2010 Commonwealth Games, Net Ball

Netball is one of the core sport events that features at the Commonwealth Games. It made its first entry at the Commonwealth Games of 1998 in Kuala Lumpur. Since then it has become a very popular sport at the Commonwealth Games. The sport is meant only for the women.

Netball will also make its appearance at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Some of the best Netball teams of the world will participate in the competition. It will comprise of 6 teams divided into 2 pools. Each team can have 12 players. The teams will compete as per the "round-robin" format. The 2 leading teams from each pool will advance into the final round. The pools will be divided in the following manner.

Pool A
•New Zealand
•Papua New Guinea
•England
•Cook Islands
•Barbados
•South Africa

Pool B
•Australia
•Malawi
•Jamaica
•Samoa
•Trinidad and Tobago
•India

The number of medals for which the twelve nations will compete in the Netball event are 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze. The Netball event at the Commonwealth Games, 2010 will be held at the Thyagaraj Sports Complex, Delhi. The training venues for this purpose are Delhi University and Thyagaraj Sports Complex. The events will take place from 4th to 14th October, 2010.

In the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the winning nations of the Netball event were New Zealand (Gold), Australia (Silver) and England (Bronze).

Slow and unsteady facelift for Commonwealth Games 2010

Days after Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit took her team to task for lagging behind in executing Commonwealth Games projects, Mail Today finds that most stretches are lying dug up and unfinished masonry littered all over in the name of streetscaping
The entrails ripped out of several of the Capital's sidewalks - particularly those located around Commonwealth Games venues - give the lie to the civic agencies' claims that streetscaping work on 23 roads is almost 90 per cent complete.
That these eyesores have led Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit to serve a stiff August 31 ultimatum for completion of CWG projects bears further testimony to the beautification venture making excruciatingly slow progress.
The fact is that just around 50 per cent work has been finished on almost all roads. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi's ( MCD's) July 15 streetscaping deadline for stretches such as Bhishma Pitamah Marg and Lodhi Road (abutting Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium), Maharishi Valmiki Marg (approach road to Thyagaraj Stadium) and Chaudhary Dalip Singh Marg (leading to Siri Fort Sports Complex) is, therefore, as good as missed.
The Public Works Department (PWD) hasn't fared much better on the pavements of Marginal Bund Road - the stretch leading to the Games Village near Akshardham Temple.
With a substantial portion of the work remaining in all these areas and the monsoon bottleneck looming, the worry now is whether the streetscaping projects will at all be ready in time for the sporting extravaganza which is less than 90 days away.
MCD has received Rs 100 crore from the Delhi government for 2010 Games streetscaping work
This stretch leads to the Akshardham Temple and the CWG Village in East Delhi. Four days after being pulled up by the Delhi government for the tardy progress of work here, the PWD hasn't yet got cracking.
A large portion of the streetscaping work lies incomplete on this road. But the civic agency has not bothered to deploy more labourers to expedite the project, which includes paving and greening of sidewalks.
The large amount of construction material on the road shows the work may take another month to finish. "A lot of stone work is left. We need to lay the tiles and intersperse them with granite slabs, which will take at least a month," a labourer said.
While urban development minister A. K. Walia and transport minister Arvinder Singh Lovely have been assured by the PWD that work will be wrapped up soon, the actual situation is grim.
At an inspection last week, Walia had said the PWD must speed up.
"I am dissatisfied with the progress of upgrade of roads leading to the Village and have instructed officials to accelerate," Walia had said. The minister was particularly upset with work on a flyover near the Village.

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