Australian captain Ricky Ponting has expressed his feelings of embarrassment after his world champion side were humbled by Zimbabwe in the Twenty20 World Cup in Cape Town. Zimbabwe took a widely unexpected five-wicket win with one ball to spare.

"Yes, of course I am embarrassed and so we should be. A lot of Australians back home right now will be feeling the same way. It's not often I've walked off a cricket field feeling that way but if you go into our (changing) rooms right now you'll find that everyone else is feeling the same way.

"Our batting just wasn't good enough. We were 19-3 and that's where we lost it. It was the same in the practice matches. But we have no excuses whatsoever. They did just about everything better than we did today and we were outplayed, it's as simple as that. We were not good enough."

Zimbabwe take on England later today, and are looking for back to back victories, with new coach Robin Brown saying, "I just asked them to hold off the celebrations until Thursday night after they've beaten England. Then they can give it a full go."

You can listen to the England v Zimbabwe match on Cricket World Radio, with the match starting at 1600 GMT.

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