The world No.1 Australian Diamonds will look to clean sweep the Jamaica Series with victory over the Sunshine Girls in Melbourne on Wednesday night.
And they’ll have added reason to celebrate as skipper Liz Watson joins Australia’s elite 100-Test cap club in front of her home fans.
Watson joins only the likes of Vicki Wilson, Liz Ellis, Sharelle McMahon, Catherine Cox and Caitlin Bassett to bring up the triple figures – but will become the first midcourter to achieve the feat.
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In this series, the Diamonds have been dominant from the get-go, claiming 31- and 32-goal victories in the first two matches.
Now they touch down in Melbourne for their final Test before their Commonwealth Games gold medal defence gets underway in Glasgow in late July.
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Coach Stacey Marinkovich has shown full confidence in her squad of 12 with every player getting minutes on court in the first two games.
And she’s set to shake up her starting seven once again at John Cain Arena on Wednesday night.
Jamaica meantime will be looking to put in a competitive 60-minute performance after getting blown off court in patches throughout this series.
“We’re not quite there yet,” coach Sasher-Gaye Henry lamented.
“We want to improve in terms of our scoring rate. We want to cut the Diamonds’ scoring rate also. Lots of work for us to do.
“Some of the turnovers are things that we can control – the stepping and the mis-catch, some of the bad passes, we can control that.
“We just need everyone to show up and do their part.”
Game three will be played at John Cain Arena with the first centre pass from 7.30pm AEDT.
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