{"id":36430,"date":"2025-09-22T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/36430\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:49:07","slug":"silver-ferns-arrive-in-napier-for-sold-out-match-against-proteas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/36430\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Ferns arrive in Napier for sold-out match against Proteas"},"content":{"rendered":"

They will be eager to wrap up the series against the Proteas with a game to spare.<\/p>\n

The match will also mark a special occasion for Silver Fern Kimiora Poi, a former Napier Girls\u2019 High student.<\/p>\n

\"GraceGrace Nweke in action during the first Taini Jamison Trophy test against South Africa on Sunday. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n

It is the first time the Silver Ferns have played in Hawke\u2019s Bay since their 46-49 loss to the English Roses in September 2017 in that year\u2019s Taini Jamison Trophy series. The Ferns went on to win that series two games to one.<\/p>\n

Interim Silver Ferns coach Yvette McCausland-Durie has replaced Dame Noeline Taurua for the current series, after the latter was surprisingly stood down.<\/p>\n

That decision reportedly related to Taurua\u2019s<\/a> leadership style<\/a> and stemmed from issues which arose during a training camp in Sydney earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Taurua has since received public backing from the likes of Silver Fern great Laura Langman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the win on Sunday, McCausland-Durie said she was really proud of her team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been under a lot of pressure and everybody wanted to own their role and take responsibility for their performance,\u201d she told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n

The final game of the series will be held in Invercargill on Sunday, before the Silver Ferns take on old foe Australia in a four-game series in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They will be eager to wrap up the series against the Proteas with a game to spare. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10466,9092,3017,11429,28824,10541,33758,2082,305,78,10543,3607,16762,111,139,69,15026,30914,4514,7457,33757,1240,213,4412,165],"class_list":["post-36430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-african","tag-against","tag-ahead","tag-arrive","tag-arrived","tag-ferns","tag-fixture","tag-for","tag-have","tag-in","tag-match","tag-napier","tag-netball","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-plane","tag-proteas","tag-same","tag-silver","tag-soldout","tag-south","tag-sports","tag-teams","tag-their"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}