BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – At cricket grounds around her hometown Harare, Panashe Magadu not only is a familiar face, but a pretty one. Panashe is a cricket lover and she’s is lucky that she gets to work for the game...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – South African Ryan Maron, who has been fielding coach for West Indies and Afghanistan’s national teams, doesn’t consider his new and brief role on the club cricket scene in Zimbabwe as less important. 49-year-old Maron was...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Zimbabwean football poster-boy Khama Billiat has immediately been recalled to the national team just hours after announcing on Wednesday that he had come out of international retirement. The 34-year-old skilful playmaker, who quit international football at...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Zimbabwe has named its squad for two opening Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Kenya and Cameroon in Uganda early September, with Sharif Mussa returning as team manager after a lengthy absence. Mussa, son of the...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – New Zimbabwe football coach Michael Nees says previous encounters with Zimbabwean opposition motivated him to apply for the Warriors job “I had some experience with Zimbabwe as an opponent,” Nees told reporters at his unveiling on...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Gayton McKenzie, South Africa’s new Minister of Sports, can foster greater ties between Africa’s most successful sporting nation and the rest of the continent, Rugby Africa president Herbert Mensah has said. Mensah commented that McKenzie –...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER BULAWAYO – Zimbabwe Emerging coach Stephen Mangongo was a relieved man on Saturday after his side snatched a three-run victory to avoid a series whitewash against a very young South African side at Queens Sports Club. Mangongo felt...

BY ENOCK MUCHINJO HARARE – Australian coach John Buchanan – who guided his country to two straight World Cup titles in 2003 and 2007 – reckons Zimbabwe’s spectacular fall from being a dangerous underdog of global cricket to no-hopers is...

BY ENOCK MUCHINJO HARARE – Collen Tafireyi’s early forays into South Africa in pursuit of fortune didn’t initially yield super-expensive bulls, or big bucks, but exclusive football stories. He didn’t use to fly business class as he does now. Those days...

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER HARARE – Wonder why Zimbabwe’s rugby team looked remarkably well-conditioned at the recent Rugby Africa Cup, where the Sables were crowned the continent’s champions after capping off a stellar tournament in Uganda? Well, it was not due to...