By Admin 
Zimbabwe team has been performing amazingly under the captaincy of Sikandar Raza. In the T20 World Cup 2026, Zimbabwe surprised Australia by defeating Australia by 23 runs. This is Zimbabwe’s second consecutive win in this World Cup and its hopes of going to the Super-8 have become stronger. Australian batting flopped badly and could not even play the full 20 overs. After all, due to which 3 reasons has Australia suffered this shocking defeat?
Top order batting failure
Batting first in this match, Zimbabwe scored 169 runs. When the Australian team came to bat, the Kangaroo team had lost 4 wickets till the score of 29 runs. Josh English scored 8 runs, captain Travis Head scored 17 runs, while Cameron Green and Tim David could not even open the account. Although Matt Renshaw scored 65 runs, he could not save the team from the failure of the top order.
Zimbabwe’s counter attack worked
Australia won the toss and chose to bowl first. Deciding to chase on the Colombo pitch was not an extraordinary decision. Had everything gone right, Australia would have won, but Brian Bennett and Tadivanashe Marumani were worthy of praise, who counter-attacked and gave their team a solid start and made an opening partnership of 61 runs. Ryan Burl also took advantage of the good start, who scored 35 runs.
no one took responsibility
After losing 4 wickets for 29 runs, the Australian innings was handled by Glenn Maxwell and Matt Renshaw. There was a partnership of 77 runs between the two, but Maxwell was out after scoring 31 runs in the 15th over. Renshaw had to take responsibility from here, while the next batsman Marcus Stoinis had a chance to shine. But what actually happened was that as soon as Maxwell left, wickets started falling rapidly and no batsman could take the responsibility.
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