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Zimbabwe on the backfoot

Siddhartha Mishra, in his article in the Indian Express , tries to examine some of the reasons why Zimbabwe, who lit up the previous World Twenty20 with a shock win over Australia, find themselves in oblivion two years hence.

Siddhartha Mishra, in his article in the Indian Express, tries to examine some of the reasons why Zimbabwe, who lit up the previous World Twenty20 with a shock win over Australia, find themselves in oblivion two years hence.

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Why is Zimbabwe, a cricketing nation with Full Member status, not out there, entertaining our 20/20 vision-endowed eyeballs with its brand of sl­am-bang cricket? Politics. Much as the question is thought-provoking, the answer, shorn of subtl­e­ty, is disappointingly clichéd.

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Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo