Zimbabwe’s cricket team beat Australia for the first time in 31 years on August 31, 2014, as Captain Elton Chigumbura led his team to a three-wicket win in a one-day, three-team international tournament in Harare.
Zimbabwe’s only previous success against Australia, one of the world’s top-ranked teams, came in their first meeting in 1983. Since then, Zimbabwe had endured 27 defeats and one abandoned match.
“I had to be there at the end, and the most important thing was to stay calm under pressure,” Chigumbura said. “The guys have worked really hard for this, and the pleasing thing was that everybody contributed today.”
The tense victory sparked rare celebrations and a lap of honor for a team that had lost two tournaments in a row and had been beaten in its previous seven one-day matches at home.