Raza, Masakadza star in Zimbabwe's momentous series win

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One of the virtues of sport is to learn lessons from stinging failures and use it is as a springboard to success. Failure forces sportsmen to dig deep and fuel motivation to achieve success. In the cricketing landscape, Zimbabwe was going through what seemed like a never-ending tunnel of darkness. In the recent past, the African nation had lost a 50-over game each to Scotland and Netherlands.

Despite disappointing performances, Zimbabwe's players refused to throw themselves into the towel and instead, conquered the fear of failure by defeating their more fancied opponent, Sri Lanka, in the final ODI to seal their first-ever series against the island nation across formats. But there must have been a few jangling nerves and chewed nails in the Zimbabwe camp as they lost a slew of wickets on their way to a momentous three-wicket win.

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