D'arcy And Goran

Netball and the White Ferns are the big winners in the latest High Performance Sport New Zealand investment announcement.HPSNZ have confirmed a $36.8 million core investment programme for 2020 with no changes made to the funding for tier 1, 2 and 3 sports involved in the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics."This approach is designed to give Olympic and Paralympic sports more certainty on which to base their transition from the Tokyo to Paris Olympic cycles and their preparations through the Paris cycle," says HPSNZ Chief Executive Michael Scott said.Netball is the only sport with a significant boost while the women's cricket team will receive the biggest per-year increase.Netball's funding has increased from $1.50 million to $1.88 million per annum for each of the next four years in preparation for the 2022 Commonwealth Games and 2023 World Cup.In another boost for women's sport, cricket's investment of $500,000 per year shifts from the Black Caps to the White Ferns for the next two years to support preparation fo