Cricket

HARARE – Tinashe Panyangara travels four hours combined every week from state capital Melbourne to small town Traralgon, down the south-western part of Victoria, to play for one of the top cricket clubs over there. It’s a distance of roughly...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Afghanistan completed a 3-0 one-day international series whitewash over hosts Zimbabwe after ace leg-spinner Rashid Khan starred for the Asian side in the four wicket win on Thursday. Man-of-the-match Khan picked 3-31 as Zimbabwe was bowled...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – A magnificent century from Sikandar Raza (pictured) wasn’t sufficient to get Zimbabwe to the 290 runs they needed for victory to avoid a whitewash by India in the final ODI of a three-match series at...

IT’S back, and promises to be fresher and more exciting! The CABS-sponsored St George’s College Smashing T20, one of the most entertaining schoolboy T20 tournaments in Africa, makes a welcome comeback following the pandemic-forced absence over the last couple of...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER WINDHOEK, Namibia – Zimbabwe’s women cricket team beat Namibia by seven wickets on Tuesday, completing a double over the hosts, to win a triangular series also involving East Africans Uganda. The Lady Chevrons bowled out Namibia for...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER BULAWAYO – Dumisani Mankunzini, the controversial former fringe cricketer, has been thrown out of Zanu-PF’s primary elections that took place on Saturday ahead of national polls expected in August. Mankunzini, who spent over three months in incarceration over...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE - A grief-stricken friend of deceased ex-cricketer Procter Saurombe (pictured), Alois Tichana, has revealed how his colleague might have met his fate on Monday morning at the family house’s gate in Glen Norah. 43-year-old Saurombe was found...

BY ENOCK MUCHINJO HARARE – Little voices in Brendan Taylor’s head whispered to him some four years ago that he had turned into an alcoholic, prone to the occasional abuse of drugs, and in need of professional help to overcome...

BULAWAYO – Tendai Chatara defended 14 runs off the final over as Zimbabwe beat Namibia by seven runs in the first T20I between the two countries. Chatara delivered a final over laced with yorkers and claimed the wicket of...

BY SPORTCAST WRITER BULAWAYO - Here is the Zimbabwean squad to contest the eight-team tournament in Bulawayo starting on Monday, 11 July. More to follow...