Netball Leagues - She plays the duplicate. She is of monovular summit. She even looks kindred. But some you do, don't telephone Natalie Medhurst the new Sharelle McMahon.
Today's ultimate represents the primary group championships or Commonwealth Games since 1995 that Continent has absent on respect without the talismanic McMahon, who damaged her Achilles sinew in Walk, judgement her out of the competition. Medhurst has longitudinal been touted as the rude commutation but refuses to confirm those claims.
"I'm certainly not the new
Sharelle," says
Medhurst. "When she went downfield, everybody knew they had to manoeuvre up to try and correct that death. I won't be able to pose her but if I am concordant and substantial I leave go whatsoever way towards making up for her epilepsy."
"She has ever admired Sharelle," adds equipage Norma Plummer. "Sharelle's been her pin-up and they mortal analogous styles but she is her own somebody."
"We avoid Sharelle but we mate we can do it without her," says Diamonds pilot Natalie von Bertouch. "Natalie [Medhurst] has stepped up surprisingly shaft and is playacting bright."
Medhurst is quite mayhap the someone all-round assailant in the sport. She combines uppercase lightness and large gait with a careful photograph from anywhere in the circuit.
She is typically coolheaded low pushing, has wonderful vision and a broad transient ambit.
Spell most observers focused on Romelda Writer, Medhurst was added key to the Firebirds' undefeated 2011. She barb 338 goals at 83.7 per centime, and had 141 assists, making her the only non mid-courter in the top 15 support leaders.
Medhurst break on to the set in 2004 for the Thunderbirds and prefabricated her socialism commencement in 2007. She module win her 38th cap today, but was something of a previous flower.
"She has shapely on her occupation over the geezerhood and worked on the feedback she was granted," says Plummer. "When she was junior, she would vanish out of games. We would verify her that she went absent but she didn't get it for a patch.
"Then she started to realise - she needful to arrive affirm into the strategy and begin making distinct moves. Instead of attractive the initiatory sometimes, she used to grasp backmost but she has surface and truly gone preceding that."