{"id":55562,"date":"2017-10-27T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T08:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=55562"},"modified":"2017-10-27T10:07:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T08:07:10","slug":"malawi-queens-shortest-at-fast5-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/malawi-queens-shortest-at-fast5-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Queens shortest at Fast5 Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

M<\/strong>alawi national netball team go into this weekend\u2019s Fast5 Netball World Series in Melbourne, Australia, as the most experienced of the six competing teams.<\/p>\n

According to a report on fast5worldseries.com, <\/em>the Queens have four players who featured in three series, with only one debutant.<\/p>\n

The report stated that Malawi would need all this experience as superstar Mwawi Kumwenda is not part of the squad.<\/p>\n

The Queens are also the only side without a player over six foot (1.82 metres) as Joyce Mvula is their tallest at five foot 11 inches (1.8 metres).<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the flipside, they have the four shortest players at five foot two inches (1.57 metres). What they lose in height, the determination and will to win is always evident [sic]. Two of their pocket rockets are Takondwa Lwazi and Thandie Galeta whose experience will be vital to Malawi\u2019s success.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, they shared the centre role with Lwazi doing 71 circle feeds, which was the tournament\u2019s most, and Galeta having 48. Lwazi and Galeta were one-two for goals assists with 21 and 18, respectively,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n

Defending champions New Zealand go into the tournament with the most inexperienced team.<\/p>\n

Kayla Cullen is the only squad member to play in more than one series but she has not played Fast5 since 2014.<\/p>\n

Half the New Zealand squad will be experiencing the series for the first time.<\/p>\n

Nineteen-year\u2013old Jamaican shooter, Shimona Nelson, is the only teenager in the competition.<\/p>\n

South Africa are the second most inexperienced side with five debutantes. However, they have four players that featured in last year\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n

The South Africans have the tournament\u2019s tallest player, with Fikile Mkhuzangwe standing at six foot six inches (1.98 metres).<\/p>\n

Last year was her first Fast5 experience and she made good use of her height to manage 29 centre pass receives, four interceptions and six deflections.<\/p>\n

All six teams will play six 24, minute games across the two-day series, each team will feature on both days of the competition and the finals will be held on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Malawi\u2019s Queens arrived in Perth, Australia, on Monday before proceeding to Melbourne ahead of the competition which throws off Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malawi national netball team go into this weekend\u2019s Fast5 Netball World Series in Melbourne, Australia, as the most experienced of the six competing teams. According to a report on fast5worldseries.com, the Queens have four players who featured in three series, with only one debutant. The report stated that Malawi would need all this experience as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55562","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\/55562","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=55562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55569,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55562\/revisions\/55569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}