Australians crave real contest
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Australia duly won the second Test in Adelaide by 213 runs, a margin New Zealand might well have settled for when they were reeling at 34 for four the previous afternoon.
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There was a fierce and fascinating contest played out here yesterday but only between two rival sets of Australia supporters, the internet-roused travelling fans from the Fanatics and Waving the Flag collectives, to see who could deafen the greater number
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Australia&#39;s cricketers are hungry for some action and ravenous to get stuck into New Zealand&#39;s one day team at The Oval, captain Ricky Ponting said on Wednesday.
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Australian Alicia Molik is a match away from taking on Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova for the Zurich Challenge title. Molik, Australia&#39;s Olympic silver medallist, first must beat local favourite and 10th
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Top-ranked Argentina booked their berth  in the women's hockey semi-finals at the Athens Olympics on  Friday but defending champions Australia now face an obstacle  course to qualify for the medal matches.
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Australia have won three World Cups but have come up short in the Champions Trophy, a failure that skipper Ricky Ponting wants his team to redress in this month's fifth edition in India.
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England must win in Perth to retain genuine ambitions of hanging onto the Ashes.
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Australia are 15 for one chasing a target of 126 for victory in the second Test against Pakistan in Melbourne. The tourists began the day at the crease on just 85 for five in their second innings and were wiped out before lunch on day four.
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AS Australia ends its woefully lopsided Test series against New Zealand with victory at the Adelaide Oval today, there is only one piece of good news for fans - it&#39;s free to get in.
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Australian firefighters are battling to limit the damage caused by the season's first bushfires.
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Despite having won 10 out of 11 tests so far this year, England are still a long way from being the best team in the world. Arch-rivals Australia hold sway at the
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The front line of Australia&#39;s war on terror continues to be fought on Indonesian soil. Last week&#39;s bomb blast outside
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Just days before the team&#39;s Confederations Cup playoff against Australia on Saturday, the Solomons&#39; 465,000 people who live on a chain of 992 mountainous islands 2,250 kilometers (1,400 miles) northeast of Sydney are focusing on the opening match in the
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HAVING crossed India&#39;s last frontier and plucked the hapless Kiwis, a bigger challenge for Australia now lies in the path of a hurtling Rawalpindi Express.
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Not since Australia beat South Africa in the 1999 World Cup semi-finals has there been such a southern hemisphere takeover of this stadium and the All Blacks took the opportunity to throw down a gauntlet to next year&#39;s Lions.
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SYDNEY: Australia and Pakistan have been involved in some classic cricketing confrontations but the spin doctors have their work cut out this time in trying to generate any real hype in the build-up to their Test series.
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THIS time last year the nation was all atwitter at the prospect of the Brisbane Lions winning three AFL premierships in a row. Could they?