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HARARE – Manicaland Mountaineers coach Gary Brent is confident new signings Forster Mutizwa and Innocent Chinyoka will add depth to the Mutare franchise. Mountaineers have signed wicketkeeper-batsman Mutizwa and pace bowler Innocent Chinyoka from Mashonaland Eagles to reinforce their squad ahead of the upcoming 2013-14 domestic season. Mutizwa, 28, has featured in 58 first-class matches…

HARARE – CAPS United coach Taurai Mangwiro is already planning for an assault on the league title next season after guiding the Green Machine to a fifth place finish in the just-ended 2013 Castle Premiership season. Although Mangwiro experienced a turbulent year with Makepekepe, the former Monomotapa and Masvingo United coach has his sights set…

HARARE – Zimbabwe have named several uncapped players in their squad to prepare for Sunday’s international friendly against Mozambique at Barbourfields Stadium. Ian Gorowa has announced his provisional 24-man squad for the friendly, missing a number of regular local-based players as the Warriors coach look to increase options ahead of January’s Chan finals in South…

HARARE – The Zimbabwe national Under-20 team will take on Swaziland in their first of game of the Cosafa Championships this evening in Lesotho. The Young Warriors, who last won the tournament in 2007, lock horns with Swaziland in Maseru in a Group D match that kicks off at 5pm. Jairos Tapera and his charges…

LONDON – Mitchell Johnson looked amiable and inoffensive as he wandered up North Terrace near Adelaide railway station and into town with his fast-bowling mate Peter Siddle, happy to stop and chat about his decision to allow his splendid moustache to keep growing beyond the end of Movember. But if England’s batsmen believe that the…

LONDON – Roberto Martínez has told Everton to break their “damage-limitation” mentality in the Premier League’s toughest away fixtures as they prepare for tonight’s reunion with David Moyes at Manchester United. Everton have not won at Old Trafford since 1992 and that dreadful record also continued at Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool under Moyes, who did…

HARARE – For the past three years, all the talk in Zimbabwean rugby has centred around the dream to go to the Rugby World Cup for the first time in 22 years. Zimbabwe’s Sables last played in the World Cup back in 1991 in a tournament staged in five European counties. But a talent drain,…

LONDON – Bazil will present its coastal beauty and diversity when the World Cup draw takes place on Friday at Costa do Sauipe in the state of Bahia. Millions of football fans around the world will have their eyes on the resort near Salvador as anticipation rises for next year’s June 12-July 13 tournament. “It…

LONDON – Yaya Toure has won the 2013 BBC African Footballer of the Year award. The Ivory Coast and Manchester City midfielder, who had been nominated in each of the past four years, beat Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Victor Moses, John Mikel Obi and Jonathan Pitroipa to this year’s crown. The 30-year-old told BBC Sport: “I think…

BULAWAYO – Highlanders coach Kelvin Kaindu believes his team deserved to end the 2013 season by winning the Mbada Diamonds Cup. Bosso were in top form when they dispatched How Mine 3-0 in Saturday’s final at Barbourfields Stadium which become their first major trophy since winning the league championship in 2006. The Bulawayo giants got…