England bounced back from a difficult loss to world number one side Australia with a 73-38 victory over Malawi at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
There was no hangover from the 66-47 loss to Australia<\/a> as England cruised into a 18-9 lead in the first quarter.<\/p>\n England consistently kept their advantage throughout before stepping it up in the final quarter to allow Malawi just five points to the Roses’ 18.<\/p>\n Goal shooter Eleanor Cardwell proved to be an influential substitution, scoring all of her 21 shots following her introduction in the second half.<\/p>\n “After yesterday’s loss, we’ve definitely turned things around and fixed some of the things we got wrong,” said vice-captain Amy Carter.<\/p>\n “At the start of a tournament, a loss isn’t actually a bad thing to have. In the last 24 hours, we’ve looked at video, righted some of the wrongs, connected as a group, had a games night and just spent time together as team-mates. <\/p>\n “We didn’t get too bogged down by it because we’ve got to look forward.”<\/p>\n The Roses are third in Pool A behind reigning champions Australia and South Africa.<\/p>\n They will next face Tonga on Wednesday at 16:00 BST before playing South Africa – their rivals for a place in the semi-finals – on Thursday at 21:00 BST.<\/p>\n England are looking to regain the gold they won in 2018 but have had a rocky preparation for the tournament.<\/p>\n Jess Thirlby stepped down as head coach<\/a> in March for family reasons, leaving assistant Anna Stembridge in interim charge, while injuries to Helen Housby and Natalie Metcalf<\/a> mean 10 of the Roses’ 12-player squad have made their Commonwealth debuts in Glasgow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England bounced back from a difficult loss to world number one side Australia with a 73-38 victory over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-546654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546654","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=546654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}