Sky Sport "Celebrates" Australia Day
In the afterglow of the Rugby League World Cup, SKY Sport, with a little help from Kiwibank, will be celebrating Australia Day in style on Monday 26 January.
In a true blue Kiwi sports fan tribute, SKY Sport 3 will showcase highlights from a selection of feel-good sports events where the Kiwi's have stood up to our 'West Island' cousins and proved victorious, as well as favourite international events where the Australians have crumbled under pressure and lost to the battling underdog.
So to remind us that the Australian's are human after all, SKY Sport celebrates the Great Sporting Nation's less than terrific sporting achievements with a salute to the Ozzie sport cheer 'Ozzie, Ozzie, Ozzie, io, io, oh dear
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SKY Sport 3 Monday 26th
5:30pm Cricket 2005 Ashes 2nd Test day 4.
Highlights.
England was well on their way to a series win and on this day the Boastful Australians were severely dealt to.
6:00pm Rugby 1996 All Black V Australia Tri nations Athletic Park
Highlights.
The First season of Tri Nations Rugby and a very cold and windy Wellington saw the Australians given a lesson on how to play rugby, resulting in an All Black win 46-6.
6:30pm Netball 2008 Silver Ferns V Australia 1st Test
Highlights.
The first match after Australia stole the 2007 World Championship from us and they were well and truly given a hiding.
7:00pm Cricket 2007 Chappell Hadlee ODI # 1 Wellington
Highlights.
A ten-wicket thumping by the Black Caps and the first step in taking the trophy from a more than cocky Baggy Green team.
7:30pm Rugby 2000 All Blacks V Australia (the Test made in Heaven) Sydney
Highlights.
If rugby was a piece of art then this game would be hung up in place of the Mona Lisa, it was just that good. 24-0 in 20 minutes and who could forget Jonah Lomu in the dying minute to seal Australia's fate, just magic!
8:00pm Cricket 2007 Chappell Hadlee ODI # 2 Eden park
Highlights.
Two shell shocked teams, following the Black Caps emphatic ten wicket win in the first match of the series at Wellington, turn up to Eden Park and what results is a record run chase of 340 and a Chappell-Hadlee victory to the Black Caps with five wickets in hand.
8:30pm League, 2008 Rugby League World Cup with Australian Commentary.
Full Replay.
The League game of the Century, for Kiwi fans that is, and what a way to round out the century celebrations with this fantastic win to the Kiwis. Here's another full replay of this magic game and this time with a special treat the expert Channel 9 Australia commentary, classic just for the despair in the voices as they realise 'their cup' is about to head across the Tasman.
10:30pm Cricket 2007 Chappell Hadlee ODI # 3 Hamilton
Highlights.
The Australians played for pride or to at least walk away with some dignity - but Brendon McCullum's fine 86 led New Zealand to a dramatic 3-0 whitewash over Australia in the 3rd ODI at Hamilton, banishing them back across the ditch to lick their wounds.
11:00pm Golf Augusta Masters 1996 Norman v Faldo
Highlights.
Greg Norman is one of only two players to have competed in - and, like Craig Wood, to have lost - play-offs in all four of the major championships. Perhaps the worst meltdown occurred at The Masters in 1996, where he blew a six-stroke lead in the final round and lost the tournament to Nick Faldo by five strokes, shooting a Sunday 78 to Faldo's 67. ESPN as part of their 25th-anniversary celebration, ranked Norman's 1996 Masters mishap as the third-biggest sports choke of the last 25 years.
