Gems off to the UK
Tadious Manyepo
Sports Reporter
ZIMBABWE national senior netball side, the Gems have left the country for the UK where they will play 11 matches in different competitions including the Celtic International Series.
The team took off at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in the afternoon aboard an Ethiopian Airlines aeroplane via Addis Ababa.
They will arrive in England on Thursday morning at around 6:30 am before they connect to Glasgow, Scotland.
The tour is divided into two segments starting with a tri-nations world ranking contest running in Glasgow and Cardiff from November 1-6.
Zimbabwe, Scotland and Wales will battle it out in this meet while the second installment of the competition will see the Gems, Welsh Feathers, Scottish Thistles and Northern Ireland Warriors battling for the Celtic Cup in Glasgow from November 7-10.
Then they will play England in an international friendly on November 12 before returning home the day after.
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