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  •   Home > News > Sports > Rugby

    Former All Blacks first-five Lima Sopoaga suggests Highlanders coach Jamie Joseph's people skills make him the best option to take over the national team job from Scott Robertson

    Former All Blacks first-five Lima Sopoaga suggests Highlanders coach Jamie Joseph's people skills make him the best option to take over the national team job from Scott Robertson


    India have beaten New Zealand by 48 runs in the opening T20 cricket international of their five-match World Cup build-up series at Nagpur.



    To second round Australian Tennis Open results from Melbourne Park.

    In the women's draw, Coco Gauff, Jasmine Paolini and Mirra Andreeva, the third, seventh and eighth seeds, have advanced.

    In the men's tournament, Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Zverev and Alex de Minaur, the top, third and sixth seeds, are through.



    The 38th America's Cup match will be contested from July 10 next year in Naples.



    Josh Burnett will don the race leader's orange jersey on the fifth stage of cycling's Tour of Southland.



    In Adelaide, Laurence Pithie sits fifth after the first stage of the Tour Down Under.



    The New Zealand women's hockey team have lost 2-1 to the United States in cold, wet and windy conditions at Dunedin.



    The second-ranked South East Melbourne Phoenix have beaten the seventh-placed Breakers 123-116 in ANBL basketball.

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     22 Jan: Former All Black Tony Brown has confirmed he intends to honour his contract as an assistant with South Africa, rather than make himself available for inclusion in any New Zealand coaching group
     22 Jan: Tony Brown is keeping his All Blacks coaching aspirations alive - just not now
     21 Jan: The Black Sticks women are vowing to capitalize on preparation time before August's hockey World Cup in Belgium and the Netherlands
     21 Jan: Black Sticks women's coach Phil Burrows is eager to see internal competition at this week's four-team international tournament in Dunedin
     21 Jan: The next All Blacks coach will begin their tenure against an under-strength French side on July 4
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