Finally, the 2023 Netball World Cup started after many months of preparations and planning. ECRSport Netball NWC
South Africa started their 2023 Netball World Cup campaign by facing Wales, a team that they have faced twenty times overall and four times at a Netball World Cup.
It was South Africa who drew first blood as soon as the whistle went off, the backing of the home crowd looked like the boost that SPAR Proteas needed. The defensive duo of Karla Pretorius and Phumza Maweni worked wonders the team just as much as the attacking pairing of Ine – Mari Venter and Elmere van der Berg.
Wales were not deterred by the noise and support for the South African team, and they punched above their weight and won the quarter 15 – 14, and SPAR Proteas went into the half time break leading 32 -24. Coach Plummer made two changes putting on Nichole Taljaard in the place of van der Berg and Jeante Strydom earned her first South African cap replacing van der Merwe.
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