Sables search for new heroes

IN NORMAL circumstances, it will be seen as some kind of crisis for Zimbabwe that they will play today’s Victoria Cup match against Uganda without both their first-choice fly-half and the second.

New Sables captain and preferred number 10 Brandon Mandivenga is out for the rest of the season with a nagging ankle injury.

Then the promising 21-year-old Jerry Jaravaza, who is being groomed as the alternative in the playmaking role of the Sables, is also ruled out of tomorrow’s
game due to commitments elsewhere.

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