Cooks drawn with Australia in WYNC

Friday 27 March: The Cooks have been drawn in pool B with Australia, at this year’s World Youth Netball Championships in Rarotonga.

Other teams in pool B are Malaysia, Wales and Vanuatu.

For the August 11-21 championships, the unseeded Barbados, and Trinidad & Tobago will contest pool A with defending champions New Zealand, Northern Ireland, and Scotland.

Fourth-seeded Jamaica, the third Caribbean side in the tournament, heads pool D, and will play alongside the USA, Papua New Guinea, Malawi, and

Singapore.

England heads pool C with South Africa, Fiji, Samoa and Botswana.The draw for the WYNC was done at the IFNA board meeting in Los Angeles last week.- MM