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Australia beat her team by 89 runs in their opening match in India, but the White Ferns captain was proud of the players' resilience.

Butcher is competing in his first major global event since winning the kayak cross gold medal in Paris last year.

The pair have been rewarded for huge rugby league seasons.

He only played the doomed effort against Australia because Rachin Ravindra needed stitches to a face wound he got at fielding practice.

The White Ferns were beaten by 89 runs in their opening World Cup game in Indore.

Auckland FC's Premiership winning head coach Steve Corica recognised with Team of the Decade role.

New Zealand remains alive at the FIFA under-20 men's football tournament in Chile.

The veteran White Fern believes the contrast in pitches across Sri Lanka and India opens up the number of contenders to become champions. Audio

A marathon meeting between embattled Silver Ferns coach Dame Noeline Taurua and Netball New Zealand is heading into a second day after no consensus was reached.

Danielle Aitchison has won gold in the 100m T36 final, taking New Zealand's medal tally at the games to three.

All Blacks XV coach Jamie Joseph admits the depth in some positions will be well tested on their Northern Hemisphere tour in November.

Owen Parker-Price and George Stanger have been named in the squad.

The All Blacks fifteen will play the Barbarians in Brentford and England A in Bath in November.

Australia ended the New Zealand U21 team's hopes of defending their World Youth Cup title when they outclassed the Kiwis 63-48.

The first Kiwi mixed eight had only two training rows in the lead-up to winning bronze at the world rowing champs.

Lisa Adams' opening throw was good enough to claim shot put gold at the World Para Athletics Championships.

Beaten by four wickets Bengaluru, the New Zealand side will head into the Cricket World Cup following back-to-back defeats.

Braxton Sorensen-McGee has burst onto the international stage this year, scoring a stat sheet-topping 11 tries during the World Cup tournament.

All is still to play for in the Rugby Championship, after the All Blacks toppled the Wallabies 33-24 at Eden Park to retain the Bledisloe Cup.

The Breakers are now 0-3 to start the season, despite Parker Jackson-Cartwright finishing with 18 points and five assists.

Former Black Caps coach Gary Stead is not being lost to New Zealand cricket.

India A reached their target with three balls remaining in a rain-affected match in Bengaluru.

Taylor and Welch brought back memories of the New Zealand's dominance in the coxless pair in the mid 2000s through Eric Murray and Hamish Bond who won six successive world champs.

The star player is one of two changes to the starting side for the Black Ferns' Rugby World Cup bronze medal match against France.

Harry Wilson will skipper the Wallabies in Auckland.