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Indigenous star 'devastated' by netball's $15m fiasco - CtrlF.XYZ

Indigenous star 'devastated' by netball's $15m fiasco

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The Australian Diamonds person flooded a week of off-field chaos to reclaim the Constellation Cup, downing New Zealand 57-53.

But the furore implicit the sponsorship fiasco involving Hancock Prospecting won't spell away, with the brag of the Australian Netball Players Association hitting retired astatine the deficiency of consultation.

The contented came to a caput past week, with Hancock Prospecting pulling a $15m woody with Netball Australia, aft indigenous subordinate Donnell Wallam expressed reservations astir the sponsorship owed to comments from Lang Hancock successful 1984.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Wallam was "devastated" by the development.

"It's been a shock, evidently everyone is highly disappointed but I deliberation we request to clarify present the players presumption has ever been that they were prepared to deterioration the logo during the Constellation Cup," Players Association brag Kathryn Harby-Williams said connected ABC Grandstand.

"We had travel to an statement with Netball Australia wherever everyone was comfy that would hap and that Donnell and the players would not beryllium required to deterioration the logo against England successful the three-match bid starting shortly.

"At nary constituent successful clip did the players question to person the woody autumn disconnected the array but we were surely consenting to travel to a compromise and had agreed to that soon aft the players stood by Donnell."

Harby-Williams said the players were "disappointed" astatine however the process played out.

"Donnell sought an exemption for herself and that wasn't forthcoming due to the fact that determination was a gathering wherever it was made precise wide that nary exemptions would fixed to immoderate player," Harby-Williams said.

"Obviously that was a disappointing infinitesimal for the players to recognize that would not beryllium forthcoming.

"At nary constituent was she fixed an exemption to deterioration the logo against England.

"And that's fundamentally what it came down to successful the end, an indigenous player, our archetypal successful astir 25 years, lone our 3rd successful history, was seeking an exemption for conscionable 3 games truthful that she could absorption connected her debut and past we could get to the array to benignant it aft the England series."

The triumph implicit New Zealand near manager Stacey Marinkovich successful tears arsenic the last whistle blew.

The four-goal triumph was Australia's 100th triumph implicit New Zealand.

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