{"id":17807,"date":"2026-02-01T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17807"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:55:31","slug":"netball-south-africa-beat-england-in-series-decider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17807","title":{"rendered":"Netball: South Africa beat England in series decider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Captain Fran Williams admitted England &#8220;weren&#8217;t good enough right from the start&#8221; as they lost 65-50 to South Africa in their series decider in Johannesburg.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After losing the first game, England levelled the series on Saturday to set up the winner-takes-all game on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But in what was their final Test match before this summer&#8217;s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Jess Thirlby&#8217;s side came up against a clinical South Africa side that led throughout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re really disappointed with how we showed up today,&#8221; Williams said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We weren&#8217;t good enough right from the start of the game. Credit to the Proteas, they were better than us today in defence and attack and we&#8217;re going to have to go away and really look at how we showed up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The players will now return to their clubs for their respective 2026 domestic campaigns with the Netball Super League starting on 21 February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/netball\/articles\/c0mk3r2pjeko?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Fran Williams admitted&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}