11th National Men's Netball Championship 2012 from 16th

By Afshan Younis

KARACHI, Pakistan (TheSportsNEXT) December 6, 2012: Mudassar Arain, Secretary General, PNF informed TheSportsNEXT.com Thursday that the Pakistan Netball Federation and Higher Education Commission (HEC) are organizing the 11th National Men's Netball Championship 2012.

The Championship will be held at Punjab University in Lahore from 16th to 19th December 2012.

The all affiliated units namely, Army, Wapda, Railway, Police, Navy , Air Force, HEC, LUMS, LGS, Blouchistan, KPK, Punjab, Sindh, Islamabad, Fata & AJK will take part in this mega event. The Police Netball team is the defending champion.

The President, PNF, Zafar Iqbal Awan has nominated the following officials for Rules and Technical Committee for the said event and the committee will look after the all the matter on the grounds.

Abdul Razak Arain                (Chairman)

Ms. Nadia Begum                (Member)

Syed Toqeer Ahmed            (Member)

Ajaz ul Haq                             (Member) 

Major Saleem Ahmed Ch.   (Member)

Muhammad Rizwan             (Member)

Mudassar Arain                     (Member)

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New Zealand beat England to clinch inaugural Fast5 netball title

Anna Thompson, Katrina Grant and Anna Harrison admire the trophy

Monitoring Desk

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (TheSportsNEXT) November 11, 2012: New Zealand held on in a nailbiter to beat England 23-21 and claim the inaugural Fast5 netball world series title, NZ Herald reported Sunday.

In a tournament where the rules encourage big scoring, defensive tactics provided a fascinating element to the final in Auckland on Sunday.

The match ended up being the lowest scoring of the 20 played over the tournament's three days.

New Zealand Fast5 Ferns
pose after winning the final

Up 22-21 with a minute to go, the Fast5 Ferns clung on to the ball to wind the clock down, before passing to Irene van Dyk to nail the game's last goal.

England's Jo Harten, the tournament's top three-point shooter, had one last chance from distance before the final whistle but couldn't get the ball to drop.

Harten did manage a three-pointer earlier in the match to finish the event with 18, five more than the next best tally by compatriot Rachel Dunn.

Defence was also to the fore in the two power plays, when all goals count double.

New Zealand did well to restrict the England Fives to 10 points - one of them a late six-pointer by Dunn - in England's power play.

But the English did better when defending against the Ferns' power play, maintaining possession for significant periods to concede only six points.

Laura Langman lifts the trophy

That left the Fives up 21-20 going into a tense final quarter.

Earlier, the pre-match build-up ended in entertaining fashion, with the New Zealanders coming out on court Gangnam-style and England responding in kind.

The two teams reprised their act after the final whistle, to the delight of the crowd.

South Africa took bronze with a 38-34 win over Jamaica.

Malawi prevailed in the fifth/sixth playoff 33-30 to leave Australia winless from their six matches.

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Karachi Girls Netball Championship 2012 begins from 9th

By Afshan Younis

KARACHI, Pakistan (TheSportsNEXT) October 6, 2012: The Karachi Girls Netball Championship 2012 will be held at Pakistan Sports Board Coaching Center in Karachi from October 9-12 at 9:30 am to 1pm.

 

Talking exclusively to TheSportsNEXT.com on Saturday, Ajaz ul Haq, Secretary, SNA said that the Sindh Netball Association and Pakistan Netball Federation are organizing the event in collaboration with Pakistan Sports Board.

The championship is divided in two different categories including Junior Girls (U16) and Senior Girls (Open).

Mr. Muhammad Rehan Khan, Senior Director, Sports & Culture Department, Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC) will be the chief guest in the opening ceremony.

Following matches will be played on 9th Oct 2012 (1st Day)

Junior Girls (U-16)

1. Mama Parsi V/s Habib Girls Club

2. The City, PECHS V/s Ruqayia Hajiyani

3. Nasra School (Evening) V/s The City Gulshan

4. Head Star V/s Trinity Club

5. Nasra (Morning) V/s The City PAF (Green)

Senior Girls/ OPen

1. St. Joseph  V/s Trinity Club

2. DHA College Club V/s Habib GIrls Club 

The Sindh Netball Association has announced the Technical Officials for this championship which are as under: -

Qudsia Raja

Khalid

Pervez

Shazia Yousaf

Uzma Waqar

Quratul Ain

Habib ur Rehman

Anwar Ahmed

Adnan

Nuzhat Sultana

Darakshan

Humera

Mansoor Baig

Zaib un Nisa

Abida Zahid

Amjad Kiyani

Asad Warsi

Hina Warsi

Brendan Pereira

Ghazala Rajab

Mehwish Zaman

Nusrat Afzal

Shazia Karrar

Tahira

Muhammad Arshad

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