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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West Indies&#39; Australian coach Bennett King is relishing the prospect of facing the world&#39;s best side Australia in his first tournament in charge.
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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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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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Australia need just one wicket to claim victory over New Zealand in the second Test in Adelaide. The tourists had lunch on day five on 243 for nine, chasing 464 to win - a Test record for a team batting last
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MARK COLVIN: Melbourne - Australia&#39;s home of Rugby Union. Doesn&#39;t sound quite right, does it? And indeed this afternoon the Australian Rugby Union decided that the AFL-mad Victorian capital was not ready to
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The country isn't ready for another football league.
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ATHENS -- As you saw yesterday, they&#39;re fighting back now. Not with the world, but with themselves. When you&#39;ve been humiliated at your own game, ridiculed and laughed at back home and can&#39;t intimidate Australia anymore, someone&#39;s bound to mope.
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A growing number of Australians think Iraq war is not worth it, but many say Australian troops should stay there as long as necessary, according to a latest poll.
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WAYNE Arthurs and Todd Woodbridge struggled yesterday to complete Australia&#39;s 3-0 Davis Cup whitewash of Morocco in Perth. The win secured Australia&#39;s place in the 16-nation world group for next
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Australians voted in parliamentary elections Saturday with Prime Minister John Howard and his Labor Party challenger in a virtual dead heat, following a campaign that focused more on the economy and social programs than on Howard's decision to send troops to Iraq.
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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?
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THE resilience of this Australian team is remarkable. To a man, there is a steeliness of resolve and a pride that overwhelms, even intimidates, an opponent.
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The Champions Trophy, despite still being at the pool stage, reaches its knockout phase when world champions Australia meet New Zealand at the Oval on Thursday.
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The Australian Football League Grand Final between Brisbane Lions and Port Adelaide on Saturday marks an epoch for Australia&#39;s favorite spectator sport.
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Australia will be looking to prey on the anxieties of Pakistan&#39;s batsmen when the second Test gets begins in Melbourne on Boxing Day.
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Bangalore, Oct 5. (PTI):The ultimate tussle of contemporary Test cricket begins here tomorrow as Australia launch a &quot;well-planned&quot; mission to conquer the &#39;Final Frontier&quot; and record their first series win on Indian soil in 35 years.