An Upset At Last

GH reports

Especially in their preliminary stages, World Cups need upsets, and the first week of this T20 World Cup had rather failed to deliver. Netherlands ran Pakistan close and Nepal took England to the final ball, but without quite getting the job done. West Indies knocking off England wasn’t wholly unexpected, while Italy routing Nepal was in the nature of a second-order shock.

The soapstone bird takes wing

Last night’s Zimbabwean triumph, then, was both just what the tournament needed, and what Australia did not. The team Travis Head is leading in Mitchell Marsh’s stead can hardly put a foot wrong from this point, and Tuesday’s encounter with Sri Lanka is stamped ‘must win’. Worse, this was not a fluke, dependent on a single performance or wrested by a single feat. Zimbabwe outplayed Australia in every department of the game - it was more like Nottingham 1983 than Cape Town 2007.

Blessed be the land of Zimbabwe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anthem_of_Zimbabwe