boundary and the wicket was really slow as well. So I just had to adjust. I also believe that everyone really bowled well. And everyone else, you know, came in for the team.
[On missing Ngarava]

So yes, we missed Richi (Ngarava), but Brad (Evans) really bowled well. Especially when you're tall, it's sometimes really hard to really know that yorker, but sometimes you just try and look for whatever is working on the day. Yes, it's really good (to beat Australia), but it's also nice to qualify (for the Super-8). So we'll be thinking about the next step.

Originally posted by: PunnyPotato

Sameeee

I was like will just watch won't comment

I was itching to drop a comment after PP as aussie lost 4 wks