OPINION: Netball World Cup lacking a competitive pulse after a week of lopsided lead-up games
Netball is far from the only sport to have agonised about the twin purpose of peak tournaments to cater for elite competition while also aiding global development.
Providing such balance is becoming more problematic for women's sport with the competitive gap widening between those nations that are belatedly funding female sports programs and those lagging behind for financial or even ideological and religious reasons. Similarly, the Australian women's cricket team appears to have stolen a march on their arch-rival England with Cricket Australia's significant wage increases for elite women and the growth of the WBBL creating more virtual full-time players.
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