Zimbabwe's unconventional bowling attack

Australia defeated Zimbabwe by 91 runs. Though the result may say the win was convincing, it was not! But that’s a different story…  

My today’s story is about Zimbabwe’s bowling and bowlers. Did you notice the bowling attack of Zimbabwe? If you have missed to notice or just for your recap here is the list of bowlers, their bowling style and how they performed against Australia:

Bowlers	Bowling Style	O	M	R	W	Econ
CB Mpofu	Right-arm fast-medium	9	0	58	2	6.44
RW Price	Slow left-arm orthodox	10	0	43	1	4.30
P Utseya	Right-arm off-break	10	2	43	1	4.30
AG Cremer	Leg-break googly	10	0	41	1	4.10
BRM Taylor	Right-arm off-break	3	0	23	0	7.66
E Chigumbura	Right-arm medium	2	0	18	0	9.00
SC Williams	Slow left-arm orthodox	6	0	29	0	4.83

So, Zimbabwe used 5 'slow bowl' bowlers and even one of them opened the bowling. 4 out of 5 of them bowled really well against Australia... and that too during the 'power play' overs. And these bowlers restricted Australia to 262. And thats because they were bowling on line, short of good length and of course they were 'slow'.  


I believe this is an absolute revelation and an eye-opener for all other teams. Though Australia's pacers did well and Ponting commented "If we get those three up and running and bowling as well as they can, then I don't care what team we're playing against or what conditions we're playing in, that intimidation is going to be there. Those three guys are pushing 150kph and with the conditions that we've seen, the ball's going to reverse at different times here as well". But this is only the first match and that too against Zimbabwe's batters - and I believe Ponting has commented too early. 


I feel slow bowlers (bowling on correct line and length) are the key to bowling success for the teams in this world cup!! What do you feel??