{"id":14344,"date":"2023-07-15T16:11:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sistersnsport.com\/coaching\/?p=14344"},"modified":"2023-09-05T11:35:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T11:35:06","slug":"how-cricket-inspired-the-sport-of-netball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistersnsport.com\/coaching\/2023\/07\/15\/how-cricket-inspired-the-sport-of-netball\/","title":{"rendered":"How Cricket Inspired The Sport Of Netball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you trace the lineage of sports before they were played in the modern professional leagues we come to expect today, you see a lot of connections between sports that drifted far apart from each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The differences between Netball and Basketball, for example, emerged as the result of a misinterpretation of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/James-Naismith\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James Naismith\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rules of the latter, but in 2023 the only aspect that basketball and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sistersnsport.com\/coaching\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">netball events<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have in common is that you throw a ball through a hoop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, there is also a surprising connection between netball and cricket, as well as Rugby, namely in the structure of the season, the teams that commonly play the sport and in attempts to bring the sport to a wider audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Test Match\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easily the closest connection between the two sports is the concept of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/test-match\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">test match<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is an officially sanctioned international game or group of games played by two national netball teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The term comes from cricket, with by far the most famous test match series in the world being the annual <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/story\/a-short-history-of-the-ashes-259985\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ashes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite being commonly associated with cricket due to how fundamentally it changes how the game is played, test matches are also played in rugby and netball continuing that tradition amongst the biggest teams in the sport, such as New Zealand, Australia and England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Format Changes<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other major inspiration that netball borrowed from cricket 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