We report on syntheses and electron transport properties of polycrystalline samples of diborides (AB 2 ) with different transition metals atoms (A=Zr,Nb,Ta). The temperature dependence of resistivity, ρ(T ), and ac susceptibility of these samples reveal superconducting transition of ZrB 2 with T c = 5.5 K, while NbB 2 and TaB 2 have been observed nonsuperconducting up to 0.37 K. H c2 (T) is linear in temperature below T c , leading to a rather low H c2 (0) = 0.1 T . At T close to T c H c2 (T) demonstrates a downward curvature. We conclude that these diborides as well as MgB 2 samples behaves like a simple metals in the normal state with usual Bloch-Grüneisen temperature dependence of resistivity and with Debye temperatures: 280 K, 460 K and 440 K, for ZrB 2 , NbB 2 and MgB 2 , respectively, rather than T 2 and T 3 as previously reported for MgB 2 .