{"id":79310,"date":"2019-06-19T03:46:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T01:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=79310"},"modified":"2019-06-19T03:46:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T01:46:26","slug":"she-cranes-on-queens-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/19\/she-cranes-on-queens-neck\/","title":{"rendered":"She-Cranes on Queens\u2019 neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_73296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73296\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/griffin-saenda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73296\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/griffin-saenda-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/griffin-saenda-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/griffin-saenda-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/griffin-saenda.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">STRATEGISING\u2014Saenda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Malawi national netball team faces a daunting task to safeguard and improve its world ranking after Uganda\u2019s She-Cranes reduced the gap further on the latest International Netball Federation (INF) rankings released on June 14 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Queens are stuck on position six whereas seventh-placed Uganda trail Malawi by just three points, as the two teams match on weight and rating.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi are sixth from 34 matches and are weighted 27 with 3,222 points and a rating of 119 whereas Uganda have 35 matches and are similarly weighted on 27.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda have 3,219, three below the Queens as they also match Malawi with a rating of 119.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes as both teams would compete at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwc2019.co.uk\">World Cup<\/a> set for Liverpool in England from July 12 to 21 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Queens Coach, Griffin Saenda Senior, said his charges must impress at the world showpiece to rise again on the world rankings.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe have been stuck on this position for some time. We need to pull up our socks and shine at the World Cup so that we should improve our ranking,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Former Malawi captain, Emmie Waya-Chongwe, said the team could perform better if players are featured on merit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe preparations haven\u2019t been the best but what we need is a team that can be featured on merit. Currently, we don\u2019t have Mwawi Kumwenda [injured Australia-based shooter], but Joyce Mvula has also performed well, so we are covered in that area,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Malawi national netball team faces a daunting task to safeguard and improve its world ranking after Uganda\u2019s She-Cranes reduced the gap further on the latest International Netball Federation (INF) rankings released on June 14 2019. The Queens are stuck on position six whereas seventh-placed Uganda trail Malawi by just three points, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79310","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\/79310","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=79310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79314,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79310\/revisions\/79314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}