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All Blacks win
with late effort
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SYDNEY: All Blacks centre Malakai
Fekitoa scored a last-minute try
which Colin Slade converted to give
the world champions a dramatic 2928 victory over Australia in the third Bledisloe
Cup test at Lang Park in Brisbane yesterday.
The Wallabies looked destined to emerge from
two weeks of turmoil over the Kurtley Beale saga
with a famous victory until Fekitoa crossed for New
Zealand’s fourth try, which replacement flyhalf
Slade calmly converted.
Winger Cory Jane and hooker Dane Coles scored
for the visitors in the first-half and scrumhalf Aaron Smith’s 69th minute try kept the All Blacks in a
game they had been chasing all night.
Tries from halfbacks Nick Phipps and Bernard
Foley in the first-half and one after the break from
winger Adam Ashley-Cooper, playing in his 100
test, were Australia’s reward for a performance of
rare intensity but ultimately it was not enough.
The Bledisloe Cup was already lost for another
year but this could have been a win the Wallabies
would have cherished after defeats to South Africa
and Argentina in their last two outings and the row
which could see Beale kicked out of Australian rugby next week.
In the first of their last four home tests played in
dry conditions, they kept the ball in hand as they
ran at the All Blacks all night in front of a crowd
of 45,186.
The All Blacks were also coming off a loss after their defeat at the hands of the Springboks in
Johannesburg two weeks ago and were determined
to avoid losing two tests in a row for the first time
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since 2011.
The game started at a frenetic pace with the home
side needing some brilliant defence from centre Tevita Kuridrani and flanker Scott Fardy to keep the
world champions from opening the score in the first
10 minutes.
The Wallabies were also looking to run the ball,
though, and Christian Lealiifano found a gap for
a 30 metre break up the centre in the 12th minute
and a couple of phases later Phipps went over from
close range.
Converted
Foley converted but the All Blacks counter-punch
took a matter of seconds, centre Conrad Smith
claiming the re-start and starting a move which saw
number eight Kieran Read putting Jane over in the
corner.
Captain Michael Hooper handed the ball to Foley
after 32 minutes to give the Wallabies a 10-7 lead
with his first penalty but again the All Blacks hit
straight back.
Australia appeared to have their defence in place
as the ball swept down the New Zealand backline
but hooker Coles dummied twice and charged
through a huge gap to touch down.
Beauden Barrett missed an easy conversion and
this time it was Australia with an immediate response, Foley pouncing from close range to dot
down in the corner and give his side a 15-12 halftime lead.
Three minutes after the break and they had extended the lead to 22-12 with a converted try from
n All Blacks’ Kieran Read attacks the Wallabies
winger Adam Ashley-Cooper - his 29th for Australia as he became the sixth Wallaby to win 100 caps.
The Wallabies had made
their way to the All Blacks line
in five and 10-metre bursts beBRISBANE: Ewen McKenzie sendraw and 10 defeats in his 22 tests in charge.
fore Ashley-Cooper cut inside
sationally quit as Australia coach
Last week he was forced to deny speculahis marker to touch down in
yesterday after a 28-29 defeat to
tion of an intimate relationship with a female
the right-hand corner.
New Zealand and following intense
staff member at the centre of disciplinary
Barrett cut the deficit to sevspeculation over player discontent and his
proceedings facing back Kurtley Beale.
en points with a penalty after 54
private life.
Beale has been suspended following an onminutes but Foley kicked his
Australia rugby boss Bill Pulver decried a
flight argument with the staffer and claims
second four minutes later and
“character assassination” of the embattled coach that he sent offensive text messages about her.
from the ensuing re-start All
as his resignation threw the team into turmoil
She has since quit the Wallabies set-up.
Blacks replacement Patrick Tuahead of next year’s Rugby World Cup.
ipulotu was sin-binned for tackReplacement
McKenzie said he had planned to quit
ling Rob Simmons in the air.
regardless of the result of yesterday’s game in
Pulver said he did not ask McKenzie to
It was the All Blacks who
Brisbane, which the Wallabies were seconds
resign and had not approached a replacegot the next score, Smith getfrom winning before Malakai Fekitoa’s lastment, although he hopes to sign a new coach
ting his reward for a quickgasp converted try.
before the team leaves for its European tour
ly taken penalty close to the
“It’s been a disappointing time for a numnext Friday.
home try line to reduce the
ber of reasons. I’m not going to go into the
“Australia has lost a terrific coach and a
lead to 25-22.
details, you guys can work it out,” McKenzie
great bloke, and it is extremely disappointing
Replacement scrumhalf Nic
told reporters.
that a Wallaby coach feels he needs to resign
White had the crowd on their
“I’ve been unhappy with a bunch of things
from his position particularly when you look
feet when he extended it by
and the easiest thing for me is to exit stage
at the way they played tonight,” Pulver said.
another three points three minleft. I’ll leave you guys to speculate or ponder,
The resignation overshadowed New Zeautes from time but you write
I’ll write a chapter in my book.”
land’s thrilling win when Fekitoa denied him
New Zealand off at your perMcKenzie was highly regarded when he
a winning send-off in what would have been
il and the All Blacks pounded
n
McKenzie
during
yesterday’s
took over from Robbie Deans in July last year Australia’s first victory over the All Blacks
away until Fekitoa found a
match
but he leaves a mixed legacy of 11 wins, one
since 2011.
gap.
Wallabies coach McKenzie quits
GOLF
Leading scores after the third round of the
Hong Kong Open (par 70):
199 - Marcus Fraser (AUS) 67-67-65; 200
- Scott Hend (AUS) 67-66-67; 201 - Mark
Foster (ENG) 67-68-66, Jbe Kruger (RSA)
66-69-66, Angelo Que (PHI) 65-69-67; 202
- Javier Colomo (ESP) 68-70-64, Jyoti Randhawa (IND) 64-70-68, Cameron Smith (AUS)
68-65-69, Ernie Els (RSA) 66-65-71, Raphael
Jacquelin (FRA) 66-67-69; 203 - Kevin Phelan
(IRE) 69-67-67, Adam Groom (AUS) 67-68-68.
Leading second-round scores on Friday in the
US PGA Tour Shriners Hospitals Open in Las
Vegas (US unless noted, par-71):
132 - Andrew Putnam 67-65, Russell Knox
(SCO) 65-67; 133 - Andrew Svoboda 66-67,
Tony Finau 68-65; 134 - Spencer Levin 71-63,
Webb Simpson 69-65, George McNeill 71-63,
Ben Martin 68-66, Bo Van Pelt 66-68, Scott
Piercy 67-67, Martin Laird (SCO) 64-70, Wes
Roach 67-67; 135 - Kevin Kisner 70-65,
Brandt Snedeker 67-68, Tim Clark (RSA) 6867; 136 - Bill Lunde 68-68, Jason Bohn 68-68,
Nick Taylor (CAN) 71-65, Hudson Swafford
69-67, Cameron Percy (AUS) 68-68, David
Hearn (CAN) 70-66.
European Tour World Match Play Championship in Kent, England:
Quarter-finals: George Coetzee (South Africa)
bt Patrick Reed (US) 2 and 1; Mikko Ilonen
(Finland) bt Victor Dubuisson (France) by 2
holes; Joost Luiten (Netherlands) bt Pablo
Larrazabal (Spain) 6 and 5; Henrik Stenson
(Sweden) bt Jonas Blixt (Sweden) by 2 holes.
ICE HOCKEY
National Hockey League matches on
Friday:
Edmonton
Toronto
Anaheim
Winnipeg
Buffalo
Columbus
0
1
2
0
0
3
Vancouver
Detroit
Minnesota
Nashville
Florida
Calgary
TENNIS
ATP Stockholm Open (x denotes seeded
player):
Semi-finals: Tomas Berdych (CZE x1) bt
Matthias Bachinger (GER) 7-6 (9/7), 6-4;
Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x2) bt Bernard Tomic
(AUS) 6-3, 7-5
Kremlin Cup:
2
4
1
2
1
2
Women’s singles (semi-finals):6-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) bt Katerina
Siniakova (Czech Republic) 6-2 6-2; Irina
Begu (Romania) bt 4-Lucie Safarova (Czech
Republic) 7-6(5) 1-6 6-3.
Vienna Open:
Men’s singles (semi-finals): 1-David Ferrer
(Spain) bt 4-Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany)
6-3 2-6 7-6(3); 2-Andy Murray (Britain) bt
Viktor Troicki (Serbia) 6-4 6-3.
WTA Luxembourg Open (x denotes seeding):
Final: Annika Beck (GER) bt Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE x4) 6-2, 6-1.
1 22 30 33 40 47
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Clarke flops
again as team
lose match
SHARJAH:
Skipper
Michael Clarke failed
again as Australia lost
a four-day warmup
game against Pakistan ‘A’ by
153 runs in Sharjah yesterday.
Clarke, who is recovering
from a hamstring injury and
needed some batting practice
ahead of Wednesday’s first Test
against Pakistan in Dubai, managed just five off as many balls
before he was bowled by leftarm paceman Rahat Ali on the
fourth and final day at Sharjah
stadium.
Clarke made just 10 in the
first innings but not much can
be read into Australia’s loss as
the match was meant for practice only.
Australia, chasing 339 to win
were bowled out for 185 in their
second innings with paceman
Mohammad Talha (3-32) and
left-arm spinner Raza Hasan
(3-60) destroying Australia’s
plans for some useful practice.
Pakistan ‘A’ had made 305-8
declared and 306-3 declared in
their two innings.
Australia had made 273-8
declared in their first knock.
Hughes promised a different
showing in the Tests.
“It’s good to see them going
out there and performing well,”
said Hughes of Pakistan ‘A.’
“But it’s going to be a different
story and a different pressure in
a Test match.”
Pakistan ‘A’ captain Asad
Shafiq said it was good to see
Clarke out cheaply.
Brief scores: Pakistan ‘A’ 3058 dec (Asad Shafiq 108 not out; S.
O’Keefe 3-76) and 306-3 declared
(Babar Azam 114 not out, Haris Sohail 103 not out; N Lyon 2-49)
Australia 273-8 dec (A Doolan
104, S Smith 58) and Australia 185
all out (P Hughes 65, P Siddle 41, M
Marsh 35 ; Mohammad Talha 3-32;
Raza Hasan 3-60).
Dunk hammers
double century
SYDNEY:
Tasmania state opener Ben
Dunk scored the first
double century in Australian domestic limited-overs
cricket with 229 not out in a
losing cause yesterday against
Queensland.
Exactly 800 runs were scored
in the match at North Sydney
Oval, where the close boundaries often lead to high-scoring
games.
Dunk’s total, leading Tasmania to 398 for one in its 50
overs, was the highest in the
46-year history of the competition. It eclipsed the previous
record individual score of 197
set by New South Wales opener
David Warner at the same venue last season.
The 27-year-old Queenslandborn Dunk had 13 sixes in his
157-ball innings. Dunk and
fellow opener Tim Paine (125)
also set a record with 277 for
any wicket in a domestic match.
Queensland, however, came
back to win by seven wickets,
scoring 402 for three. Usman
Khawaja picked up 166 runs
and Chris Hartley added 142,
with a 280-run partnership between the pair.
India’s Virender Sehwag,
who scored 219 against the
West Indies on December 8,
2011 at Indore, India, is the
leading individual run-scorer in
a 50-over international match.