HARARE – Former Zimbabwe Test captain Heath Streak was named specialist bowling coach of the Bangladesh cricket team yesterday. Streak will arrive in Dhaka in the first week of June and will form a new-look coaching partnership with head coach Chandika Hathurusingha. Announcing the appointment, Bangladesh Cricket Board media committee chairman Jalal Yunus said: “Heath…
HARARE – Zimbabwean cricket coaches continue to make headlines on the international scene despite the current state of the game at home. Heath Streak, Zimbabwe’s all-time leading all-rounder with 4933 runs and 455 wickets in international cricket, was yesterday appointed the Bangladesh specialist bowling coach on a two-year contract. While the local game continues to…
BULAWAYO – The Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) successfully held trials at Falcon College to select the national Under-14 side that will take part in this year’s edition of the Coca-Cola Craven Week. A squad of 22 players was selected for the rugby fiesta that will be held in Durban, South Africa from June 27 to…
GABORONE – Zimbabwean swimmers found the going tough on day six of the on-going Africa Youth Games in Botswana’s capital, failing to garner a single medal yesterday. The closest they came to adding to their medal count was a fourth place finish in the 100m freestyle by Chad Idensohn. From there Zimbabwe swimmers were nowhere…
GABORONE – Zimbabwe’s top junior tennis seeds Courtney Lock and Nicole Dzenga say they are not under pressure despite huge expectations as they take on the continents top tennis players here in this land locked southern African country. Lock and Dzenga begin their hunt for medals this morning hoping to add to the two bronze…
HARARE – Arthur Tutani yesterday sensationally announced that he was stepping down as Black Rhinos coach following the army side’s 3-1 loss to Harare City in a Castle Premiership match here yesterday. Tutani, who replaced Nesbert Saruchera as the Rhinos coach halfway through last season, said he is no longer able to stop Chauya Chipembere’s…
MUTARE – Charles Sibanda scored a brace to help Highlanders maintain poll position in the Castle Premiership with a convincing 3-1 win over Buffaloes here yesterday. The former FC Platinum midfielder can even contest that he be given the other goal and claim a hat-trick, but it was adjudged as an own goal after Liberty…
HARARE – Zimbabwe women soccer assistant coach Johannes Chikaola insists the Mighty Warriors can qualify for the 2014 African Women’s Championships after losing 1-0 to Zambia in the first leg yesterday. Zambia scored through Hellen Mubanga in the second half to give the visitors a slender lead ahead of the second leg in Lusaka. Chikaola…
GABORONE – Chad Idensohn was yesterday elated after scooping Team Zimbabwe’s first silver medal with a cracking 23.73 in the 50 metre swimming freestyle here at the on-going African Youth Games. The former St John’s College pupil, who moved to South Africa in 2012 in the quest of a better platform to help him realise…
HARARE – Dynamos coach Calisto Pasuwa is concerned about his side’s lack of creativity in recent Castle Premiership matches ahead of Sunday’s clash with league debutants Chiredzi FC. Dynamos have so far won four games draw one and lost three in their opening eight games of the 2014 season. In the process, the Glamour Boys…
