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The XXXX Queensland Bulls will confront a full-strength NSW Blues teamin the top of the table ING Cup match at the Sydney Cricket Ground onSunday.

Australian captain Steve Waugh will lead a full-strength NSW team for the first - and perhaps last - time this season in a star-studded ING Cup showdown with Queensland at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday.

Just where do New Zealander's cricketers rate in the world

The respective attitudes of competing skippers, Australia's Steve Waugh and New Zealand's Stephen Fleming were praised in newspapers on both sides of the Tasman as both teams made a silk purse out of a sow's ear of their rain affected first Test at

Australian Darren Lehmann has hinted that his likely appointment as captain of English county team Yorkshire may be no more than a short-term measure.

Australian captain Steve Waugh admitted one blow from New Zealand's Chris Cairns was the difference between a loss and a draw for his team during a dramatic day of high stakes in the first Test at the Gabba today.

Frustration with the rain, admiration for Chris Cairns' approach, a welcome return from Brett Lee and the slight possibility of some remarkable Australian cricket still producing a result were offered in newspaper assessment of the fourth day of the

New Zealand gained one of the plums of world cricket, the staging of the 16-team ICC Under-19 World Cup event, more or less by popular acclaim

Dion Nash is out of the tour of Australia and will be replaced by Canterbury's Shane Bond

South Australia has surged to a powerful innings and 40 run win over a bruised and battered Tasmania on the fourth and final day of the teams' Pura Cup clash here in Hobart today.

New Zealand's top order batting frailties were exposed again by Australian Jason Gillespie on another rain-affected at the Gabba in Brisbane today

On a day dominated by the rain, the newspapers of Australasia concentrated on Adam Gilchrist's fourth Test century, in the first Australia-New Zealand Test at the Gabba in Brisbane yesterday

Ryan Campbell proved attack is the best form of defence when he followed his instincts and smashed an unbeaten 72 to force a Pura Cup cricket draw with Queensland at the WACA today.

The rain arrived about an hour too late to save Victoria here today as New South Wales scored outright points in their Pura Cup cricket match at Punt Rd.

New Zealand's failure to maintain the first day-last session strike power in the first Test at the Gabba was the feature of newspaper coverage of the rain-affected second day's play

Queensland had its top three to thank for first innings points after a middle order collapse on day three of the Pura Cup cricket match against Western Australia at the WACA today.

Rain should ruin any chance of an outright result in the Pura Cup cricket match here between Victoria and New South Wales.

The following players have been selected in a squad of 13, to represent Western Australia, at the National U/19 Championships in Newcastle, from 3rd to the 14th of December 2001.

Fans at today's First Test match between Australia and New Zealand willbe entitled to either exchange their ticket or seek a full refundfollowing the washout of the third day.

Australia's vaunted bowling attack moves onto centre stage in the first Test with New Zealand at the Gabba over the next two days