Zimbabwe’s Chevrons get another chance to finally break their Test duck against the West Indies when the two sides clash in the second and final test scheduled for Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo. Action in the five-day match begins at 1000hrs today. The Chevrons, who are captained by veteran Craig Ervine who is standing-in for…
LOCAL Karate organisation IKO Nakamura Zimbabwe has set its sights on a first ever appearance at the All European Championship tournament scheduled for Poland later this year. After a successful 2022 season during which the organisation made big strides locally and internationally, IKO Nakamura’s Zimbabwe branch chief Shihan Tawanda Mufundisi yesterday told the Daily News…
TOP Zimbabwean professional golfers Scott Vincent and Benjamin Follett-Smith made fair starts to their respective bids for glory on the international circuit yesterday. Vincent, who wrote his name into the history books after becoming the inaugural International Series Order of Merit winner last year, earning an exemption into the premium LIV Golf events for 2023,…
ZIMBABWE’S hopes of ascending to the Davis Cup World Group I went up in smoke at Harare Sports Club yesterday when the country’s number two player, Courtney Lock slipped to a 3-6, 6-3, 4-6 defeat at the hands of his Uruguayan counterpart Ignacio Carou. Victory for Carou in the fifth and decisive rubber of the…
Emmanuel Marambe YOUNG bowler Brandon Mavuta, playing in only his second-ever Test match, was the star of the show for Zimbabwe yesterday with a five-wicket haul, as the Chevrons finally made a breakthrough against the West Indies, who were forced to declare on 447/6 in order to try and force a result in the rain-affected…
Emmanuel Marambe marambee@dailynews.co.zw ONE of Zimbabwe’s leading professional golfers Benjamin Follett-Smith made a winning start to his 2023 Sunshine Tour campaign, outperforming a stellar cast to win the Bain’s Whisky Cape Town Open title by one shot, at Royal Cape Golf Club on Sunday. After going into the final round tied for the lead with…
Emmanuel Marambe marambee@dailynews.co.zw HERBERT “Jompano” Maruwa is not fazed by the pressure-cooker situation of leading a Dynamos side that has recruited extensively over the off-season in the hope of closing the gap on four-time league winners FC Platinum. Maruwa’s predecessor Tonderayi “Stanza” Ndiraya was shown the exit door at the Glamour Boys after only managing…
Onward Gangata in Gweru FORMER Dynamos midfielder Tanaka Chidhobha has found a new home at premiership new boys, Sheasham FC, where he hopes he will get a platform to re-launch his career. Once touted as the next big thing in local football, Chidhobha failed to live up to the huge promise his career seemed to…
…Windies centurions Braithwaite, Chanderpaul dominate Zim bowlers THE visiting West Indies openers Kraigg Braithwaite and Tagenarine Chanderpaul showed their class against Zimbabwe’s bowling attack yesterday, taking the Windies from their overnight score of 112/0 to 221/0 after only 38 overs were possible yesterday due to rain and a wet outfield. With the Windies’ opening duo…
…Zim’s hopes very much alive as Davis Cup tie spills into fourth day ZIMBABWE roared back into the reckoning in the ongoing Davis Cup World Group II playoff tie against Uruguay yesterday as Courtney Lock grabbed the initiative with a 6-3 second set win in the decisive reverse singles rubber against Ignacio Carou at Harare…
