Rugby

BY CHRIS TAVONESA The Rugby World Cup is currently underway. The superpowers find themselves in unfamiliar position – they have all lost thus far in the pool stage of the tournament. New Zealand, the perennial favourites to win every Rugby World...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Zimbabwe Women Sevens rugby team coach Cyprian Mandenge has picked a provisional squad of 15 ahead of Africa's Olympic Games qualifiers in Tunisia mid-October. The traveling side will be trimmed to 12 next weekend, following a...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Zimbabwe’s women rugby players, like their football counterparts before, have a deep desire to go to the Olympics. The hard-working Zimbabwean ladies will be in Tunisia in October for the African championship, which also serves as...

The Springbok Sevens suffered a heart-breaking 17-12 defeat to Kenya in the final of the Rugby Africa Olympic Games 2024 qualifying tournament in Harare on Sunday and in the process, missed a second opportunity to qualify for next year's...

BY CHRIS TAVONESA HARARE – Brandon Mudzekenyedzi, the New Zealand-based livewire, is back in Zimbabwean colours after he was last year controversially omitted from the African country’s squad for qualifiers of the ongoing World Cup finals in France. The 26-year-old Mudzekenyedzi,...

BY JOHN KELLEY IN ENGLAND Weeks ahead of the date that the World Cup rugby tournament kicks off, Wales and England clashed at Cardiff on Saturday for the first of what will probably be many unofficial trials. It revealed a...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER                   HARARE – World Rugby Hall of Famer Kennedy Tsimba will reportedly be going back to the last top team he played for in his illustrious career in South Africa, as skills coach of United Rugby Championship side...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Rampant Zimbabwe were at their flamboyant best to thump rivals Kenya 64-10 in the World Rugby Under-20 Trophy fifth-place play off in Nairobi on Sunday with an entertaining brand of rugby, in typical style, to...

BY ENOCK MUCHINJO HARARE – Zimbabwe head coach Shaun De Souza will shuffle his key players across crucial positions to avoid their threat being counteracted by Kenya when the two rivals clash in the fifth-place play-off on the final day...

Zimbabwe beat the United States of America 38-37 on Tuesday in the World Rugby Under-20 Trophy, to finish the group stage on a high following defeats to the Scotland and Uruguay. The Junior Sables now face hosts Kenya in...