Netball is one of the biggest team sports in Australia with more than 1.2 million men, women and children playing each week, underpinned by a nationwide footprint of more than 4,000 community clubs.

On a balmy weekday evening, about two dozen women aged between 15 and 80 step onto a netball court in South Australia's Riverland. Pink and black bibs are divvied out as the players take their places.