MONDAY DECEMBER 21 2020 SPORT 45 Coffey in Oz squad for big Cup JOSH SPASARO

TERRITORIAN Gabby Cof- fey has been selected in Aus- simply tralia’s Netball World Youth Cup squad. Netball Australia plans to bring the selected players to- gether for a training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra in February. sublime Both Leesa Mi Mi and Nyah Allen have been included as in- vitees for this camp. ANALYSIS Broad was head and shoulders After a year of setbacks due PETER LALOR the best on the day. Gideon to the COVID-19 pandemic, Haigh observed in the head coach Kylee Byrne said EVEN now the events of day Et Cetera podcast that it was she was excited to work with three in Adelaide are sitting in one of those day where every this group. the “what the hell happened?” caught the edge rather “I am incredibly grateful we column and only now is the than passed by it and every are able to begin preparing for enormity of Australia’s catch was held. the Netball World Youth Cup achievement – and India’s em- The Australians, however, again after the COVID-19 pan- barrassment – becoming ap- worked as a cartel, demic put it on hold this year,” parent. Pat Cummins finished with she said. If that day in Cape Town in 4-21 from his 62 deliveries, “Over the next 10 months, 2011, when 23 fell as 5-8 from his myself and the selection panel the Australians were rolled for 30. did not pick will be monitoring athlete per- 47, and that day at Edgbaston up a but only conceded formances in building towards in 2015, when they were evict- seven runs from his six overs. the Netball World Youth Cup, ed for 60, are any guide it will The Indians were allowed at camps and various compe- continue to confound for years no width or respite. None titions set to take place in 2021. to come. could score and none could “I see so much potential How to explain India’s loss? survive. Most died trying to with this group of athletes and A good cricket team which had hold on, although I can’t wait to spend the next scored over 244 in the first in- went trying to break the shack- year working closely with nings arrived at the ground les. Somebody at the CricViz them in the hope of bringing with a lead of 62 on the first in- set-up got the protractor out back the Netball World Youth nings and nine wickets in the and established there was .66 Cup to Australia.” bank were beaten before the degrees of seam and .58 de- Six athletes of the squad are day was done. grees of swing which was currently signed to 2021 Sun- Brodie Filo starred for Nightcliff against Districts. Picture: Celina Whan AFLNT Media Nothing dramatic hap- mostly in line with the two pre- corp Super Netball squad lists, pened between days one and ceding days and nowhere near including Sunday Aryang, three. The pitch got a little fast- what England summoned at Ruby Barkmeyer, Sophie er, the overhead conditions re- Edgbaston five years back. Dwyer, Georgie Horjus, Ma- FILO CLAWS BACK TO BEST mained perfect, the incidents Swing and seam are negat- tilda McDonell and Allie happened in sunshine and not ed if the ball is too full and im- Smith. GREY MORRIS hit my straps after coming off bit around Christmas time when the lights come on. potent if too short, but if you The selection panel is made a few weeks off in what was with half a dozen games left Yes, it was a very low-scor- find the Goldilocks length that up of Kylee Byrne, Michelle TWO-TIME NTFL best-and- a good little freshen up,’’ Filo until finals,’’ he said. ing Test, in fact the match total the Australian pair did you will Wilkins (Netball Centre of Ex- fairest Brodie Filo showed he told the NT News. “We’ve had a few down of 564 runs was the lowest ever get the edges rather than pass- cellence head coach) and was back to his best on “I’ve been playing mostly games, but now we’re at Adelaide Oval. ing them by. proxy Australian 21-and-under Saturday night in another on-ball and Bakshy (coach starting to run into some However, the Australian in- CricViz’s Ben Jones focused selector Carol Cathcart, with reminder to the rest of the Chris Baksh) has put me up form. We don’t really have nings that wrapped up the on Hazlewood who brought up the permanent appointment of Premier League defending forward now. I’m sort of any ins and outs around the game was proof runs could be his 200th Test wicket in the the third selector to be con- champion Nightcliff is relishing that and I’m feeling team in terms of people scored on this pitch and this match but a man who flies firmed in January 2021. moving into finals mode. pretty dangerous.” going home and with about day. Hell, one batsman who under the radar. Further athlete selection Playing as a high forward, Filo said the addition of four or five to come back in has not been able to find runs Hazlewood is the most ac- will take place in the months Filo booted three goals in his big ruckman Jackson Bowen we’re looking pretty good.’’ found 50 and another who was curate bowler in , leading up to the 2021 Netball team’s 31-point win over earlier this month had And the prospects of a moved up from the middle landing 44 per cent of his deliv- World Youth Cup set to take Southern Districts, and could worked a treat in sorting out third Nichols Medal and the order played a handy knock. eries on a good line and length. place in Fiji from December have had two or three more the Tigers’ midfield in terms chance to create a big piece It is clear now that the 92 Three others in the past 14 1-19. in a performance reminiscent of getting their hands around of NTFL history? “I’m not deliveries bowled by Australia years have been slightly more 2021 Australia 21 and Under of his Nichols Medal seasons the ball. thinking about that right to remove the nine Indian accurate but none have bowled Squad: Sunday Aryang WA, in 2016 and again in 2019- “As a result we’re starting now. What we do as a team batsmen still standing were with his speed. Hazlewood’s Lucy Austin SA, Ruby Bark- 20. to look dangerous and it’s a for the rest of the season is among the best spells ever other defining factor is his re- meyer VIC, Reilley Batcheldor “I feel like I’m starting to good time to be showing a more important,’’ Filo said. bowled. At Edgbaston Stuart lease height of 2.17m. QLD, Chelsea Blackman SA, Gabby Coffey NT, Jemma Do- noghue NSW, Sophie Dwyer NSW, Georgie Horjus SA, Sports science has built a perfect pace machine Clare Iongi NSW, Matisse Le- therbarrow NSW, Matilda ROBERT CRADDOCK which stretches back almost formidable bowling unit Remarkably, the two most McDonell NSW, Annie Miller a decade. Australia has ever had. underrated Australian bowlers NSW, Hannah Mundy VIC, IT was cricket’s version of a Sports science, with all of The theory that bowlers of the last 40 years – Ryan Har- Tyler Orr SA, Maddie Ridley car crash but you could never its newfangled bowling must be managed and restric- ris and Bruce Reid – returned VIC, Amy Sligar NSW, Allie call it an accident. workload restrictions, is a ted until their bodies and spi- identical stats (27 Tests, 113 Smith VIC, Mia Stower QLD, The day a vaunted all- much-maligned part of nes fully form in their mid 20s wickets at 23) but, had they Emma Walters VIC, Molly conquering Indian modern cricket but it has has earnt the ire of many old- started their careers today, they Watson SA, Tayla Williams order entered history as the played an important role in timers but, especially with may have doubled those num- SA. February Camp Invitees: suddenly notorious Adelaide the emergence of Pat Cummins, the fruits of the bers because they would have Nyah Allen SA, Leesa Mi Mi 36ers was the result of Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, theory are there for all to see. been nursed towards greatness QLD. a lot of things, including de- Mitchell Starc and Nathan Bowlers just don’t break rather than having their careers was tailed, sensitive planning Lyon as arguably the most down like they used to. curtailed by injury. struck by Pat Cummins.

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