Sporting News

By Nigel Nyamutumbu HARARE – Settling back from the drive from Zimbabwe's second capital, the City of Kings and Queens, Bulawayo, I had a story to tell. Well, quite a few stories to tell. For any journalist that has set foot in a structured newsroom, before you started working on any stories for that day or week, diary meetings are convened to test whether any story idea is worth pursuing. This is normally a robust exercise. After all, everywhere or everyone is making

By Enock Muchinjo HARARE – Knowledgeable Sables fans will not be astonished by the mildly dissatisfied murmurs from the Springbok camp that the South Africa ‘A’ side wasn’t as clinical enough as they would have liked to see against Zimbabwe on Saturday. Simply because, unless you’re merely an armchair critic like most who have reacted to the result, everything leading up to the outcome in Gqeberha on Saturday will make sense beyond what the graphic designers circulated af

HARARE – Zimbabwe Cricket has named a 15-man squad for the one-off Test against Bangladesh, with left-arm fast bowler Richard Ngarava set to captain the national side for the first time in the longest format. The match is scheduled to start on Sunday at Harare Sports Club, marking Zimbabwe’s return to Test cricket following their emphatic innings-and-73-run victory over Afghanistan at the same venue in October last year. Ngarava was one of the standout performers in that

By Nigel Nyamutumbu HARARE – It is inherently human to be biased. What informs human biases is subject to scholarly debates across behavioral studies, among them sociology and psychology. This is no wonder why in any contest with ultimate victors, human beings are inclined to take sides. Sport rivalry is a typical example of how human beings are emotive, openly aligned and have categorical preferences. Historical football rivalries in Zimbabwe have predominantly bee