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In Australia, the term women's basketball was used to refer to both netball and basketball. [49] During the 1950s and 1960s, a movement arose to change the Australian name of the game from women's basketball to netball in order to avoid confusion between the two sports.
Netball World Cup Live - England vs Australia 16:53 , Ben Fleming And here is how Australia line up, with head coach Stacey Marinkovich naming an unchanged lineup from the semi-final against Jamaica.
The 2023 Constellation Cup was the 13th Constellation Cup series between Australia and New Zealand.It featured four netball test matches, played in October 2023. [1] [2] [3] The Australia team were coached by Stacey Marinkovich [4] [5] and captained by Liz Watson.
International competition was initially hindered by variations of rules in different countries. Australia and New Zealand contested the first international game of netball (still called "women's basketball" in both countries) in 1938, when the New Zealand team toured Australia, playing local and state teams as well as the Australian national team.
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The Netball World Cup is a quadrennial international netball world championship organised by World Netball, inaugurated in 1963.Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australia national netball team and the New Zealand national netball team, Trinidad and Tobago is the only other team to have won a title (a three-way tie in the 1979 championship).
Netball is one of ten core sports at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.It was netball's fifth appearance at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 1998.. The competition took place between Thursday 24 July and Sunday 3 August; with preliminary and classification matches hosted at the SECC and the medal matches in the neighbouring Hydro Arena.
The Africa Netball Cup, formerly known as the African Netball Championships, is an international netball competition held every two years organised by Africa Netball. The first edition of the tournament was held in 2010. [1] In 2023, the men's edition was introduced. [2]