PDV explodes

SABLES coach Peter de Villiers has lashed out at former Springboks winger Tonderai Chavhanga after his recent criticism of the national team’s failure to qualify for next year’s Rugby World Cup in Japan, which the former player blamed on the coach.

The 34-year-old Masvingo-born former South Africa national team star winger — the fastest rugby player in the world at the peak of his career — poured out his heart on Zimbabwe’s disastrous World Cup qualification campaign, calling on the Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) to fire De Villiers.

Chavhanga, who has been a pundit for the online South African rugby news site, Rugby365, thinks De Villiers, who signed a two-year contract with ZRU in February with the goal of leading the Sables to the Rugby World Cup, had failed after presiding over a disastrous campaign in which the Sables narrowly missed relegation from Africa’s top tier group.

This story is for NewsDay subscribers.