Netball: Sri Lanka suffers second defeat at World Netball

Sri Lanka suffered her second defeat at the 14th Netball World Cup 2015 at Allphones Arena in Sydney, Australia on Saturday (8).   Playing the second match of Group C Sri Lanka suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Malawi by 101-18 goals in her 8th appearance in the World Cup.   The island nation’s lasses failed to stop the rampaging Malawian shooter and attackers and lost the first quarter 3 goals to 23.   In the second quarter Sri Lanka were behind 3-29.   Resuming after the half time in the 3rd and 4th quarters the Lankans faced the same fate as in the previous two sets to lose 5-22 and 7-27 respectively.   In the first match on Friday Sri Lanka’s dream of beating Singapore was shattered when the Asian Champions scored a 56-43 goals win at the Sydney Olympic Park.   The Lankan lasses started off well holding the Singaporeans to a 12-12 goal tie in the first quarter.   The Sri Lankans never allowed the Singaporeans to dominate and went down fighting to a 18-11 defeat in the second quarter and came back strongly to score a 11-9 lead in the third but failed in the fourth quarter and went down to a 9-17 defeat giving Singapore an overall victory.   Goal Shoot Nisala Algama was outstanding for Sri Lanka making 34 successful shoots out of 39. Sri Lanka in Pool C is grouped along with Malawi, South Africa and Singapore will meet South Africa on Monday (10).   The Lankans finished 14th at the last World Cup in Singapore in 2011 and had a successful outing in their maiden appearance to finish in 9th position in Birmingham, England in 1963.   Earlier in the preliminary round matches of Group C, Malawi beat South Africa 58-51 and South Africa beat Singapore 69-21.