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ZIMBABWE senior netball team coach Lloyd Makunde has underscored the importance of league competition for their rebuilding exercise.
The Gems’ coach said local league competition is key for their 2022 plans since they need to bring on board more players to the national side and create competition.
Netball was one of the sport codes that resumed their activities late in the year with both the Premier Netball League and Rainbow Amateur Netball League resorting to crash programmes to fulfil their league games.
Makunde said they were a bit limited this year in their selection process since they did not have enough time prior to their participation in the Pent Series and Africa Netball Cup in Windhoek, Namibia, last month.
“There are some players out there we didn’t have a chance to see playing but they are good players. We selected our players during one tournament, which was played in Bulawayo and as such our selection was limited.
“It’s very important that we watch as many games as possible before we come up with a provisional squad for this coming year,” said Makunde.
He is hoping for a better season next year, with league games being played under their normal schedules, which will give the technical team more time to scout for players for the national team.
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