Sporting News

BY TINO MOMBESHORA   HARARE – I love a nice story, a fairytale, especially one of an emerging Zimbabwean sporting talent of extraordinary talents.   So when I first came across the excitement surrounding new Highlanders and Zimbabwe hot-shot Mongameli Tshuma, I was caught up in the euphoria.   I like to hear such kind of stuff.   It’s easy to like this rising attacking midfield maestro.   Mongameli Tshuma is a unique and charming local name. He’s a local lad, from Bulawayo, h

BY ENOCK MUCHINJO   HARARE – The Annual National Sports Awards (ANSA) is supposed to be the biggest celebration of Zimbabwe’s finest sports stars of the year, an occasion where excellence is feted and honoured.   This momentous awards ceremony, which dates back decades ago, has in the past carried enormous prestige as it recognised and rewarded only the best that the country offered across the different sporting disciplines.   It has however long lost its lustre, one of the c

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER   Some of the squad's younger players pose for a photo after the big win on Tuesday. HARARE – Zimbabwe rugby team assistant coach Ricky Chirengende says the tour to Louis Trichardt is giving uncapped younger players an opportunity to showcase what they can potentially bring to the Test side.   An entirely locally-based squad mixed with senior Sables stars and emerging players – playing as Zimbabwe ‘A’ – is on a two-match tour of the South African town as

BY SPORTSCAST WRITER   HARARE – Given his peerless all-round talent, Zimbabwe’s newest sporting hero Brian Bennett could well have been a prolific point-scorer in the green-and-white jersey of the Rugby World Cup-bound Sables.   The Southern African country’s T20 World Cup star is instead now a prolific run-scorer for the national cricket team, popularly known as the Chevrons.   Flyhalf, Bennett’s position in his rugby days, is the heartbeat of the team, the play-maker, the m