{"id":7023,"date":"2023-08-07T05:52:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T17:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7023"},"modified":"2023-08-07T06:04:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:04:49","slug":"australia-win-netball-world-cup-for-12th-time-after-dominant-win-over-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7023","title":{"rendered":"Australia win Netball World Cup for 12th time after dominant win over England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1dpfw7k\">Australia are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/netball\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Netball<\/a>\u00a0World Cup champions for a 12th time after getting the better of England to win the final 61-45 in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1dpfw7k\">England had to weather an early storm with Australia determined to make up for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2023\/aug\/03\/england-win-thriller-against-world-no-1-australia-netball-world-cup\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">their defeat three days earlier<\/a>. The Diamonds led for most of the first quarter and enjoyed a three-point lead at some stages of a frenetic opening.<\/p>\n<div id=\"sign-in-gate\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1dpfw7k\">But England gradually found their rhythm and Fran Williams\u2019 arrival put Australia on the back foot. Housby levelled the scores at 13-13 just as the buzzer sounded to end the first quarter.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"81c5593e-ba3c-4a78-9b8b-9e40c1a46454\" class=\" dcr-173mewl\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.GuideAtomBlockElement\">\n<div class=\"dcr-13gln72\" data-atom-id=\"eab35d41-dbe9-4aec-9209-ae22c3b80688\" data-atom-type=\"guide\">\n<details class=\"dcr-guknir\" data-atom-id=\"eab35d41-dbe9-4aec-9209-ae22c3b80688\" data-snippet-type=\"guide\">\n<summary>The second quarter was another close affair with Australia fast out of the blocks again. A couple of turnovers went against England and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/australia-netball-team--diamonds-\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Diamonds<\/a>\u00a0sent on shooter Sophie Garbin for Cara Koenen to good effect.<\/summary>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1dpfw7k\">England were guilty of being static in attack and Australia stretched their advantage to five points. But Eleanor<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Cardwell scored right on the buzzer as England reached the halfway stage 27-23 behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1dpfw7k\">Australia knew a dominant third quarter would put them in command and England were unable to change the course of the contest. Cardwell scored a brilliant goal while off balance, but Australia were clinical as opportunities presented themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1dpfw7k\">England headed into the final 15 minutes 46-36 adrift and in desperate need of inspiration to turn things around, and the Diamonds \u2013 winners in 2007, 2011 and 2015 \u2013 held firm to see out their victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia are Netball\u00a0World Cup champions for a 12th time after getting the better of England to win the final 61-45 in Cape Town. England had to weather an early storm with Australia determined to make up for\u00a0their defeat three days earlier. The Diamonds led for most of the first quarter and enjoyed a three-point lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7027,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions\/7027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}