MUTARE – Buffaloes coach Luke Masomere is confident his team will avoid relegation from the Castle Premiership this season. The well-travelled coach watched his playersm who have not been paid their salaries and bonuses since the beginning of the season, beat fellow strugglers Bantu Rovers 2-1 at Sakubva Stadium on Saturday. Although they are not…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Brendon de Jonge finished tied for 41st place at the year’s final golf major the PGA Championship at a rain-softened Valhalla on Sunday. Three weeks after failing to make the cut at The Open Championship at Hoylake in Liverpool, the Zimbabwean ended the PGA Championship on two-under 282. Five other golfers –…
HARARE – John Nyumbu has always been a happy man and a happy cricketer. Nothing under the sun seems to wipe that infectious smile off his round face, even being made to wait for so long to make both his Test and international cricket debut at the age of 29. That permanent smirk grew even…
HARARE – Those of you who have been either brave or silly enough to have followed my columns in the Daily News will know that I have always, and I say again, always advocated for John Nyumbu. Not only because of his consistency with the ball, but he also has all the attributes a captain…
HARARE – South Africa removed Hamilton Masakadza for 19 runs as host Zimbabwe closed day three on 28-1 and trail by 113 runs in their second innings here yesterday. Masakadza was caught at third slip by South Africa vice-captain AB de Villiers while trying to fend-off a nasty bouncer from seamer Morne Morkel. Opener Vusi…
HARARE – CAPS United striker Leonard Fiyado spent the first half of the season desperately searching for goals, enduring a terrible run of form during that spell. Fiyado’s first goal of the season finally arrived in Week 18 of the Castle Premiership when he scored the consolation in United’s contentious 2-1 away defeat to Hwange…
BULAWAYO – Chicken Inn Inn coach Joe Antipas spoke of his relief yesterday after his team returned to winning ways in the Castle Premiership with a 1-0 win over Hwange. Ishmael Lawe headed home six minutes from time to ease pressure on Antipas, who had come under increasing scrutiny at the Bulawayo club. Ironically, the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe continued to make South Africa work for it as the tourists closed the second day of the only Test trailing by 55 runs on 201-4 with six wickets remaining. South Africa’s innings revolved around Faf du Plessis’ patient half century of 69 from 192 balls. Together Quinton de Kock (27 not out),…
HARARE – Some might describe yesterday’s play as boring and uninteresting. They couldn’t have been more further from the truth. Granted, it wasn’t the free-flowing and entertaining batting everybody expected to see, but it was like a game of chess. Two Grand Masters settling down over the chess board, and trying to outwit each other…
HARARE – CAPS United coach Taurai Mangwiro reacted to his team’s impressive 3-0 win over Chiredzi yesterday by lambasting his opposite number Gishon Ntini for “backbiting” him and attempting to topple him at Makepekepe. An emotionally charged Mangwiro threw down the gauntlet after the match and accused Chiredzi coach Ntini of going behind his back…
