BULAWAYO – Bulawayo Chiefs became the second team to gain promotion into the Premier Soccer League following their 2-0 win over Makomo in a Southern Region Division One League match at Hartsfield Ground on Wednesday. Chiefs took their unbeaten run to 20 games and wrapped up the championship with six matches to spare much to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) will know whether their bid to host the 2019 Cricket World Cup qualifiers has been accepted when the ICC makes the announcement today. There are two other bids from the United Arab Emirates while Ireland and Scotland submitted as co-hosts. The ICC is currently meeting in New Zealand where ZC is…
HARARE – Dynamos coach Lloyd Mutasa wants his side to maintain the momentum they had regained shortly before last weekend’s break during the Chibuku Super Cup quarter-finals. The Glamour Boys were inactive last weekend as they were booted out of the knockout competition in the first round. Mutasa’s side, who currently enjoy a three-point lead…
HARARE – Respected Zimbabwe sports administrator Mark Manolios has described Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC)’s life honorary president Alwyn Pichanick who passed away in Australia this week as a legend. Pichanick succumbed to cancer. He was 84. He is largely credited for putting the then Zimbabwe Cricket Union on the International Cricket Council map after the country…
HARARE – The fear of being another golf amateur who turned pro too early must have been at the back of Benjamin Follet-Smith’s mind as he teed up last week in his first tournament as a professional. That he could go on to spend years struggling on mini-tours even made his impromptu decision all the…
HARARE – The Zambezi Cheetahs’ recent qualification for the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens finals to be held in San Francisco, United States has exposed the lack of support the government has for minority sports. Zimbabwe Sevens side returned home last Sunday from a largely successful 2017 Africa Cup Sevens tournament in Kampala, Uganda where…
HARARE – Although they are out of the Castle Lager Premiership title race, Highlanders coach Erol Akbay says his side will not had FC Platinum any favours this Sunday at Barbourfields Stadium. Under normal circumstances, this fixture would have been a top of the table clash but Highlanders are now only playing for pride. The…
HARARE – Friendly Academy is hoping to win the Durban Friendship Soccer Tournament (OR Tambo Cup) that begins in South Africa today. The Harare-based football academy, which trains at Raylton Sports Club, left Zimbabwe at the weekend for the Under-21 competition which was scheduled to start yesterday. However, heavy rains in KwaZulu Natal that claimed…
HARARE – After a week-long mini-break to pave way for the Chibuku Super Cup quarter-finals, the intriguing Castle Lager Premiership race resumes this weekend. All the leading four title contenders — Dynamos, Ngezi Platinum Stars, FC Platinum and Chicken Inn — were inactive over the past weekend as they were knocked out early from the…
HARARE – Harare City Hornets made it back-to-back wins with a convincing 75-34 victory over Arcadia Bucs in a Harare Basketball League match over the weekend. Hornets picked up from where they left off in their opening game of the season when they dismissed Cheetahs 33-37, playing a daring passing game, showing great patience before…
