Netball World Cup 2023: Uganda’s She Cranes Learn Opponents
The draws for the 2023 Netball World Cup has been held on Wednesday night in Cape Town South Africa.
The draws for the 16 best nations in the universe saw Uganda’s national netball team, the She Cranes Pitted in group D with World’s number two according to latest rankings, New Zealand.
In that same group, Uganda will battle with other nations like Singapore and Trinidad and Tobago.
This edition’s world cup will be held in Cape Town South Africa in 2023 between July 28th and 6th August.
Uganda has ever met with all the members in the group and in 2019 Netball World Cup held in Liverpool England, She Cranes was in the same pool D with Trinidad and Tobago and in that edition, Uganda beat the former 57-54.
The main threat for Uganda in the group is the Silver Ferns of New Zealand, Uganda has never secured a win against New Zealanders, Uganda’s latest defeat against the side came early this November in the Fast Five world series and even in Summer Commonwealth games Is of 2023.
Each group will be represented by two teams at the quarter final level, last edition, Uganda finished sixth after losing the classification match against South Africa.
This is the fourth time Uganda is featuring in Netball World Cup, the first cam in 1979 before a back to back return in the championship in 2015 and 2019.
It’s not yet confirmed when the Uganda Netball federation will throw off the preparations for the tournament but in his meeting with the She Cranes before their departure to Fast Five world series in New Zealand where they managed to eat the world’s number one and the eventual winner of the tournament, Australia, State Minister for Sports Hon. Peter Ogwang revealed that She Cranes will camp in Cape Town a month prior to the tournament as they get used with the environment in South Africa.
The full draws for World Cup:
Group A:
Australia, Zimbabwe, Tonga and Fiji
Group B:
England, Malawi, Scotland and Barbados
Group C:
Jamaica, South Africa (host), Wales and Sri Lanka
Group D:
New Zealand, Uganda, Trinidad and Tobago and Singapore