Peter Ndlovu to receive top honours

Former Coventry City and Sheffield United striker Peter Ndlovu is to be inducted into the Zimbabwe Sports Hall of Fame for his outstanding contribution as Warriors captain and for raising the Zimbabwean flag high in the competitive English Premiership.

Ndlovu is the only captain to have taken the Warriors to the Africa Cup of Nations finals in 2004 and 2006 and became the first black Zimbabwean footballer to play in the highly competitive English Premiership after joining Coventry City in 1992.

Although the Sports and Recreation Commission's business director Daniel Kuwengwa, who is handling the Hall of Fame issue, refused to release the names identified for the second induction, he confirmed that 10 past outstanding sportspersons would be engraved into the Hall of Fame.

Ndlovu is to be honoured alongside the likes of former world number one golfer Nick Price, the tennis pair of Byron and Wayne Black, the late rugby ace Richard Tsimba, as well as former Chevrons captain Andy Flower.

The Zimbabwe Sports Hall of Fame is situated at the National Gallery and a number of former stars including footballer George Shaya, shooter Dave Westerhout, athlete Artwell Mandaza, boxer Langton "Schoolboy" Tinago and the Golden Hockey girls of 1980 were the first inductees in 2005.