South Africa’s senior workforce – the SPAR Proteas and their Below 21 workforce – the SPAR Child Proteas arrived within the island on Saturday evening for his or her three-match Margaret Beckford Sunshine Sequence. They may face the Sunshine Ladies who’re nonetheless on a excessive from defeating England just lately.
The SPAR Proteas’ head coach Jenny Van Dyk was brimming with expectations for a clear sweep of the sequence. “We additionally go for the win. I might not be the nationwide coach if we might step onto the courtroom and never need to win. It’s necessary to us a rustic. We like to win so for us we going for 3 wins on the finish of the day.”
“I’m actually trying ahead to the Jamaican matches. Its such an necessary alternative for us to start out off our planning and to essentially get every part into movement. We’ve been enjoying groups that rank decrease than us. Places a variety of strain on you since you are able the place you may’t actually lose however enjoying the highest 4 is unquestionably the place we wanna be and its who we need to play yearly, and I feel this new settlement between Jamaica and South Africa is simply implausible. Us coming right here and them coming to us subsequent 12 months and in addition together with the youthful gamers, I feel its step in the precise route. So for us it’s about exploring the Caribben type and actually respecting them and simply having fun with the aptitude and athleticism that the Jamaica workforce brings to the sport but additionally to counter that with what we received to present as South Africans so it’s an necessary one for us” stated coach Van Dyk.
The SPAR Proteas squad reads: Defenders: Boitumelo Mahloko, Sanmarie Visser, Ane Retief, Nicola Smith, Jamie van Wyk; Mid-Court docket: Kamogelo Maseko, Tarle Mathe, Khanyisa Chawane, Refiloe Nketsa, Jeante Strydom; Shooters: Nichole Breedt, Rolene Streutker, Elmerè van der Berg, Ine-Mari Venter, Owethu Ngubane
The final time South Africa toured Jamaica was in 2012 once they defeated the house workforce after successful two of the three matches in that sequence. The match-ups between Jamaica and South Africa exhibits fifteen wins for Jamaica to a few for South Africa.
The SPAR Child Proteas’ coach Valuable Mthembu was not keen to foretell a selected end result for the sequence however stated that the matches could be powerful and really aggressive. “We’re simply excited to be a part of the sequence. We need to study extra and return house with a variety of classes learnt. We need to see how the younger women play and hopefully we return house and work on some issues that we have to work on.”
The SPAR Child Proteas squad reads Mbali Diphoko, Michelle van der Merwe, Giada Prinsloo, Lisa Ingwersen, Thato Legodi, Jade Atkins, Karla Victor, Kyla Dames, Noncubeko Mjaliswa, Phophi Nematangari, Kiara van Eeden, Zahrah Noah, Ametisse Bandu, Luca Keun, Zionne Grobler
The workforce was met on the airport by their Performing Excessive Commissioner Phumeza Mukendi who had excessive expectations for the workforce whereas promising to help all of the matches. “We anticipate them to win. I do know that they will be enjoying with very succesful workforce of Jamaica. Jamaicans are recognized worldwide for his or her prowess in athletics however we additionally consider that our women are as much as it and that they may win.”
The matches will probably be performed on the Nationwide Indoor Sports activities Centre in Kingston on January 18, 22 and 25. They are going to be double-header matches – the Below 21 play first after which the senior groups.
