Cricket

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Aliakbar Hamid, who has scored a maiden first-class century for Zimbabwean team Matabeleland Tuskers, was EIGHT years old when his father collapsed and died while playing cricket at Old Hararians Sports Club 14 years ago. In...

BY ENOCK MUCHINJO HARARE – Sam Curran’s phenomenal performance to help England win the T20 World Cup is being cheered by family members back in Zimbabwe, the homeland of his father, and the glorious pace bowler’s place of upbringing.   England...

SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Former Zimbabwe national team cricket coach Steve Mangongo landed in India this week in charge of the Under-19 side of South Africa’s PowerPlay Sports Academy, a very exciting and thriving project he is a co-director of. The...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Growing up in Zimbabwe, sporty Stephen Nyamuzinga yearned for a Test cap for his country in the pinnacle format of world cricket. But he will now don a different kind of a cap after graduating with...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Romario Roach, a teenage star from the West Indies, flew out of London Monday night on his way to Zimbabwe to join the African country’s biggest domestic cricket team. The 18-year-old all-rounder – a handy batsman...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER BULAWAYO – Dumisani Mankunzini, the controversial former club cricketer, has been released from jail for “lack of evidence” after spending three months in prison on charges of fraud. He was let go on 31 January after a Bulawayo...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – As largely expected, with the forthcoming World Cup Qualifiers in mind, Zimbabwe has disguised its national team as a 'Select' side face touring Pakistan ‘A’ in four-one-dayers starting Wednesday. Pakistan ‘A’ known as Pakistan Shaheens, are...

BULAWAYO – The national associations of cricket and hockey in Zimbabwe have paid tribute to Porge Williams, who starred in both sporting codes, more so in the latter where he captained the national team and later coached it. He lost...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Zimbabwe has named its ‘A’ side to face touring Pakistan ‘A’ in a four-day match in Kwekwe starting on Wednesday. The squad sees the return of former Zimbabwe Under-19 captain Dion Myers, who is on a...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – The great former South Africa all-rounder Mike Procter, who went on to become his country’ first coach in the post-isolation era, died Saturday afternoon in Durban at the age of 77 following a cardiac arrest...