{"id":6832,"date":"2023-07-28T07:08:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T19:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6832"},"modified":"2023-07-28T07:10:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T19:10:20","slug":"the-ultimate-team-sport-a-guide-to-the-netball-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6832","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate team sport: A guide to the Netball World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all the fuss about the football, did you know there’s a Netball World Cup about to get underway in South Africa and New Zealand are the defending champs?<\/p>\n

If not, here’s some information to help get you on board with what should be a wild ride in Cape Town.<\/p>\n

Why are we so obsessed with beating Australia?<\/h3>\n

You would be too if your big brother or big sister kept beating you in the most painful of ways over and over again by the slimmest of margins.<\/p>\n

Since the Netball World Cup first started in 1963, Australia has dominated the four yearly event, winning 11 titles.<\/p>\n

New Zealand has won five, including in 1979 when we were joint champions with Australia and Trinidad and Tobago when it was still a round robin format.<\/p>\n

The third time we won it was in 1987 in Glasgow. It would then take another 16 years before we wrestled it off Australia again.<\/p>\n

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\"Captain<\/p>\n

The Australian Diamonds have a very positive win-loss ratio over the Silver Ferns.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0Photosport<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In 1991 after leading each quarter, Australia pipped the Silver Ferns by one goal in the dying seconds of the gold medal match.<\/p>\n

Four years later in Birmingham, South Africa shocked the Silver Ferns in pool play, which meant we had to beat Australia to get to the final.<\/p>\n

But Australia beat us by one goal to deny us the opportunity and we got our worse finish at a World Cup, with bronze.<\/p>\n

Redemption was meant to come in 1999 in Christchurch and the Silver Ferns looked like they had sealed it when they were up by six goals going into the final quarter. But the Australians somehow managed to pip us by one goal in the dying seconds.<\/p>\n

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\"Australian<\/p>\n

The Silver Ferns finally wrestled the World Cup off the Diamonds in 2019.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a9 SWpix.com (t\/a Photography Hub Ltd)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When the Silver Ferns finally got the better of Australia in Jamaica in 2003, few would have thought it would take another 16 years before New Zealand would lift the trophy again.<\/p>\n

But the Silver Ferns would be the bridesmaids to their trans-Tasman rivals once again in 2007, 2011, and 2015.<\/p>\n

The 2011 edition was particularly heartbreaking as the game went to extra time and you guessed it, the Aussies beat us by one miserly goal.<\/p>\n

So it was like Christmas for New Zealand netball fans when the Silver Ferns beat Australia by one goal to lift the trophy in 2019.<\/p>\n

If the Silver Ferns can win gold in South Africa it would be the first time they have managed to defend the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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