POLOCROSSE: After winning best player awards galore this season, Cunningham Polocrosse Club player Lauren Cant will fly out this morning to the Polocrosse World Cup in South Africa.

Once this year's cup on July 3-12 is over, the Warwick Polocrosse Club will start to gear up for the 2019 World Cup at Morgan Park.

Cant and assistant coach Kent Wells from the Warwick club are the Southern Downs connection in the Australian team which flies to Durban today.

While Cant is from Western Australia, she is in her second season with the Cunningham club in Queensland polocrosse.

The team will be based at Hillcrest near the polocrosse grounds at Shongweni.

"The teams will be allocated horses on Sunday from a pool for the World Cup," Wells said.

Games will be played on July 3-5 and on July 10-12.

The teams will have 90 minutes each day to work the 16 horses allocated to them.

Australia is in pool B with United Kingdom, Zimbabwe and Ireland.

Wells said Zimbabwe would be real hard after being runners-up last time.

While he said he expected reigning champions South Africa to win all their pool games at home and finish top of pool A, it was important for the Australians to have three wins and then meet the second-placed pool A team in the semi-final.

He has watched the play this season of Cant and fellow Queensland-based player Trent Collins.

"Lauren is playing unreal polocrosse," he said.

"In my opinion, she has been the best woman player at each carnival she has played this year and done well at positions one, two and three," he said.

"One (goal scorer) is her best position but she can play anywhere, I expect her to play at bit of one and a lot of two in the cup. It depends how the players match up with the horses."

Collins plays for the Tansey club and won horse and rider and best number 3 at the New South Wales championships a fortnight ago.

"He has been selected as a number two and three for the World Cup," Wells said.

DRAW:

July 3: Australia v UK 11am SA time

July 4: Australia v Ireland 9am

July 5: Australia v Zimbabwe 1pm

July 10: Semis, top team (1) from Pool A v 2 Pool B; 2 from Pool A v 1 Pool B

July 11: Play offs 5-8.

July 12: Finals day, play-offs for first and third