RUSAPE – Dongo Sawmills’ home fans will have to wait another day to see their team win a Castle Lager Premiership contest in their maiden season after they were thumped 3-0 by Harare City at Vengere Stadium yesterday. Their sole win this since the beginning over the season came away to Flame Lily last week….
HARARE – CAPS United had their goalkeeper Chris Mverechena to thank after he pulled off several spectacular saves as they were held by a fired up Flame Lily here yesterday. In truth United were never in the game for the entire afternoon and survived by the skin of their teeth, thanks to the brilliance of…
HARARE – Prop Denford Mutamangira has been handed the Sables captaincy for the Car Africa Cup opener against Kenya this Saturday and wants unity to prevail in camp if the team is to conquer. The former Scotland-based front rower takes over from Daniel Hondo, who retired after Zimbabwe’s failed 2015 World Cup campaign. “A little…
HARARE – Drag racing looks set to continue its dominance on the local motorsport scene after another spectacular show on Sunday at the second round of the Telecel 2015 Drag Racing Series held at Donnybrook Raceway. Three thousand five hundred plus fans thronged the venue to watch the 60 competitors battle it out on the…
HARARE – Kevin Derere hopes to become the first black-Zimbabwean jockey to win the OK Grand Challenge since Nkululelo Sibanda rode Century Star to victory in 2008. Derere will lead Thriller In Manila into the starting gate for the 27th edition of the OK Grand Challenge that will be run over 1 800 metres at…
HARARE – Graystone Stud bred Yer-Maan lived up to pre-race expectations after producing a top ride to land the 2015 OK Grand Challenge main race over 1 800m here yesterday. With champion jockey Quinton Riddle holding the straps the six-year-old gelding rediscovered the form that saw him win the Castle Tankard last month to clinch…
HARARE – Dav Whatmore, the Zimbabwe cricket team coach, says limited overs captain Elton Chigumbura’s batting was a revelation in the just ended tour of Pakistan. Zimbabwe were whitewashed by the South Asian country; losing both the Twenty20 and One Day Internationals matches. The locals became only the first Test-playing nation to visit Pakistan after…
BULAWAYO – Elijah Mabhunu managed to win the third edition of the Old Mutual Nkulumane 10km Fun Run in a time of 29:50:23. In the ladies category, 27-year-old Olivia Chitate made it three in a row when she won the race in a time of 33:40:71. The two athletes were rewarded $1 000 each for…
HARARE – Zimbabwe top tennis player Takanyi Garanganga put up an impressive performance but bowed out in the quarter-finals of the Italy F12 last week. The Zimbabwe Davis Cup player was knockout of the last eight by Switzerland’s Yann Marti after suffering a 6-4, 6-2 defeat. On his way to the quarter-finals the Mbare-born player…
HARARE – With four runners in Saturday’s OK Grand Challenge Grande2 race at Borrowdale Race Park, Gokhan Terzi is hoping for a good outing for his stable. Super Trouper, Merhaba, Rock The Country and Got A Hold On Me will be representing Terzi’s yard in the big race with a purse of $40 000 and…
