New Zealand 52
d Australia 47
Australian Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander has blamed the "unacceptable" errors her side committed in their shock World Cup loss to the Silver Ferns on the early stages of the tournament. 
The Diamonds' five-goal defeat was riddled with errors and a vastly different performance to that against Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados. Those two sides offered minimal pressure compared to the might of New Zealand and, as a result, Australia's clutch options were exposed.
Alexander put the errors down to "that nervousness, not preparing well enough and being worried about the result instead of getting in that moment and doing the things they need to do at that moment", and made it clear a repeat would be unlikely. "It's not a shock because it's such early stages in the tournament," Alexander said of the defeat. "It always takes a little while to warm into a tournament and get your flow going.
"I would have thought the type of errors we made were very forced and there were some unforced ones that were unacceptable."
The worst thing about Australia's unforced errors was that they came on the back of their most productive work.
Captain Laura Geitz made the intercept of the day in the third quarter, charging from out of nowhere to make a clean take. She then passed to Julie Corletto, a seasoned campaigner known for her ability to perform under pressure, who threw a rushed pass at Kim Green's ankles.
Corletto, however, said such "basic, silly errors" were an easy fix.
"There certainly was [plenty of errors] and that's so much that we can control," Corletto said. "That's something Lisa addressed at half-time so we need to make sure we go back to basics."
During the same quarter, Caitlin Bassett leaped and dived over the line to catch a rebound but passed to an unmarked Silver Ferns player. Minutes later Natalie Medhurst passed back to no one and watched the ball trickle out.
It was a nightmare quarter from a handling perspective, but thankfully for the Diamonds, the margin did not blow out by as much as it probably should have.
Geitz admitted her team could ill-afford to make errors like that against the world No.2 side.
"There were a lot of uncharacteristic things that we did out on court, that was probably the most disappointing part of it all," Geitz said. "We were our own worst enemy out there at times."