By Sports Reporter Cameroon (0) 1 Zimbabwe (0) 0 ZIMBABWE put on a commendable defensive effort but it was not enough as they succumbed to a morale sapping defeat in their first Group A fixture of the 2020 African Nations Championships (CHAN) against hosts Cameroon this Saturday evening. Although they struggled to create any meaningful
By Sports Reporter WARRIORS striker Prince Dube has returned to training at Tanzanian club Azam FC after recovering from a broken ulna bone on his left arm. The free-scoring 23-year-old Zimbabwe international has been sidelined since suffering the fracture in a league match between his club Azam and Young Africans in the Tanzanian Vodacom Premier
By Sports Reporter ZIMBABWE cricket legend Andy Flower is set to replace Misbah-ul-Haq as the coach of Pakistan’s senior cricket team, former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has claimed. Flower, a former Zimbabwe captain and England coach has had an illustrious cricketing career, and the records show why he is known as one of the
By Sports Reporter WARRIORS coach Zdravko Logarusic has dismissed concerns about his players’ lack of competitive game time ahead of his team’s African Nations Championships (CHAN) opener against hosts Cameroon at the Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo in Yaounde Saturday. Zimbabwe head into the continental championships reserved for locally-based players on the back of inadequate preparations as
By Sports Reporter ZIMBABWE international striker Knox Mutizwa has blamed lack of regular game time at his South African DSTV Premiership club, Golden Arrows, for his failure to replicate his goal scoring form last season. The Warriors star scored 13 goals for Golden Arrows last term, three shy of joint top scorers in the South
By Sports Reporter WARRIORS star Tino Kadewere has been recognised for his fine form at Olympique Lyon after being nominated for the December Player of the Month award in the French Ligue 1. The 25-year-old Zimbabwe international is one of the three nominees for the monthly gong alongside his Cameroonian teammate Karl Toko Ekambi and
By Sports Reporter ZIMBABWE Warriors attacking midfielder Khama Billiat is set to be sidelined for two months after suffering a leg bone crack in Kaizer Chiefs’ 2-0 loss against Maritzburg United last weekend. Billiat was injured in a poor tackle from Travis Graham, in Saturday’s league, and had to be substituted three minutes after half
By Sports Reporter WARRIORS defender Tendayi Darikwa is determined to make up for lost time by making an instant impact after joining English League One side Wigan Athletic until the end of the 2020-21 campaign. Darikwa (29) joins Latics after a challenging spell in his career following injury; with his last competitive match for Championship
By Sports Reporter ZIMBABWE champions FC Platinum have been drawn against Senegalese side ASC Diaraf in the playoff round of the CAF Confederation Cup after the competition’s draw conducted at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt Friday. The Norman Mapeza-coached side were demoted from the prestigious Champions League after falling 1-4 on aggregate to Tanzanian
TimesLive In a huge development in the career of Percy Tau, Brighton and Hove Albion have recalled the Bafana Bafana foward from loan at Belgian club Anderlecht. Having found form at Anderlecht this season Tau is set to realise his dream of playing in the English Premiership. Brighton announced the recall of Tau – who
By Sports Reporter ZIMBABWE’S sports regulatory body, the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) has granted the green light for the Warriors to participate in the African Nations Championship (CHAN) tournament that gets underway in Cameroon on January 16. The country’s participation in the continental tournament for players plying their trade in their respective domestic leagues
By Sports Reporter PROMISING Warriors striker Admiral Muskwe has been handed a good chance to showcase his talent after joining English Championship side Wycombe on loan until the end of the season from Leicester City’s development team. The 22-year-old Zimbabwe international joins Wycombe in what is his second senior spell away from the King Power
Simba SC…… (1) 4 FC Platinum..(0) 0 (Simba SC progress to the group stage 4-1 on aggregate) A DEPLETED FC Platinum crashed out of the CAF Champions League following a 4-0 defeat to Tanzanian side Simba Sports Club in their second round, second leg encounter at the Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium in Dar es Salaam
By Sports Reporter FC Platinum coach Norman Mapeza has backed his charges to secure their place in the group stages of the CAF Champions League when they face Tanzanian giants Simba SC in the return leg of their first round tie at the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday. The Zvishavane based
Cricbuzz ZIMBABWE Cricket has been forced to put all the cricketing activities on hold with immediate effect as a spike in Covid-19 cases in the country resulted in fresh imposition of lockdown restrictions by the government. Zimbabwe is said to have recorded 1 342 positive cases and 29 deaths in the space of one week,
By Sports Reporter UNITED States-based Zimbabwe international goalkeeper Tatenda Mkuruva has signed a personal endorsement with EGO Sport in a deal that will see him wearing American Sportswear Company’s range of goalkeeping gloves. The 24-year-old former Dynamos goalkeeper recently completed a successful season at Michigan Stars FC who ply their trade in the third tier
By Sports Reporter ZIMBABWE’S government has for the second time banned all sporting activities after the announcement of 30 days of lockdown regulations following an increase of coronavirus infections during the festive season. Vice president Constantino Chiwenga, who is also the health minister, late Saturday announced fresh lockdown regulations following a spike in coronavirus cases
Telegraph UK A FEW months after Zimbabwe had so unexpectedly gatecrashed the global netball party in finishing eighth at their debut World Cup in 2019 – and doing so with some of the most exciting netball of the tournament – the updated world rankings were released. Ranked 13th going into the tournament, Zimbabwe had hoped their exploits
By Sports Reporter THE Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (ZOC) has appointed one of its board members Stephen Mudawarima as its new chief executive, taking over from Anna Mguni who stepped down after a nine-year reign at the national Olympic body. A seasoned sports and anti-doping expert Mudawarima was prior to his new appointment a member of
By Sports Reporter FORMER Zimbabwe Cricket chief executive Dave Ellman-Brown, one of the key figures behind the country attaining Test status in the early 1990s, has died at the age of 82. Ellman-Brown passed away on New Year’s Eve at his home. He was an honorary life president of Zimbabwe Cricket at the time of
