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T20 International - Australia v Eng-land at BlundstoneArena, HobartAustralia InningsCWHITE lbw bWright . . . . . . 75AFINCH c Hales b Broad . . . . 52GMAXWELL c Bresnan b Bopara 20GBAILEY c Bresnan b Dernbach . . 14C LYNN not out . . . . . . . . 37DCHRISTIAN not out . . . . . . 6Sundries (1b, 6w, 2nb) . . . . . . 9FOURwickets for . . . . 213Fall: 106 (Finch), 134 (White), 157(Maxwell), 200 (Bailey).Bowling: S Broad 4-0-25-1, J Dernbach4-0-50-1 (1nb), T Bresnan 4-0-40-0(2w), R Bopara 3-0-26-1 (1w), D Briggs4-0-53-0 (3w), L Wright 1-0-18-1(1nb).Overs: 20England InningsAHALES lbw b Henriques . . . . 22MLUMB c Lynn b Coulter-Nile . . 9LWRIGHT b Henriques . . . . . . 9J ROOT c Finch b Coulter-Nile . . 32EMORGAN bMaxwell . . . . . . 4J BUTTLER c Muirheadb Coulter-Nile . . . . . . . . . . 20RBOPARA not out . . . . . . 65TBRESNAN bMuirhead . . . . 11SBROAD b Coulter-Nile . . . . 13J DERNBACH run out . . . . . . 5DBRIGGS not out . . . . . . . . 0Sundries (3lb, 7w) . . . . . . . . 10NINEwickets for . . . . . . 200Fall: 14 (Lumb), 44 (Wright), 45(Hales), 51 (Morgan), 98 (Buttler), 100(Root), 147 (Bresnan), 162 (Broad), 176(Dernbach).Bowling: G Maxwell 3-0-30-1, NCoulter-Nile 4-0-31-4, J Hazlewood4-0-46-0 (2w/6), M Henriques3-0-35-2, J Muirhead 4-0-34-1 (1w), DChristian 2-0-21-0.Overs: 20Umpires: S Fry (Aus), J Ward (Aus).Australia won by 13 runs to leadthe best-of-three series 1-0.

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ByDAVIDBENIUKin Hobart

CAMERON White justifiedhis return to the national sidewith a brilliant batting dis-play as a new-look Australiadowned England by 13 runslast night in their openingTwenty20 clash at Bellerive.

White smashed 75 from 43balls in his first appearancefor Australia since 2012, help-ing the home side to a formi-dable 4-213 after they won thetoss and batted.

The 30-year-old helped him-self to six boundaries andfour sixes as the home sidetook a 1-0 lead in the three-match T20 series.

White and opening partnerAaron Finch (52 from 31) puton 106 before debutant ChrisLynn showed his class withthree sixes in his late cameoof 33 from 19.

Nathan Coulter-Nile (4-30)and Moises Henriques (2-36)then did the damage with theball, a scintillating Ravi Bo-para (65 from 27) knock Eng-land’s only real highlight.

Skipper of unbeaten BigBash League outfit the Mel-bourne Stars, White lastplayed a T20 match for Aust-ralia against the West Indiesin the World Twenty20 tour-nament in Colombo in Oct-ober 2012. He last played aODI in 2011 and a Test in 2008.

Needing to equal their high-est T20 international total,England never really lookedin it, despite Bopara’s latefireworks.

They lost Michael Lumb (9from 6) to a meek prod to mid-off at 1-14.

Henriques struck twice inthe fifth over, removing twoof England’s dangermen.

He had Luke Wright (9 from10) playing on and then Alex

Hales (22 from 12) lbw, thetourists reduced to 3-45.

Maxwell bowled the in-form Eoin Morgan (4 from 4)at 4-51 and England were instrife.

They were as good as gonewhen Coulter-Nile had JosButtler (20 from 14) and JoeRoot (32 from 24) caught in thedeep in the 12th over at 6-100.

A flurry of seven sixes fromBopara wasn’t enough to re-vive their hopes and they fin-ished at 9-200.

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Pomsgivemen anAshes lesson

AUSTRALIA’S women’s Ashes dream is over afterEngland coasted to a nine-wicket Twenty20 victory inHobart yesterday. The tourists chased down theSouthern Stars’ 3-150with 13 balls to spare, skipperCharlotte Edwards starringwith an England record92no from 59 balls. Australia needed towin theopening T20match to keep themulti-format seriesalive but, after hopeswere raised by two straight one-daywins, England retained the Ashes.

Broncos’ Hunt for attackweapon

BRISBANE playmaker Ben Hunt is determined tokickstart his stalled career this season and helpreinvigorate the Broncos as a premiership force. Autility player for much of his career sincemaking hisNRL debut at 19, Hunt shapes as a key figure in theBroncos’ efforts to rebound from their worst season.Hunt is set to be called on by coach Anthony Griffin tospark the Broncos’ attack. Key recruit Ben Barba shapesas a crucial cog in the Broncos’ attack.

Folau primed for pivotal role

NOT content with being themost damaging runner inAustralian rugby,Waratahs fullback Israel Folau ispreparing to take his game to the next level by turninghimself into a ball-player in 2014. Folau is certain tostart the Super Rugby season in the No. 15, ending anythought theWaratahsmight have had to try him in thecentres. With his big frame and unique physical power,Folau proved in his debut season of rugby that he’sdifficult to stop at the best of times.

FOOTROT FLATS Women All Stars go on paradeFromBackPage

The AFLNT also will sendcopies of the game to AFL re-cruiters to give NT playersthe best possible chance at be-ing drafted.

AFLNT talent and educat-ion manager Tavis Perry saidplayers 18 and over can nomi-nate for the match, but theyare specifically targetingthose aged between 18 and 25under an AFL directive.

‘‘The AFL have told us that

girls aged over 25 are less like-ly to get drafted this year,’’ hesaid. ‘‘I’m happy to play thestrongest girls in our AllStars clash and then the AFLclubs (Melbourne and West-ern Bulldogs) can make theirown selections.’’

AFLNT is hoping to buildon the Territory’s inauguralYouth Girls Kickstart Cham-pionship victory, which show-cased the best talent aged 15-18from around the country.

Pendleswill leadMagpies

Pendlebury

COLLINGWOOD have an-nounced Scott Pendleburywill be the AFL club’s captainfor this season, replacingNick Maxwell.

Pendlebury, a dual Colling-wood best and fairest winner,will be joined in the club’s2014 leadership group byMaxwell, Travis Cloke, LukeBall, Steele Sidebottom,Lachlan Keeffe, NathanBrown and Clinton Young ina new-look eight-strong lead-ership group.

The move completes a re-markable sporting journeyfor the 26-year-old, who hadaccepted a basketball scholar-ship at the Australian Insti-tute of Sport and looked setfor a career shooting hoops.

Instead, a change of heartled to his drafting to Colling-wood and a highly successfulAFL career, which includesfour consecutiveAll-Australianappearances inthe past fourseasons.

Pendleburyhas long beentouted as a successor to Max-well, a five-year captain wholed the club in their 2010premiership year under for-mer coach Mick Malthouse.

Coach Nathan Buckley,himself the Magpies’ longest-serving captain, announcedhis leader at a function inMelbourne last night but theclub will formally unveil thenew leadership group atits Westpac Centre trainingbase today.

Meanwhile, West Coast de-fender Darren Glass has thechance to become the club’slongest-serving captain afterretaining his role as skipperfor a seventh straightAFL season.

Glass, 32, who took over asskipper at the end of 2007, hascaptained his side 121 times,placing him only 17 gamesshy of the benchmark set byJohn Worsfold.

Powerhouse opening batsman Aaron Finch unwinds for Australia in last night’s openingTwenty20 International against England at Blundstone Arena Picture: ROBERT PREZIOSO

Boof ends Rixon’s coaching inningsAUSTRALIAN head coach Dar-ren Lehmann says assistantcoach Steve Rixon no longerfits into his plans.Lehmann said yesterday

the departure of former Testgloveman Rixon was part ofbroader changes to theteam’s off-field structure.The news follows last

week’s announcement thatlegspin great Shane Warnewill act as a consultant to thesquad’s spin bowlers for theT20 series in South Africa inMarch, as skipper George

Bailey’s side prepares for theWorld T20 in Bangladesh laterthatmonth.‘‘I’ve taken the opportunity

to look at our current coach-ing structure and the levels ofsupport I feel we needmovinginto the future,’’ Lehmannsaid. ‘‘I’ve mentioned pre-viously, I believe our playerscan really benefit from morededicated skill-based training,which means more regularsupport from technical ex-perts to help work on specificareas of performance.’’

Lehmann, who took over ascoach for the 2013 Ashesseries in England, says hewants various specialist coa-ches and experts workingwith the teamwhen needed.Rixon, 59, played 13 Tests

for Australia and later coa-chedNewZealand.In 2013, Rixon said he had

been interested in possiblycoaching Sri Lanka but re-jected the role after the boardoffered financial terms de-scribed by Rixon as embar-rassingly low.