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Sunday, March 16, 2025

Calypso netballers take aim at stopping England today

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This coun­try's "Ca­lyp­so net­ballers" will be aim­ing to end their Tri-Se­ries against host Eng­land on a high when they face off in the third and fi­nal Test at Echo Are­na, Liv­er­pool, from 7.15 pm (2.15 pm TT time) this af­ter­noon.

The world third ranked Eng­land has al­ready wrapped up the se­ries against the ninth rat­ed T&T hav­ing won the first two match­es, 65-42 on Wednes­day in Som­er­set and then, 67-42 on Fri­day in Lon­don.

Fol­low­ing to­day's match, both teams will head to Belfast, North­ern Ire­land for the Net­ball Eu­rope Rank­ing Com­pe­ti­tion and Open Cham­pi­onship, May 14-17.

That tour­na­ment will fea­ture the host, Scot­land, Wales, Eng­land, T&T and fel­low guest team South Africa.

The quar­tet of Gibral­tar (#34), Ire­land (#28), Mal­ta (#36) and Switzer­land (#30) will com­pete in a rank­ings round-robin tour­na­ment.

The tour­na­ment in Belfast will serve as the last re­al test for T&T ahead of the 14th Net­ball World Cup in Syd­ney Aus­tralia, from Au­gust 7-16

The "Ca­lyp­so Net­ballers" who won the world ti­tle in 1979 joint­ly with Aus­tralia and New Zealand will come up against the top two teams in the world, host Aus­tralia and New Zealand in Pool A as well as Caribbean ri­vals Bar­ba­dos in round-robin play in Aus­tralia.

Pool B of the 2015 Cham­pi­onship fea­tures world third and fourth ranked teams, Eng­land and Ja­maica as well as Scot­land and Samoa, while Malawi, South Africa, Sin­ga­pore and Sri Lan­ka com­prise Pool C, and the quar­tet of Fi­ji, Wales, Ugan­da and Zam­bia make up Pool D with the match­es card­ed for the 21,000 seat All­phones Are­na (for­mer­ly known as the Syd­ney Su­per­Dome and Ac­er Are­na), Syd­ney Olympic Park.


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