New Zealand have won the Netball World Cup beating Australia 52-51 in a fantastic final in Liverpool.
I am sooooooooo glad New Zealand have won. For their country to lose two world cup finals in 8 days would have been heartbreaking and something they really don't deserve.
Credit to the Diamonds (Australia) they played a great game and pushed the Silver Ferns (New Zealand) all the way.
I guess Netball doesn't register on the consciousness of most of you on this site, but it's the game I play and we have had a fortnight of really great netball which has been quite thrilling.
New Zealand, worthy winners and they can take a trophy home from England this week and enjoy the welcome they are bound to get when they fly into Auckland airport.
Earlier this afternoon England beat South Africa for the bronze medal.
England are the current Commonwealth champions and had hoped to win the trophy but the Kiwi girls were too strong in the semi final. They deserved to win.
The current England team will now break up as a number of key players are retiring from the game. They're around the same age as me, so perhaps there's a message there.
Head Coach Tracey Neville is also calling it a day as she now intends to start a family. Best wishes to her for that.
But today belongs to New Zealand and they thoroughly deserve it. Commiserations Australia. Multiple - and worthy - netball champions in the past but not today.
You don't get a coconut every time, Sid.
Action from the final
Kiwi girls celebrate their win