Screw basketball, I’m moving on to netball.
So I’m watching tv in my hotel room in Shanghai and on comes this commercial promoting the 2011 world netball championships in Singapore.
Played predominantly by women, it is very similar to basketball (see the picture above).
Taken from Wikipedia:
Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. The sport shares many similarities with basketball, having been derived from early versions of women’s basketball. It developed as a distinct sport in the 1890s in England, from where it spread to other countries. Netball is popular in Commonwealth nations and is predominantly played by women.
Games are played on a rectangular court divided into thirds, with a raised goal at each short end. The object of the game is for teams to score points by passing a ball and shooting it into the opposing team’s goal. Players are assigned “positions” that define their role within the team and restrict their movement on court. During general play, a player with the ball can take no more than one step before passing it, and cannot hold the ball for longer than three seconds. Goals can only be scored by the assigned shooting players, and successful shots score one point each. Netball games are 60 minutes long, divided into 15-minute quarters, at the end of which the team with the most points scored wins.
If YouTube wasn’t blocked here in China, I’d be all over finding some live action videos right now.
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