HARARE – Castle Premiership side Chicken Inn have announced the signing of striker Last Chibwiro from Division One side Black Mambas. “Last Chibwiro has joined us on a two year contract from Black Mambas,” said the club on their official website on Friday. “Chibwiro expressed his delight in joining the Gamecocks and said he was…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) player earnings for the forthcoming 2014-15 season can be revealed today by the Daily News, with three players – captain Brendan Taylor, his deputy Hamilton Masakadza and ex-skipper Prosper Utseya – the highest earners on $ 6 000 salaries. We can disclose that the cricketers have reclaimed their position as…
HARARE – News that former Zimbabwean international and Kaizer Chiefs defender Zhaimu “Jimmy” Jambo has retired from football came as a surprise to many people yesterday. At the relatively young age of 26, Jambo decided to call it a day after failing to recover from a horrific knee injury he suffered in October 2012 during…
HARARE – 24 hours earlier, he had met a football supporters’ body aligned to Zifa president Cuthbert Dube and announced at the meeting that he would not fire the association’s board following the calamitous failure to advance past the preliminary stage of African Nations Cup qualifiers. Not that sacking Zifa, in so doing attracting the…
HARARE – When Afghanistan arrived in the country, two questions were asked by all cricket lovers. The first question was, how much preparation would we really get by playing a team such as Afghanistan before meeting both South Africa and Australia? The second question was. How seriously would Zimbabwe take these matches, especially if they…
HARARE – Highlanders have lost another player to a South African club after defender Khumbulani Banda signed for Maritzburg United yesterday. Banda had been trying out his luck with Steve Komphela’s team for the past few weeks and the club announced the move on their official website. “The Team of Choice are determined to strengthen…
BULAWAYO – Afghanistan kept the four-match series alive with a win in the tightly-contested third ODI in Bulawayo. None of their bowlers took more than two wickets and only one of their batsmen got to a fifty – Javed Ahmadi with 56 – but they still overpowered Zimbabwe by two wickets, in a chase…
HARARE – CAPS United are on the verge of signing midfielder Nicholas Alifandika and forward Honey Chimutimunzeve to boost their squad ahead of this weekend’s Harare derby against rivals Dynamos. Alifandika and Chimutimunzeve, who have been playing for former Castle Premiership side Black Mambas in the Navi World Division One for the past seven months,…
LONDON – The Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Douglas Costa says he and his fellow players who refused to return to the Ukrainian champions did so because the conflict in the country puts their lives at risk. Costa and five other South American players refused to travel with the rest of the team to Ukraine for Tuesday’s…
LONDON – Manchester United were scheduled to rip up two training pitches at their Carrington training ground yesterday in order to fast-track Louis van Gaal’s demand for better facilities at the club. Van Gaal, who takes charge of United for the first time when they face LA Galaxy in Pasadena tonight, has made a series…
