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Australia were whitewashed in Pakistan when they entered this tournament, losing their captain to internal testicular bleeding earlier this week. The defeat to Zimbabwe could therefore plausibly still be considered ‘on the rise’.
Today’s result moves Australia’s T20 World Cup record against Zimbabwe to ‘two played, two lost’. In the previous match it was in 2007they were bowled out for 138, so 146 again smacks of progress.
Add to that the fact that the team at the time consisted of both Matthew Hayden and Brad Haddin, and it’s hard to argue that major progress isn’t being made here.
If you’re wondering how Cricket Australia’s official website reported the result, they used the obvious headline: “Boil over!“
The body of the article reports that “Zimbabwe defeated Australia in a stunning T20 World Cup boilover in Colombo.”
Australian sporting jargon is a source of endless joy for us. We’ve been reading Australian sports coverage for about 20 years and can’t remember a previous ‘boilover’. We have no idea how it passed us by, but we have great confidence that we will now encounter it about once a week until the day we die.
For what it’s worth, we regularly suffer from boilovers ourselves, because when we leave a pan to simmer with the lid ajar, it always seems to wobble back into place, at which point the internal heat rises and the pan boils over. As far as we can tell, there are lots of online ‘hacks’ to prevent a pot from boiling over, but almost all of them seem to involve not using the lid.
Australia have significantly minimized the number of Zimbabwe boilovers they can suffer through the simple tactic of never playing them. Maybe we can all learn from that. Maybe we should do without a pan lid.
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