Wallabies should take a leaf out of cricketers books: Gregan

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2004

PARIS (AFP) — For Australia's rugby team to win all their matches on their autumn tour they will need to follow the example of their all-conquering cricketing compatriots, said their captain George Gregan.

The 31-year-old scrum-half said that the rugby players had to adapt to the different conditions like the cricketers had done in beating Sri Lanka and India in recent test series.

"The cricket coaching staff visited us and told us that their solution to going to the sub continent and winning was to play in the same style as their opponents," said Gregan, who is set to move to within one cap of Nick Farr-Jones' national record of 36 tests as captain when he leads out the Wallabies against France next Saturday.

"If it worked for them then it can work for us....