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Hockey World Cup 2010: Australia 2 Holland 1

Bystaff and agencies 650PM GMT eleven March 2010

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Australia degraded the Netherlands 2-1 on Thursday to validate for a third unbroken last opposite fortifying champions Germany in the men"s domain hockey World Cup.

The Kookaburras available their 10th win in a row over the Dutch in vital competitions to set up Saturday"s pretension strife in between the tip dual teams in the sport.

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Luke Doerner and Glenn Turner scored once in each half, prior to Taeke Taekema converted a chastisement cadence twelve mins from the finish to slight the margin.

Doerner and Taekema, the dual heading chastisement dilemma specialists, head the goal-scorers list in the contest with 7 goals apiece.

Australian physical education instructor Ric Charlesworth, who played in his team"s sole World Cup-winning group in 1986, hoped it will be "third time lucky" opposite the Germans, who won the last dual World Cup finals opposite Australia in 2002 and 2006, prior to adding the bullion award at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

"We learnt from the progressing mistakes and stepped up the game. Now I idea we fool around a serve step up in the final.

"Germany are really unchanging in their diversion and have high peculiarity players around the field. They don"t have any weaknesses, but we have to find a little in the final.

"Who knows, it could be third time propitious for us."

Earlier, four-time champions Pakistan slumped to an annoying 3-2 better by Canada on Thursday to finish last for the initial time in the sport"s premier event.

Scott Tupper scored a golden idea dual mins prior to the finish of extra-time in the play-off for the 11-12 positions to palm Canada their initial win in the tournament.

The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) reacted to the better by sacking the group management, together with physical education instructor Asif Bajwa and physical education instructor Shahid Ali Khan, and the preference committee.

In a apart statement, the PHF"s media physical education instructor Shahzad Malik pronounced the complete 18-man patrol had offering to "retire from general hockey".

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