SA ready for champions in Netball World Cup

Australia were at their ruthless best against a gallant South Africa at the Netball World Cup in Sydney, outclassing the Proteas 66-31 to secure a top-two finish in Pool F – and a place in the semi-finals.

Already twice a world champion to the tune of 2007 and 2011 title victories with the Diamonds, she’s hoping to take a hat-trick in front of a home crowd before retiring at the end of the tournament.

But the Malawi Queens continued to frustrate the Ferns and, spurred on by the crowd, won the third quarter, trailing the Ferns by just three going into the final term. They have to beat England to qualify for the semifinals.

Tracey has defended her decision to stay with the team.

England managed to get all 12 players on the court, even the ones who don’t play in the ANZ Championship, which is frankly rubbing it in a bit.

In the third quarter Malawi narrowed the gap to three by trailing 39-42.

“That’s why we put everybody out there, so they can get a taste of it”.

After the first basket, Malawi Queen settled their nerves and were able to player their usual games of silky passes and good combination of Sindi Simutowe, Bridget Kumwenda and Mwai.

Malawi has shooting accuracy of 89 percent while New Zealand had 86 percent.

That Wales against some of the world’s leading nations and Wilcox says her team are enjoying the opportunity to come up against full-time professionals.

“I was in fact to just look for a minute of a new trigger and several extended taking pictures, to apply those particular negatively in a make your an opposing defender a little more sensible in being released Caitlin (Bassett)”, Alexander said.

The fourth quarter seemed completely freakish at first glance – the Diamonds went from playing strong, controlled netball to playing like the Mainland Tactix in the blink of an eye.

However, it soon became clear that Layton had spent three-quarter time paying off all her teammates to throw as much ball away as possible to allow her to take a whole bunch of rebounds and intercepts. “That’s not been the mentality of me or my family throughout our careers”.