Malawi Netball Queens are stuck on position six in the world following recent rankings which the International Netball Federation (INF) released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to INF\u2019s website, www.netball.org, <\/em>top-10 teams in the world have maintained their positions.<\/p>\n Australia continue to rule the netball world with New Zealand maintaining their second slot whereas England lie third.<\/p>\n Jamaica have also kept their fourth position.<\/p>\n The Queens\u2019 rivals, South Africa, are the top ranked team in Africa having maintained their fifth-place in the world.<\/p>\n The ranking took into account matches played up to December 11 2016.<\/p>\n The ranking list relates to senior teams of member countries that are playing regular international test matches.<\/p>\n Netball Association of Malawi (Nam) General Secretary, Carol Bapu, said there was need for a policy and effort to keep the Queens active if they are to break into position top-four.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we can be playing test matches I am sure that we can break into the top-three. During the Fast5 Netball World Series, the team showcased its potential that it can be in the top-five. All we need is support from all stakeholders to make sure that the team is active throughout to gain more points,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Malawi won bronze at the Fast5 Netball World Series but the competition is not factored in the rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malawi Netball Queens are stuck on position six in the world following recent rankings which the International Netball Federation (INF) released on Tuesday. According to INF\u2019s website, www.netball.org, top-10 teams in the world have maintained their positions. Australia continue to rule the netball world with New Zealand maintaining their second slot whereas England lie third. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39302","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\/39302","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=39302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39306,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39302\/revisions\/39306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}