BULAWAYO - The first-ever Twenty20 at the Queens Sports Club ground in Bulawayo was a thriller with the home team squeezing home by six runs. Zimbabwe fought back mightily when it mattered and Bangladesh imploded just when they could smell the win. The visitors collapsed from 120 for 1 in the 15th ...

BULAWAYO - Vusi Sibanda brought up his second ODI hundred by hitting the winning runs that secured Zimbabwe a rare series victory, against Bangladesh in Bulawayo. Zimbabwe's seven-wicket success broke the deadlock between the sides and gave the hosts the series 2-1.Zimbabwe's bowlers laid the ...

BULAWAYOZimbabwe and Bangladesh go into Wednesday's third and final one-day international in Bulawayo locked at one match apiece, yet it is the hosts who know they will need to improve their game if they are to claim a rare series victory.After being humiliated by 121 runs in the first match last ...

BULAWAYOAs it had been before the Test series, Bangladesh are slightly ahead of Zimbabwe leading up to the ODI series in terms of form, recent results and experience. But the 1-1 scoreline after nine absorbing days in Harare means the "favourites on paper" theory is not applicable to these two ...

HARAREA blazing innings of 45 from Elton Chigumbura rescued Zimbabwe as they closed on 158 for four on day two of the second and final Test against Bangladesh at Harare Sports Club on Friday.Chigumbura, who was the star with the ball in the Bangladesh first innings, put on an unbeaten 61-run stand ...

HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe has finally hired a hangman after seven years of searching, but he has not yet executed any of the 76 people on death row, a top prisons official has said.  "Indeed, we now have a hangman," Prison Service Commissioner Paradzai Zimondi was quoted as saying in Saturday's ...

Bangladesh won their five-match one-day international cricket series against fellow minnows Zimbabwe in style after beating the visitors by six wickets in the fourth match here on Tuesday. The visitors were shot out to one-day international cricket's fifth lowest total, setting the hosts an easy ...

Human Rights Watch on Thursday called on the 53-nation African Union (AU) to suspend Zimbabwe if President Robert Mugabe's government does not meet benchmarks for human rights and governance. The international rights body wants the AU, which meets in Ethiopia next week, to step into regional ...

Zimbabwe will prosecute 140 white landowners on charges of failing to vacate their farms under the country's controversial 2000 land reform programme, state media reported Sunday. "A total of 140 farmers are to be prosecuted for failing to vacate farms after being issued with eviction notices," The ...

The Zimbabwean authorities have ignored a high court order to release a leading human rights activist and several opposition members to hospital, their lawyer said Thursday. "The long and short of it is that the police haven't complied with the high court order," lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa told a ...

Cholera has killed 473 people in Zimbabwe in the latest outbreak of the disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) office in Harare said in a report, a copy of which was received Tuesday. "A large cholera outbreak is affecting most regions of the country, with more than 11,700 cases and 473 ...

Strife-torn Zimbabwe will remain a full member of the International Cricket Council, officials said on Friday, after the deeply-divided world body worked out a last-minute compromise."The full membership of Zimbabwe is currently not in doubt," incoming ICC president David Morgan of ...

Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai branded Friday's one-man election as a "shameful humiliation" and said a result giving victory to President Robert Mugabe would be meaningless. "Today is not an election. Today is a shameful humiliation, another tragic day in our ...

Zimbabwe's leader Robert Mugabe said he was open to negotiations but vowed to press on with a presidential run-off vote marred by deadly violence, as his rival called Wednesday for international military force. "Other people can say what they want, but the elections are ours and we are a ...

The number-two figure in Zimbabwe's opposition was Friday facing a treason charge after his arrest within minutes of arriving back home to campaign in the June 27 presidential run-off election. Police also detained Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai twice Thursday in ...

A runoff election between Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will be held June 27, country's electoral commission said Saturday. The commission had extended the deadline for holding the runoff to 90 days, beyond the legally required 21 days.  The ...

The White House has called for election and UN human rights monitors in Zimbabwe to ensure an end to violence against opposition leaders and their supporters in a presidential run-off. Talking to reporters at Crawford, The White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Zimbabwean opposition leaders and ...