MIDDLEBURG – Zimbabwe’s Under-18 rugby team will be hoping change of fortune when they face Namibia this morning in their final game at the Coca Cola Craven Week at Middleburg High School. Zimbabwe and Namibia are the only two national sides that play in this tournament, against South African provincial select sides. The Young Sables…
HARARE – Zimbabwean golfer Bendan de Jonge missed the cut on his British Open debut yesterday after finishing four-over par 148 after two rounds. Although a number of golfers were still on the course at Hoylake by the time of going to press yesterday, the projected cut for the tournament was at level par. This…
BULAWAYO – Sean Williams’ 65-ball 70 was the leading performance in Zimbabwe’s comfortable six-wicket win against Afghanistan in Bulawayo that gave the hosts a 1-0 lead in the four-match ODI series. Williams joined his captain Brendan Taylor in the middle when the team was still 135 runs adrift of the target and carefully set about…
HARARE – How Mine have been hit hard by injuries ahead of this afternoon’s One Wallet Cup quarter-final derby clash against city rivals Highlanders at Ascot Stadium in Gweru. Inspirational captain Menard Mupera is in aplaster and so is holding midfielder Fungai Chirinda. This effectively rules out the pair for today’s clash with Bosso. Chikurupati…
ZVISHAVANE – Harare City coach Bigboy Mawiwi was left disappointed with winger Phineas Bhamusi who missed a penalty which saw the Sunshine Boys crash out of the One Wallet Cup first round here yesterday. The match had ended 1-1 after regulation time and went straight to a penalty shootout and the Sunshine Boys lost 7-6….
ZVISHAVAVNE – A late sublime strike by Clemence Matawu strike was all Chicken Inn needed to reach the semi-finals of the One Wallet Cup at FC Platinum’s expense yesterday here. With the match seemingly headed for a draw and a penalty shootout, Matawu made a clever run into the Platinum box where e met a…
JOHANNESBURG – Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Khama Billiat remains sidelined with a metatarsal fracture which has seen him miss the club’s pre-season preparations. Billiat, who still has a cast on his left foot and is using crutches, is only expected back at training next month. The Zimbabwean suffered the injury in February and then aggravated it…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Bmx president Paul Denslow has backed his riders to excel at the Bmx World Championships that begin next week in Rotterdam, Holland. At least 4000 riders will battle for honours in Holland’s second-largest city with 13 Zimbabwean riders announcing their presence across the challenge and junior elite categories. Zimbabwe faces a daunting…
HARARE – Justin Kersten may have finished the British Junior Open tied for 68 but reckons the experience gained playing against the world’s best junior golfers has refreshed his zeal to reach greater heights. Kersten was the country’s lone representative at the biennial event which is played over three rounds of stroke-play at West Lancashire…
HARARE – There is a pettiness about our national discourse, especially related to sport, that you wonder if there is any self-introspection for those “openly courting Fifa sanctions” on the national game – just to get rid of Cuthbert Dube. At best, the calls for government intervention and the dissolution of the Zimbabwe Football Association…
