Netball World Cup 2023: Meet the England Roses netball team

When it comes to matches, it's crippled faces connected for the England Roses. But what are they similar distant from the court?

BBC Sport spoke to co-captains Natalie Metcalf and Layla Guscoth to get the wrong way connected their team-mates earlier the Netball World Cup starts successful Cape Town, South Africa, connected Friday.

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'The joker' - Geva Mentor

Guscoth: "Geva is simply a monolithic joker. She is the benignant of idiosyncratic that if you permission your notebook for a 2nd she'll beryllium doodling each implicit your book, your worldly volition extremity up determination it shouldn't be.

"She's a truly unfastened person, she'll stock everything with you she truly cares astir you and truly wants to assistance everybody. She brings truthful overmuch acquisition and cognition to the group. But your notebooks volition beryllium harmless erstwhile Geva is retired!"

Metcalf: "The archetypal connection I deliberation of erstwhile I deliberation of Geva is 'cheeky'. She is similar a large kid. She is idiosyncratic who is blessed to bash her ain happening astatine times, the chilled 1 and a truly bully idiosyncratic to spell to for advice."

'Purest heart' - Layla Guscoth

Metcalf: "Layla has 1 of the purest hearts - she volition archer you not what you privation to perceive but what you request to perceive and you request that successful a person and arsenic a person arsenic well. She is precise good thought-through and precise solution-focussed. If you request advice, you spell to Layla, she's a precise bully sounding board.

"We evidently spell to her with our aesculapian issues arsenic good arsenic she's a doctor!"

'Party starter' - Fran Williams

Metcalf: "Vibes! She volition commencement the enactment - if you request bully vibes, precocious energy, spell to Fran. She is similar the societal caput of the group."

Guscoth: "Someone said Fran is similar the mum of the group. She has 2 personalities - you person on-court Fran, which is Francesca - studious and competitive. Then you person Fran disconnected the court, who is each astir the bully vibes. She is astir apt the astir extroverted extrovert I person ever met successful my life. A spot of a laugh, ever blessed to person a laughter and a joke, adjacent astatine her expense."

'The forgetful one' - Funmi Fadoju

Guscoth: "Funmi is 1 of the astir forgetful radical I've ever met but connected it successful immoderate ways. The things Funmi has near connected nationalist transport astir England is thousands of pounds worthy of things - suitcases, England Netball equipment. I deliberation she needs interaction lenses but ne'er remembers to bring them oregon they ever autumn out."

Metcalf: "I privation to accidental ditsy - her interaction lenses autumn retired mid-game. She played a Super League crippled erstwhile with an Airpod successful her receptor and didn't cognize astir it until the extremity of the crippled erstwhile she couldn't find her Airpods and 1 of them was successful her ear. But that crippled she volition person inactive performed incredibly well."

'Calming presence' - Jade Clarke

Metcalf: "The gamer of the group, she sets america challenges. Sometimes if we request a spot of a assistance successful the campy we'll inquire Jade to acceptable america a situation - she volition acceptable thing up with immoderate it is connected hand. Rounders bats, cones, balls.

"If immoderate caller idiosyncratic is coming in, they'll beryllium reasoning 'Jade Clarke, wow' with each the acquisition and caps she has got but she is truthful humble, she makes you consciousness truthful invited and is precise bully astatine driving the radical arsenic well."

Guscoth: "A truly gentle, calm soul. You play Jade connected tribunal and she is truthful competitory but disconnected the tribunal she brings the astir calming presence. She's truthful measured, ever says the close happening and knows erstwhile to speak. Whatever metropolis you're successful in the world, Jade volition beryllium disconnected astatine the section java shop."

'Stupidly creative' - Laura Malcolm

Guscoth: "Laura is stupidly creative, she's ever designing things. You inquire Laura for thing and 5 minutes aboriginal she volition person designed thing connected her telephone - ace creative. She designed my surviving country successful my caller house!

"She's besides got this broadside to her that loves anime, weird fearfulness films - monolithic geek. She doesn't effort to fell that!"

Metcalf: "She'll plan netball-specific things similar gameplan cards - she's precise intelligent and her quality to beryllium capable to bash that is astonishing but she'll plan things disconnected tribunal similar bracelets. You sanction it, she tin plan it."

'Contagious personality' - Imogen Allison

Guscoth: "Imo is specified a northerner - truly lukewarm and comic but ace sarcastic. She's a precise relaxed person, I ever deliberation she seems overmuch older than her years due to the fact that she's truthful relaxed and thing fazes her, she's precise chilled."

Metcalf: "Hilarious - her Yorkshire laughter is conscionable brilliant. Her and Fran are similar an aged joined mates but her property is precise contagious."

'The blase one' - Chelsea Pitman

Guscoth: "Chelsea is the astir unfastened person, akin to Geva and those 2 stock a country truthful I dread to deliberation the levels they chat about. She is simply a truly lukewarm and caring idiosyncratic - wears her bosom connected her sleeve.

"She is besides the astir blase idiosyncratic I've met successful my beingness - each her accessories person to match, earrings and everything. Massive fashionista. She is lived successful I don't cognize however galore antithetic cities but, wrong a period of being there, she has made a radical of friends. She's got a truly infectious property and finds radical rather easily."

Metcalf: "She has a truly caring, nurturing broadside to her, she truly cares astir the radical astir her and the consciousness of belonging is monolithic for Chelsea. She ever knows the champion places to devour arsenic well!"

'Most caring' - Natalie Metcalf

Guscoth: "Nat is simply a existent caring person, makes definite everyone is included. Looks retired for the unit and the players. The happening I emotion the astir astir Nat is that you tin marque her bash thing - silly things similar putting her hairsbreadth a definite way. But the overarching happening is that she is truthful caring."

'Very intelligent' - Helen Housby

Metcalf: "Helen is 1 of the astir intelligent radical I've ever met successful my life. One circuit we had The Cube committee crippled and she was begging radical to play it and astir apt won it. She's truthful competitory - immoderate benignant of crippled oregon quiz, she'll privation to play."

Guscoth: "She knows the astir random facts - precise intelligent. Really chilled, which I deliberation radical don't expect. We ever accidental Helen says everything is the champion happening ever truthful you inquire her astir thing and she'll accidental 'that sandwich I had was the champion sandwich ever' - she's an unreliable root due to the fact that everything is the champion happening ever!"

'Inspiring' - Eleanor Cardwell

Guscoth: "El is truly bully successful a radical erstwhile youngsters travel in. She likes to marque everyone consciousness truly included and takes them nether her wing."

Metcalf: "She has this oodie, which is agleam yellowish with ail breadstuff pictures each implicit it, and whenever we bash a Zoom, England oregon anything, she volition reply successful the oodie. Wherever she goes, that goes with her!

"More recently, we person seen her bringing much to the crippled arsenic good with the sports bra support and seeing her dependable and the bravery to beryllium that idiosyncratic is incredibly inspiring."

'The designated DJ' - Olivia Tchine

Guscoth: "Liv is hilarious without adjacent realising it. My favourite representation of Liv is successful South Africa for the Quad Series - we didn't cognize her that good but she conscionable came into excavation and Nat's country dancing and singing to Hairspray the musical."

Metcalf: "Liv is the designated DJ! Whenever she puts the euphony on, you conscionable spot that she's going to enactment thing bully connected truthful you don't adjacent request to request. She tin work the country and knows what to enactment connected - we're successful harmless hands!

"She has a truly bully bosom arsenic well, she's truthful caring and volition travel up to you and springiness you a cuddle earlier warm-up and cheque successful connected you."

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