World cup T-20 is starting from tomorrow. Before the start of event there is a tradition of warm-up matches to get into some practice. In the warm-up match between Zimbabwe and Australia the match was won by Zimbabwe. This is very alarming for Australia as they never qualify for the world cup T-20 final  and now they lost their opening match against a weak team if Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe played first and scored 173 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in 20 over and in reply Australia was restricted to 172 for 7. Mitchell Johnson took taken four wickets for 23 runs. In last over Australia was in need of thirteen runs and it looked easy for Australia to get it. But Australia was not able to chase the total of 173 and score only 172 runs. Elton Chigumbura of Zimbabwe played a lovely inning of 76 of just 35 balls. Shane Watson of Australia was punished with 34 runs in 2 over. Brett Lee got injury in the match and now he is out of World Cup. The warm up match was not good for him as he was facing last ball of the inning and could manage to score 1 run on leg-bye.

Tags: Australia, Zimbabwe