South Africa face the Welsh on Thursday and Friday night before traveling to Liverpool for the sport’s biggest tournament on Saturday.

Ine-Mari Venter has been withdrawn from the squad are sustaining an injury during training for the two Tests.

The Free State and Proteas netball legend, Karla Pretorius, told OFM Sport that although this is the first time they are together as a team, they are just about ready for the challenge in Liverpool.

“There two game against Wales on Thursday and Friday night will be in preparation for the Netball World Cup in Liverpool.

“This is the first time want we’ve got together as a team since the quad-series earlier in the year, but our preparations have gone well, as we had a lot of players playing in the overseas leagues.

“We are really excited about the World Cup and our confidence is high, but we know what we are in a tough pool. We will however just be taking it one game at a time.”

South Africa face Trinidad and Tobago next Friday in their opening game of the World Cup.

@MorganPiek OFM Sport