Bondo, Makwala snubbed

The cricket team will also feel hard done by after winning back-to-back titles towards the end of the year. The nominees were released on Tuesday but Bondo and Makwala’s names were missing.

Bondo has received just about each and every continental assignment and is in line to handle his second Africa Cup of Nations finals in June. Makwala bagged two gold medals at last year’s Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.  Makwala won his first major championship gold medal with a well-run 44.35 in the men’s 400m final. He was also instrumental in assisting the men’s 4x400m relay team to a gold and season’s best of 3:01.78.