Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies Football Team and Banyana Banyana goalkeeper Andile Dlamini capped off a brilliant 2022 season after winning the SA Sports Star of the year award at the 16th annual SA Sports Awards on Saturday night at Sun City.

Dlamini was nominated alongside swimming sensation Mathew Sates and golf star Ashleigh Buhai for the big award as the 30-year-old won her third major accolade for 2022.

Upon receiving the award 'Sticks' as she is affectionately called by her teammates and fans alike was very emotional and full of gratitude to her family, friends and teammates alike.

"Firstly I would like to thank the Almighty God and my parents for raising me, I would like to thank everyone that supported Andile Dlamini and her craft this is also for you. Being on stage tonight and collecting such a big award has always been a dream and I am humbled that tonight my dream has manifested into reality," Dlamini said.

Dlamini joins the likes of Tatjana Schoenmaker, Caster Semenya and Luvo Manyonga to clinch what is undoubtedly the award of the night at the SA Sports Awards.

Other notable winners were Themba Zwane, Lara Van Niekerk and Hloni Mtimkulu who walked home with the People's Choice Award, Sportswoman of the year award and the journalist of the year accolade respectively.

Rocco Meiring won the coach of the year award while teenage swimmer Pieter Coetzee won the Sportsman of the year award and the Springboks Sevens won the Team of the year accolade.

SA Sports Award winners:

Sports Administrator of the year: Portia Dimu

Sportsman of the year with a disability: Jonathan Ntutu

Newcomer of the year: Simnikiwe Bongco

Sportsman of the year: Pieter Coetzee

Sportswoman of the year: Lara van Niekerk

Sportswoman of the year with a disability: Minkie Janse van Rensburg

Team of the year: Rugby Sevens - Men

Developing school of the year: Helen Frans Special School Wheelchair Tennis 

School team of the year: St Benedicts Rowing

Recreation body of the year: Waves for Change

National Federation of the year: Cricket South Africa

Indigenous games team of the year: Limpopo Ncuva — Male team

Volunteer of the year: Zizo Popu — Eastern Cape

Coach of the year: Rocco Meiring — Swimming

Sports Star of the year: Andile Dlamini

Liberia came from two goals down to take a point away from home against Bafana Bafana at the Orlando Stadium on Friday night as the two sides played out to a 2-2 draw in an entertaining AFCON qualifier.

In a match where Bafana Bafana dominated the first half, Lyle Foster opened the scoring after 11 minutes to give Bafana the lead before the Burnley striker scored his and Bafana's second goal with a brilliant header from Teboho Mokoena's corner kick as the sides went to halftime with Bafana leading 2-0.

Bafana would have themselves to blame as in the opening 15 minutes of the second half, Hugo Broos' charges had a plethora of goalscoring chances, but were either not clinical in their passing or shooting apart from Tau's free-kick which was supposed to be an indirect free-kick.

Liberia made some changes that influenced the game and that's when they managed to pull one back through Tonia Tisdell's free kick in the 68th minute.

Mohammed Sangare who was another substitute for Liberia stunned Bafana in the 90th minute to send the crowd into deafening silence as the West African side head to the reverse fixture with a valuable point.

The two teams will meet again in Monrovia on Tuesday for what is expected to be a thrilling clash as whoever wins secures their tickets to the Afcon tournament in Ivory Coast next year.

Newly appointed France captain Kylian Mbappe led his side to a convincing 4-0 victory against the Netherlands in group B of the EURO 2024 qualifier.

Mbappe, named skipper after goalkeeper Hugo Lloris ended his international career in January, set up Antoine Griezmann for the opener before scoring the third, after Dayot Upamecano had doubled the tally in a first-half blitz, before wrapping the scoring up late in front of an ecstatic crowd.

The result was a slap in the face for Ronald Koeman in charge of his first match since he took over from Louis van Gaal, after the Oranje reached the World Cup quarterfinals in Qatar, for his second stint after a first spell from 2018-2020.

Elsewhere, England defeated Ukraine 2-0 at Wembley in a Group C encounter of the 2024 UEFA EURO qualifiers as Harry Kane and Bukayo Saka continued with their exceptional form in front of the goal.

Kane broke the deadlock in the 37th minute of the encounter before Saka scored 3 minutes later as England held on for another comfortable victory after beating Italy 2-1 on Thursday.

The victory means that England is currently occupying the first spot in Group C of the EURO qualifiers having played two matches and winning two.

Finally, on Sunday night Cristiano Ronaldo scored a braced as Portugal thrashed Luxembourg 6-0 in group J of the EURO 2024 qualifier at the Luxembourg Stadium to make it two wins from two matches in as many games.

Ronaldo broke the deadlock in the 9th minute before Joao Felix and Bernardo Silva scored in a space of three minutes to put Portugal 3-0 up in the opening 20 minutes.

Ronaldo was at it again when he scored his brace in the 31st minute of the encounter as the visitors went to halftime leading 4-0.

With the two teams heading into the second half with Portugal still showing some aggression in front of goal, substitute Otavio and Rafael Leao scored the fifth and sixth goal late in the second half to conclude another stellar performance from Roberto Martinez's charges.

The victory means that Portugal has now won two consecutive matches without conceding a goal to make sure Martinez's tenure starts on a positive note.

The Proteas defeated West Indies by 6 wickets with 7 balls left in the second T20 match at SuperSport Sports Park to level the three matches T20 series 1-1.

Opening batsman Quinton de Kock smashed 100 runs from 44 balls as the Proteas made history by chasing down the highest score in the history of T20 cricket.

De Kock alongside Reeza Hendricks guided the Proteas to a 152 runs-opening partnership before Rilee Rossouw, David Miller, Aiden Markram, and Heinrich Klaasen made sure their contributions take the Proteas over the line at a packed SuperSport Park.

Earlier on, West Indies batsman Johnson Charles took the Proteas bowlers to the cleaners, striking the sixth-fastest ton in T20Is.

The right-hander silenced the SuperSport Park crowd, finding the boundary on 22 occasions hitting 10 fours and 11 sixes on his way to 118 off 46 deliveries as the Windies recorded 258/5, their highest team total in a T20 match setting the Proteas a total of 259 for victory.

The successful run chase means that the Proteas now hold the T20 and ODI world records after their famous 438/9 chasing Australia's 434/4 at the Wanderers in 2006 in the 50-over format.

The third and final T20 match is on Tuesday at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg.

The Pumas defeated the Griquas 28-13 in round three of the Currie Cup at the Mbombela Stadium to move up to the second spot on the table while the Natal Sharks thrashed the Western Province 20-7 at the Kings Park Stadium.

It was a scrappy match of few chances, but the Sharks made the most of theirs to pick up their second win in three games, while Province fell to a first defeat after winning their opening two matches comfortably.

After round three of the Currie Cup that also saw the Free State Cheetahs defeat the Blue Bulls 32-7, the side from Free State is sitting comfortably at the summit of the table while the Griffons are still rooted at the bottom of the table with 0 points.