By Benedicto Maguda

Blantyre, November 6, Mana: Sports commentators in the country have expressed dissatisfaction with Malawi Queens’s underperformance in the recent Spar Challenge International Netball Taste Series after losing all the three matches against South Africa.

Speaking with Malawi News Agency (MANA) on Wednesday, Josephy Anointed Kasampha, a sports analyst said Malawians were not expecting such performance by the Queens.

“This is very disappointing performance by our team. There must be other contributing factors that have led to such bad performance, but I understand that the coach is building a new team,” he said.

Kasampha said rebuilding of the team is not enough reason to lose all the games for a team that had so much glory.

“As a country we are supposed to look in future because our team is in transition time whereby new players are coming in. However, we are not expecting such results. It’s my hope that our Queens will be back to winning ways after correcting the mistakes that were done during the games,” he said.

Another Sports Commentator, Kimu Kamau, said it is sad that the Queens lost all the three games and therefore serious action needed to be taken.

“We have a good coach but in terms of coaching she has no experience. She was supposed to start coaching Under 20 or Under 23 before going to Queens for her to gain experience. There is also need to bring in other experienced people to the team so that they can build a good team,” he said.

Kamau agreed with Kasampha, saying that the unavailability of experienced players such as Laurene Ngwira, Takondwa Luwazi and Mwai kumwenda contributed a lot to the bad performance of the team.

The Malawi Queens went to South Africa on 28 October to take part in the Netball Taste Series where they lost against South Africa 68-31 on Thursday, 69-38 on Saturday and 69-24 on Sunday.