2017 Fast5 Netball World Series

The 2017 Fast5 Netball World Series was the eighth staging of the annual Fast5 Netball World Series, and the fifth to be played under the new Fast5 rules, which replaced the older fastnet rules introduced in 2009. The tournament was held in Australia for the second time with the venue being at Hisense Arena in Melbourne.[1]

2017 Fast5 Netball World Series
Tournament details
Host nation Australia
Dates28–29 October 2017
No. of nations6
Final positions
Champions  England
Runner-up  Jamaica
← 2016
2018 →

The 2017 tournament was contested by the same six teams that competed last year.

Overview

Date and Venue

The 2017 Fast5 Netball World Series was played in Melbourne, Australia over two days, from 28–29 October. All matches were held at Hisense Arena, which has a capacity of 10,500.

Format

18 matches were played over two days, under the Fast5 rules of netball. Each team played each other once during the first two days in a round-robin format. The two highest-scoring teams from this stage progressed to the Grand Final while the remaining teams contested the third-fourth place playoff match and fifth-sixth place playoff match.

Teams

The tournament is being contested by the six top national netball teams in the world, according to the INF World Rankings:

Draw and results
Saturday 28 October (Round Robin Matches)
Game Time (AEDST) Match Details
1 13:45  Australia 34-21  Malawi Replay
2 14:30  South Africa 29-37  Jamaica Replay
3 15:15  New Zealand 30-37  England Replay
4 16:00  Australia 23-26  Jamaica Replay
5 16:45  England 43-15  Malawi Replay
6 17:30  New Zealand 40-26  South Africa Replay
7 18:15  Jamaica 31-24  Malawi Replay
8 19:00  England 43-33  South Africa Replay
9 19:45  Australia 40-30  New Zealand Replay
Sunday 29 October (Round Robin Matches)
Game Time (AEDST) Match Details
10 12:15  Malawi 26-28  South Africa Replay
11 13:00  Australia 19-28  England Replay
12 13:45  New Zealand 23-30  Jamaica Replay
13 14:30  Australia 31-18  South Africa Replay
14 15:15  New Zealand 29-27  Malawi Replay
15 16:00  Jamaica 47-38  England Replay

Standings
Sunday 29 October (Placement Matches)
Game Time (AEDST) Match Details
16 17:45  Malawi 17-28  South Africa 5th/6th Playoff (Replay)
17 18:35  Australia 34-15  New Zealand 3rd/4th Playoff (Replay)
18 19:25  Jamaica 29-34  England Final (Replay)

Final Placings
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References

Official Link

  1. "Australia New Home of Fast5 Netball World Series". 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
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