Azalea Sinclair

Azalea Sinclair, born Azalea Marguerite Clark in 1930, is a former New Zealand netball player who grew up in the Kaiapoi area north of Christchurch. She played in the forward third of the court for the Canterbury provincial team and in 1949 was praised for her amazing skill at shooting. In 1948 she was chosen as goal shoot for the New Zealand side in the first Test against the touring Australian team at Forbury Park in Dunedin, a match played under international seven-a-side rules that were unfamiliar to New Zealanders then used to nine-a-side play. Australia won 27 to 16, and it was her only appearance for New Zealand, because the three-Test team was chosen on a regional basis. She married the cricketer Ian Sinclair and in 2018 tossed the coin at a New Zealand and South Africa Test in Tauranga.