Each cricketing nation is no stranger to upsets wins, and losses. For minnow sides, dismantling one of the game's best XIs comes around like a blue moon.

From Ireland to Zimbabwe, Bangladesh to Kenya, some of the smaller nations have chalked up some of the biggest wins ever seen on a cricket field.

Here we look at five of the most famous wins from minnow nations.

2. Zimbabwe beat Australia in their first ever ODI

The year was 1983 and after doing everything humanly possible to make the World Cup - including selling cakes to raise money - Zimbabwe were on their way to England. Yet, as they arrived at Trent Bridge for their first match, simply being there was widely seen as the best achievement they could hope for.

Facing Australia, nerves were acute. Batsman Dave Houghton reflected that the Australian players were their "heroes" and that playing against them seemed surreal.

At 5/94, it seemed that the stage was too big for them. Yet, up against Lillee and Thomson, their talismanic all-rounder Duncan Fletcher scored a classy 69 to lead them to a total of 293 from the 60 overs. Despite the strong finish, with the likes of David Hookes and Kepler Wessels in Australia's shed, it looked more than a few runs short.

Australia were looking steady at 4/138 in response before Wessels was run-out for 76 by a sensational Jack Heron direct hit. From there, Duncan Fletcher made himself a hero of Zimbabwean cricket for a second time in the match, taking 4/ 42 and subjecting Australia to a 13-run loss.

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The significance was bigger than the result, however. Zimbabwe had shown that they belonged at the international level. Perhaps inspired by this result, they went on to have several decades of overachieving. The peak was reached in 1999 when they finished fifth in the World Cup.