Tag: Australia
Cameron King is a name you should already know. King is the definition of a superstar in the making. Groomed for years to be a future Australian captain. But instead of 2011 being his year, it turned into the year from hell.
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The Australian cricket loving community are in a fantasy world where we are still the team we once were. We are a shell of our former selves and people need to wake up. Sacking the second greatest batsman this country has ever seen is not the answer.
Ricky Ponting is one of the best. He is still one our of best. So why are we showing him no love and trying to kick him out the back door?
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The glittering career of Darren Lockyer came to an end over the weekend with the Australians sending the champion out the right way with a 30-8 win in the Gillette Four Nations final against England at Elland Road.
England fought for everything they got and received a penalty try on half-time to impressive winger Ryan Hall. This was after Sam Thaiday touched down for the tourists.
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Surely now, Ricky Ponting's glittering career is over.Overnight, he was dismissed for another duck in the first innings of the second test against the Proteas in South Africa. His second duck of the series couldn't have come at at worse time as Australia went from 0-174 to all out for 296, which is only 30 runs better than the South Africans.Ponting has much been in decline since 2008, and during his last 42 innings, has only made one test century.
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England will battle Australia in the Gillette Four Nations Final after the English upset World Champions New Zealand on the weekend.
England flyers Tom Briscoe and Ryan Hall both scored tries in the corner with Hall once again showing why he is one of the best wingers in the world after another tremendous touchdown.
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Australia’s triumphant return to Wembley came at a cost on the weekend with the world’s greatest player, Billy Slater, snapping his collarbone in the Aussie’s 36-20 victory over England.
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With two matches already played in the 2011 Rugby League Four Nations, it is the same old familiar feelings that permeate through the nostrils of the sport, that the Australians are once again about to go home with the trophy!
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The international season is in full swing with the Gillette Four Nations getting underway in the United Kingdom over the weekend.
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Will Genia has maintained he is full of confidence ahead of this weekend's semi-final against New Zealand, the scrum-half claiming he is in doubt that his team can progress to the final. The 23-year old has continued his fine form so far in 2011 into this World Cup, and will be one of the Aussie's key main in this weekend's clash against the All Blacks.
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Two nations with a sporting history stretching back more than a century, a home team playing at a supposedly impenetrable fortress, a couple of suspect first five-eighths and a pair of rival coaches whose legacies could be cemented on the outcome of this one game.
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Video: STORM 2012 DEPTH CHART
