Five limited overs upsets that stunned the cricket world

New Delhi: Short formats of cricket game have gained so much popularity and attracted money over the years that purists wonder if test where the skills of individuals players and the team are tested, has any future….? Such is the unpredictable short format of the game that even minnows have shocked the giants of the game. Latest example is Netherlands who stunned England in Chittagong on Monday. This is not the first time Netherlands have done it, the Dutch have defeated their Test opponents in the ICC World Twenty20. India TV recalls five huge limited overs shockersNottingham, 1983Zimbabwe beat Australia The 1983 World Cup got off to a sensational start as Zimbabwe, then a non-Test nation, defeated an Australia side featuring all-time greats in Allan Border, Rodney Marsh and Dennis Lillee by 13 runs. Zimbabwe captain and future England coach Duncan Fletcher led from the front with an unbeaten 69 before taking four wickets for 42 runs.Cardiff, 2005Bangladesh beat Australia Reigning world champions Australia were 1/500 with some London bookmakers to win this match before play started against perennial makeweights Bangladesh. But a brilliant hundred by Mohammad Ashraful saw Bangladesh to only their 10th win in 108 one-day internationals amid jubilant scenes at Sophia Gardens.Lord's, 2009The Netherlands beat England Lightning struck for the first time when the Dutch kicked off the 2009 World Twenty20 at the 'home of cricket' with a dramatic four-wicket success. England, without the injured Kevin Pietersen, were held to 162 for five but, with Tim de Grooth making 49, the Dutch got home off the last ball of the match when bowler Stuart Broad missed with a wild shy at the stumps and the minnows pinched an extra run off the over-throw. Broad, Eoin Morgan and Ravi Bopara would all experience the feeling of losing to the Netherlands again five years later.Bangalore, 2011Ireland beat England Kevin O'Brien struck the fastest-ever World Cup hundred as Ireland chased down a seemingly challenging 327 to win by three wickets. O'Brien needed just 50 balls for his century and in total made 113 off 63 deliveries including 13 fours and six sixes.Chittagong, 2014The Netherlands beat England Double Dutch disaster for England as they rounded off their World Twenty20 campaign in emphatically embarrassing fashion. It seemed England were half-way to victory in holding the Dutch to 133 for five only to collapse to 88 all out and a 45-run defeat -- a mammoth margin in a Twenty20 match. No England batsman made more than Bopara's 18 and there were only four fours in the entire innings. Mudassar Bukhari (3-12) and Logan van Beek (3-9) were the Dutch's destroyers-in-chief with the ball.