Silver Ferns To Play Australia in Pool Play at Netball World Cup

The Silver Ferns will face current world champions Australia in pool play at the Netball World Cup in Sydney in August 2015.

Tournament organisers have announced nations’ preliminary round pools and competition rest days ahead of the sport’s pinnacle event. The World Cup is comprised on 16 nations with the pool allocations representing nations’ International Netball Federation (INF) rankings as of July this year.

The pool allocations reflect the re-vamped competition format, announced in November 2013, which will see the top six Netballing nations; Australia, New Zealand, England, Jamaica, Malawi and South Africa meeting earlier in the competition – playing matches in the preliminary rounds.  

The Silver Ferns will play Australia, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago in Pool A, while third ranked England will face Jamaica, Scotland and Samoa in Pool B, Pool C consists of Malawi, South Africa, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Pool D rounds out with Fiji, Wales, Uganda and Zambia.

Sri Lanka and Uganda have crossed pools to comply with the INF regulation that no more than two teams from any one region may be allocated to any given pool. In this instance Pool C would have included Malawi, South Africa and Uganda; three teams representing the African region.

The ten-day Netball World Cup will also feature some other mouth-watering clashes in the early matches with third ranked England to play the Jamaica Sunshine Girls and the Malawi Queens facing South Africa.

The Silver Ferns will have rest days on Day 4 and Day 7 of the tournament.

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