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Wallabies coach Robbie Deans named James O’Connor as his preferred playmaker in a 25-man squad to face the British and Irish Lions, while leaving the selection door open for the omitted Quade Cooper and Kurtley Beale.
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Australia rugby selectors picked three uncapped players and recalled prop Pek Cowan in a 26-man squad for the two-match tour of the U.K.
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Australia retained Berrick Barnes at fly-half and omitted Quade Cooper for this week’s Rugby Championship opener against world champion New Zealand. Juan Martin Hernandez will make his first start in more than three years for Argentina’s tournament debut in South Africa.
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David Pocock will captain an Australia team featuring five rookies in its one-off rugby Test against Scotland in Newcastle on June 5.
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Argentina named an unchanged starting team for the third straight match as the Pumas seek to cap their Rugby Championship debut with a breakthrough win against injury- depleted Australia.
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The Queensland Reds were rewarded for winning the Super Rugby title with 15 players called up to the national squad as Australia seeks to take their momentum all the way to this year’s World Cup.
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Australia named the following team to play New Zealand in the second round of the Rugby Championship on Saturday, Aug. 25 at Auckland’s Eden Park:
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Australia named the following team to play New Zealand in the opening match of the Rugby Championship on Saturday, Aug. 18 at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium:
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New Zealand hooker Keven Mealamu will become the third All Black to play 100 Tests in this weekend’s Bledisloe Cup rugby finale against Australia, which had to make its second injury-enforced change for the match.
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Australia rugby union selectors named the following 40-man Wallabies squad for the July 17 Test against Samoa in Sydney and the July 23-Aug. 27 Tri-Nations tournament. The squad will be trimmed to 30 for the World Cup.
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