Western Force great and ex-Australia Under-20 star Ian Prior joins Zimbabwe national team
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HARARE – Former Australia Under-20 half-back Ian Prior will join Zimbabwe on Saturday ahead of the Africa Cup later in July, on course to finally make his senior international rugby debut.
33-year-old Prior was born in Queensland, Australia,...
ZC finalises appointment of Zimbabwe coaching staff
HARARE – Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has finalised the appointment of new coaching staff for the Zimbabwe Senior Men’s National Team, in line with the recommendations made by the Mhishi Committee of Inquiry that was established to probe the team’s...
‘There is bound to be some of these hiccups’: Zim 7s on the back-foot...
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HARARE – Zimbabwe Sevens rugby coach Ricky Chirengende admits that a “tall order” faces his team at the ongoing Africa Cup in Mauritius as the Cheetahs target qualification to the World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series.
Zimbabwe lost 24-21...
‘He scored lots of goals because he was real, and that’s how he also...
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HARARE – Norman Maroto – the last player to reach the 20-goal mark in a season in Zimbabwe’s top-flight football league – achieved this scoring feat because he stayed true to himself, according to ex-teammate Leonard Fiyado.
Maroto...
‘We have X-factor across the field’: Confident Zim 7s coach targets World Rugby Challenger...
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HARARE - Ricky Chirengende, the Zimbabwe Sevens rugby team coach, believes the young side he is taking to next week’s Africa Cup in Mauritius is oozing with quality to go all the way in the tournament and...
Sammons to choose assistants, talks delay Zimbabwe squad selection for India’s visit
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HARARE - New Zimbabwe cricket coach Justin Sammons is free to choose the rest of his backroom staff, a process that has delayed the African team’s squad announcement for July’s tour by world giants India.
South African Sammons,...
Like England with Maro Itoje, Zimbabwe introduces it’s own ‘Nigerian’ engine-room
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HARARE - Some years back, a colleague once light-heatedly remarked how he couldn’t wait for Tochukwu Emwerem to make his debut for Zimbabwe in Test cricket, the venerated five-day format of the sport played then only by...
‘It was special having our mother’: Tennis mum travels to France from Zimbabwe to...
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HARARE - Benjamin and Courtney Lock won the doubles event of the Intertionaux de Tennis de Bois in France on Saturday, in front of their elated mother, becoming the first Zimbabwean pair to claim a title at...
‘We’re now able to identify who can cope’: Sables coach says squad will be...
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HARARE - TJ Maguranyanga, the France-based utility back, is one of foreign-based stars lined up to boost Zimbabwe’s rugby squad for July’s make-or-break Africa Cup tournament in Uganda.
The 21-year-old speedster, who plays for French Top 14 club...
Ambitious Sables up tempo as crucial Africa Cup looms
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HARARE - Zimbabwe’s rugby team steps up its preparations for next month’s important Africa Cup tournament in Uganda with a return friendly away to neighbours Zambia this afternoon, the Sables accompanied on that Lusaka trip by the...
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‘A Marvelous March’: Luton Town hails Nakamba as Zimbabwe star is...
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HARARE – Zimbabwe midfielder Marvelous Nakamba’s new lease of life at Championship side Luton Town has earned him the club’s Player-of-the-Month award...
