Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Tavengwa Mukuhlani has been appointed deputy chairperson of the International Cricket Council, becoming the first Zimbabwean to hold the position.

The ICC announced the appointment on Thursday, saying Mukuhlani would serve through November 2027. He takes over from Imran Khwaja, who is leaving the role.

Mukuhlani has chaired Zimbabwe Cricket since 2015 and represents the country on the ICC Board. He sits on the ICC’s Finance and Commercial Affairs and Nominations Committees, and chairs its Human Resources and Remuneration Committee.

The appointment lands at a significant moment for the Zimbabwean game. The country is due to co-host the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup in 2027 alongside South Africa and Namibia, bringing the tournament back to Africa for the first time in 24 years.

ICC chairman Jay Shah said Mukuhlani’s “experience in cricket administration, understanding of the global game and commitment to its development will be invaluable to the ICC Board”, adding that he had “earned the confidence of his fellow Directors”.

Shah described the appointment as “a significant milestone for Zimbabwe”.

Mukuhlani said he was “deeply honoured by the confidence placed in me by my fellow ICC Board Directors” and pointed to a period of expansion for the sport.

“Cricket is entering an exciting period, particularly with its return to the Olympic Games and continued global expansion,” he said.

NewsDay reported that Mukuhlani also chairs the Africa Cricket Association.

The appointment places a Zimbabwean at the second-highest level of world cricket’s governing body at a time when the country is preparing to stage matches at the sport’s flagship 50-over tournament, and when African cricket is pushing for a larger share of the global game.

Sources: International Cricket Council, NewsDay Zimbabwe, NewZimbabwe.com, The Tribune.

Zimbabwe’s Chevrons lost the Namibia T20 international tri-series final to South Africa by 48 runs in Windhoek on Sunday, undone by a batting collapse in a chase of 206.

South Africa won the toss, chose to bat and posted 205 for five from their 20 overs. Jordan Hermann top-scored with a personal-best 53 from 29 balls.

Zimbabwe were bowled out for 157 inside 18 overs. Brad Evans offered the most resistance with 57 from 31 balls, but wickets fell steadily around him and the required rate moved beyond reach. Zimbabwe lost their last wicket with two overs still unbowled.

The margin tells the story plainly enough: South Africa scored 48 more runs and had five wickets in hand at the close of their innings, while Zimbabwe could not bat out their allocation. CricTracker described the result as the first trophy of the Proteas’ season.

Namibia hosted the tournament and made up the third team. Reaching the final is a creditable return for a Zimbabwe side that has spent much of the year rebuilding, but the final itself followed a pattern the coaching staff will recognise — a competitive total conceded, then a top order that could not build partnerships against a disciplined attack.

Evans’ innings was the exception. Coming in with the chase already under pressure, he scored at better than a run a ball and briefly kept Zimbabwe in touch, before the innings folded around him.

Sources: ESPNcricinfo match report and full scorecard, South Africa v Zimbabwe, final, Windhoek, 6 September 2026; CricTracker.

Zimbabwe’s Makanakaishe Charamba finished third in the men’s 200m at the Wanda Diamond League final in Brussels on Saturday night, clocking 19.99 seconds in a race that left Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo off the podium.

American Kenny Bednarek won in 19.62, equalling his own world-leading time for the year, with South Africa’s Sinesipho Dambile second in 19.89, according to NewZimbabwe.com and South Africa’s TimesLIVE. Tebogo, of Botswana, was fourth in 20.01. Tebogo had come into the final with a season’s best of 19.84, well short of his personal best of 19.46, World Athletics noted in its preview.

It was Charamba’s second Diamond League podium in a fortnight. At the Athletissima meeting in Lausanne on 21 August he was also third, in 20.14, behind Tebogo and Dambile, according to results published by Olympics.com and LetsRun.

The Auburn University sprinter reached the Olympic 200m final in Paris in 2024, finishing eighth, and carried Zimbabwe’s flag at the opening ceremony, according to Auburn’s athletics website and the NCAA.

Saturday’s meeting at the King Baudouin Stadium brought the Diamond League season to a close. In its preview, World Athletics said Bednarek led the 2026 rankings with 19.62 and named Dambile and Charamba among the main threats to Tebogo, who had already secured his place at the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championships as Olympic champion. That event, with US$10 million in prize money, takes place in Budapest next weekend, according to World Athletics and TimesLIVE.

Sources: NewZimbabwe.com, TimesLIVE, World Athletics, Olympics.com, LetsRun, Auburn Tigers, 3-mob.com.