Netball Australia will be the first worldwide to use newly developed indoor player tracking technology to gain a competitive advantage ahead of this year’s World Youth Netball Championships, 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2015 Netball World Cup in Sydney.

Victoria University PhD student Alice Sweeting will use the Australian developed technology, called RF Tracking, which provides real time information such as distance, velocity and positioning, with the Australian national netball squads, including the Australian Diamonds.

Agreement has been reached between Mercedes and Vodafone McLaren Mercedes for Paddy Lowe to join the team on 3 June.

Paddy will strengthen Mercedes in the role of Executive Director (Technical) and will work closely with Team Principal, Ross Brawn; Executive Director (Business), Toto Wolff; and the team's senior technical management. As Team Principal, Ross Brawn will retain overall responsibility for technical and sporting matters.

Two rounds of relative disappointment were reversed this weekend as three of the four South African teams in action won their Vodacom Super Rugby matches against Australasian opposition.

In the process the Vodacom Bulls moved up to second spot on the overall log, although they made very hard work of recording a try-scoring bonus point in their 35-18 win over the struggling Highlanders in Pretoria on Saturday.

The MTN Golden Lions won the Vodacom Cup for a record fifth time when they beat the Steval Pumas by 42-28 in a highly entertaining final at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit on Friday evening. It was the second successive season that the visiting team won the final after DHL Western Province beat GWK Griquas in Kimberley last year.

By winning the Vodacom Cup for the fifth time, the MTN Golden Lions are now the most successful team in the 16 year history of this competition. But it took them some time to do this – their last series success came in 2004.