There is a particular kind of quiet confidence that comes from having done the work. Not the loud, chest-beating kind. The settled kind. The kind that lets a team land in a host nation, endure gruelling back-to-back bus journeys across the country, and still walk onto a cricket field knowing exactly who they are and what they are capable of. That is the Zimbabwe that has emerged from the group stage of this T20 World Cup. Their cricketing team is known as ‘Chevrons’ in their country due to the ‘inverted v’ shaped pattern on their jerseys, which is inspired from the historic ruins at Great Zimbabwe Stone monument. And now the Chevrons have punched their ticket to the Super Eights — a feat that, for a cricket nation that has spent long stretches on the outside looking in at the sport’s top table, carries enormous weight. It was not stumbled upon. Head coach Justin Sammons traces the blueprint back nearly two years, to conversations and decisions made long before a single ball was bowled on …