Diamonds romp dwelling to 69-49 victory over England in Nations Cup netball remaining

Australia’s Diamonds have demonstrated once more why they’re nonetheless in a netball class of their very own as they lifted the Nations Cup within the den of their largest rivals with a thumping 69-49 remaining win over England.

In a rematch of their 2022 World Cup remaining which Australia had received by 16 targets, Liz Watson and her crew once more made England’s Roses wilt with an much more dominant 20-goal victory in Leeds on Sunday.

Ten targets up by half-time after powering out of the blocks and suffocating their opponents in defence, the Stacey Marinkovich-coached outfit by no means let up, ultimately doubling their result in as soon as once more carry the four-team event they’ve successfully made their very own over time.

Impressed by participant of the match Sophie Garbin, together with her 31 targets from 32 makes an attempt, and participant of the collection, centre Paige Hadley, Australia got here out firing, decided to overwhelm a crew who had obtained inside two targets of the world champs in London the earlier weekend

“Getting winners’ medals by no means will get boring,” beamed Garbin. “One of many issues we arrange for this event was to have enjoyable — and we’re flying dwelling tomorrow having had a lot enjoyable.

“We discuss enhancing with every efficiency. We had an awesome efficiency towards Uganda on Saturday and we needed to return out actually robust once more. We have got 13 gamers and each one can come on and do a extremely good job.”

Cheered on by a loud dwelling crowd who had been completely pleased to deal with the Aussies as pantomime villains at any alternative, the jeers shortly turned to near-silence because the Australians’ strain stored squeezing errors from the hosts.