Malawi National Netball Team, the Queens, have\u2014due to inactivity\u2014unsurprisingly stagnated on the latest world ranking, a revised ranking table indicates.<\/p>\n
The Queens, who lost their world\u2019s fifth position last year to rivals South Africa, remain sixth in the world out of 34 teams and second from a list of seven ranked teams in Africa.<\/p>\n
Malawi, whose coach Peace Chawinga Kalua\u2019s contract expired in May, last played competitively at a World Cup in New Zealand last November. Netball Association of Malawi attributes the inactivity to lack of funds.<\/p>\n
Spar Proteas of South Africa are the continent\u2019s number one team, International Netball Federation (INF) website indicates.<\/p>\n
INF has updated its rankings to reflect matches played during Netball Europe in May and a test match between Wales and South Africa in June. The rankings are revised every January 1 and July 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing this activity, there is no change to the ranking for the top- ten teams. However, Australia now stretch their lead at the top of the rankings to 20 points,\u201d reads www.inf.org.<\/p>\n
\u201cFurther down the rankings, Uganda swaps places with Barbados, going to 11 from 13. This is a significant move, as the qualification for Commonwealth Games Gold Coast 2018 will be decided next year, with only the top-12 ranked teams qualifying for entry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also swapping places are Zambia (now 16) and Singapore (17). However, the biggest movement in the rankings is St Lucia, moving down six places from 18 to 24.\u201d<\/p>\n
Three countries\u2013Bermuda, Namibia and Thailand – have lost their ranking, having not played eight matches in the past three years.<\/p>\n
A further three\u2013Maldives, Pakistan and Tanzania\u2013have lost their rating through not having played any matches at all during the past three years.<\/p>\n
Ranking table <\/strong><\/p>\n 1 Australia<\/p>\n 2 New Zealand<\/p>\n 3 England<\/p>\n 4 Jamaica<\/p>\n 5 South Africa<\/p>\n 6 Malawi<\/p>\n 7 Fiji<\/p>\n 8 Wales<\/p>\n 9 Trinidad & Tobago<\/p>\n 10 Scotland<\/p>\n 11 Uganda<\/p>\n 12 Northern Ireland<\/p>\n 13 Barbados<\/p>\n 14 Samoa<\/p>\n 15 Papua New Guinea<\/p>\n 16 Zambia<\/p>\n 17 Singapore<\/p>\n 18 Canada<\/p>\n 19 Botswana<\/p>\n 20 Zimbabwe<\/p>\n 21 Grenada<\/p>\n 22 Malaysia<\/p>\n 23 Cook Islands<\/p>\n 24 St Lucia<\/p>\n 25 Ireland<\/p>\n 26 Hong Kong<\/p>\n 27 Sri Lanka<\/p>\n 28 USA<\/p>\n 29 Swaziland<\/p>\n 30 Gibraltar<\/p>\n 31 Malta<\/p>\n 32 Switzerland<\/p>\n 33 Chinese Taipei<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malawi National Netball Team, the Queens, have\u2014due to inactivity\u2014unsurprisingly stagnated on the latest world ranking, a revised ranking table indicates. The Queens, who lost their world\u2019s fifth position last year to rivals South Africa, remain sixth in the world out of 34 teams and second from a list of seven ranked teams in Africa. Malawi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27979,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27973\/revisions\/27979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}