T&T se­nior women’s na­tion­al team net­ballers, goal-at­tack Kali­fa Mc Collin and goal de­fence Daystar Swift had their de­but sea­sons in the ANZ Pre­mier­ship Net­ball League which jumped off last Sat­ur­day in New Zealand, post­poned.

Play­ing at the Edgar Cen­tre Dunedin, Splice Con­struc­tion Waika­to Bay of Plen­ty Mag­ic opened its sea­son with a 54-48 vic­to­ry over the As­cot Park Ho­tel South­ern Steel, the club of T&T’s Mc Collin.

How­ev­er, on Thurs­day, Net­ball New Zealand de­cid­ed to post­pone the sea­son for two weeks due to the on­go­ing coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic. The de­ci­sion was made fol­low­ing the New Zealand Gov­ern­ment’s an­nounce­ment on Thurs­day re­gard­ing in­door mass gath­er­ings.

The post­pone­ment will take ef­fect im­me­di­ate­ly for the sched­uled games in round two and three that were due to be played to­mor­row and Mon­day and from March 28-30.

The de­ci­sion to re­turn to play will be re­viewed in just over a week and Net­ball NZ re­mains in close con­sul­ta­tion with Pre­mier­ship teams re­gard­ing the sea­son ahead.

The 2020 ANZ Pre­mier­ship sea­son is planned to recom­mence from round four with no change to sched­uled fix­tures on April 5 and 6, when Mc Collin's South­ern Steel faces the Mys­tics while Swift's Stars come up against The Good Oil Tac­tix.

Wal­lace's Su­per Net­ball sea­son faces un­cer­tain­ty

Chris Syming­ton, Sun­corp Su­per Net­ball chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer (CEO), says the league is look­ing at sev­er­al sce­nar­ios' re­gard­ing the up­com­ing sea­son which is due to start on May 2.

The CEO gave the as­sur­ance that their pri­or­i­ty is the health and well-be­ing of their fans, ath­letes, coach­es, um­pires, of­fi­cials, vol­un­teers and staff.

Ear­li­er this month, the Sun­corp Team Girls Cup, a pre-sea­son com­pe­ti­tion among the clubs in­clud­ing T&T's Saman­tha Wal­lace's New South Wales Swifts in the league was pre­vi­ous­ly can­celled and ad­vice to teams re­gard­ing pre-sea­son match­es in Aus­tralia was to 'de­liv­er them in a con­trolled en­vi­ron­ment' and that they are 'closed to the gen­er­al pub­lic'.

Syming­ton stat­ed that there's to be no in­ter­state trav­el for pre-sea­son match­es at this stage.

The state­ment added: "Be as­sured that the Su­per Net­ball League (SNL) and Net­ball Aus­tralia (NA) are work­ing close­ly with all our key stake­hold­ers as well as gov­ern­ment and health ex­perts to mon­i­tor the sit­u­a­tion and adapt our plans where nec­es­sary to en­sure the best pos­si­ble out­comes."