Zimbabwe, world cricket’s much-liked giant-slayers, are back
But the feat has deeper meaning and wider ramification. It’s a moment of catharsis for several generations of Zimbabwean crickets; it’s a fillip for the sport itself that Zimbabwe is reacquainting with the old giant-slaying habits that once made them equally feared and loved. It was a triumph of two generations of Zimbabwean cricketers. One that saw the good and hard times; political unrest crumbling their dreams, the pangs of living in a post-colonial world, poverty and inflation sweeping by. The other was born into the milieu of an unstable economy, hyperinflation, rampant unemployment, and grew up in a repressed social environment. Robert Mugabe had begun his tenure in 1980 with a Bob Marley song and a vision that cricket could make Zimbabwe a nation of gentlemen. Two decades later, the once benevolent leader had become despotic, forcing mass exodus of white Zimbabweans. Into this uncertain world was born the current brigade of Zimbabwe cricket. One of them was their pace bowling hero Blessing Muzarabani. He was born into penury. His parents died when he …
