Is Australia vs New Zealand netball sports’ greatest rivalry?
Simply amazing. Australia and New Zealand added another chapter to this unbelievable rivalry with easily the highlight of the Commonwealth Games. The Silver Ferns won back-to-back gold medals with a double overtime 66-64 sudden death win in the last event of the games. I’m not a netball expert. Natalie Medhurst, for one, writes for this very site and is obviously far more qualified to talk about the intricacies of the game, and to analyse the gold medal match itself. But from a purely sport-loving stance, this is a clash that always delivers. ALWAYS. It’s like the respective federations have secretly hired Hollywood scriptwriters to deliver twists, turns, thrills and nail-biting, cliff-hanging outcomes, every time the two nations take to the court. Yet, if this WAS all scripted, no-one would believe it. In the latest instalment, Maria Tutaia, a sporting name I’ll gladly admit I’d not heard before this match, scored the goal that took the Silver Ferns two goals ahead in the double overt
