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…
HARARE – ZPC Kariba took over control of the Castle Premiership log leadership after a convincing 3-0 win against Shabanie Mine here yesterday. Second half goals from Moses Makanje, Pride Tafirenyika and Norest Mkwezaramba were enough for the Kariba side to extent their unbeaten run to 19 games. ZPC Kariba took full advantage of former…
HARARE – The long wait for this one-off Test match finally ended at 10m yesterday morning when Brendan Taylor won the toss and elected to bat against South Africa. The pitch seems to be devoid of most of the grass coverage we normally have at Harare Sports Club. In fact, it resembled a pitch not…
HARARE – Zimbabwe were able to mount a resistance against a quality South African bowling attack to bat all the overs on the first day of the one-off Test match closing on 248 for nine at stumps here yesterday. This is only the fourth time Zimbabwe has been able to get past the 200 mark…
BULAWAYO – Defending champions Dynamos continued with their dominance over Highlanders when they collected maximum points during an incident packed Premiership match here on Saturday. Roderick Mutuma’s goal shortly after the halftime break was all the Harare giants needed extend their unbeaten run against Bosso that stretches back to 2006. The defeat also heaped pressure…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Davies Cup team received a timely boost yesterday from Old Mutual were they received sponsorship worth $17 330. The sponsorship comes at a time the team is preparing for a Euro-Africa Group Two tournament to be held in Cairo, Egypt, from September 8-13. 12 teams will take up part in the…
HARARE – Kudakwashe Remba, organiser of the Herentals’ Principal Directors’ Trophy, has praised the talent on show during the tournament, won overall by Mabvuku Herentals. Mabvuku won the tournament with 12 points on Thursday in the capital, finishing two points ahead of Kwekwe Herentals. High-density side Mabvuku were victorious in both the boys and girls…
HARARE – For four years, the coaching post at FC Platinum has changed hands several times – circumstances differing each time – so much it’s hard to remember past the last coach. The constant demise of coaches at Platinum started a little over four years ago with the tragic death of Benjamin Moyo. The financially…
