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Balaban has also failed to feature in any of Croatia's World Cup warm-up matches.
South Africa play Bulgaria in a World Cup warm-up match in Soweto's Orlando Stadium on Monday.
Apart from last August's pre-World Cup warm-up defeat, Ireland have won the last seven Six Nations clashes.
All three are in South Africa and I'm sure we'll be involved in the World Cup warm-up squad.
France won the World Cup warm-up games against England but the void has diminished - and the English have grown in confidence.
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It was far from vintage Ireland against a team that only a month ago conceded more than 100 points against South Africa in a World Cup warm-up.
Then the team plays in the Gold Cup, a tournament important to U.S. international hopes (the winner gets a spot in the Confederations Cup, a World Cup warm-up).
Leicester centre Dan Hipkiss, who made his debut in the first World Cup warm-up Test against Wales, makes the cut, as does Jamie Noon after a strong display against France.
Henson last played for Wales as a replacement in the 31-0 loss in Australia last June, missing out on the later World Cup warm-ups and selection for the tournament itself.
Saadane's decision to delay his team's first World Cup warm-up until just a fortnight before kick-off now appears to have been misguided as his team looked rusty and disorganised in Dublin.
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And England have also announced their World Cup warm-up matches with 2011 fixtures against Wales, home and away on 6 and 13 August, followed by a clash with Ireland in Dublin on 27 August.
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Last year South Africa beat Madagascar 1-0 in Durban in a World Cup warm-up and then narrowly edged the islanders in a penalty shootout in a Cosafa Castle Cup quarter-final tie played at Port Elizabeth.
Wembley will host a rugby union game between Guinness Premiership teams Saracens and Harlequins on Saturday and fears have been expressed that the pitch will again be in poor condition for the FA Cup decider on 15 May and the England football team's World Cup warm-up match against Mexico on 24 May.
And with the FA Cup final between Chelsea and Portsmouth to be played at the venue on 15 May - as well as three Football League play-off finals, the Blue Square Premier play-off final, FA Trophy and FA Vase finals and England's World Cup warm-up match against Mexico during the month - Wembley Stadium announced on Sunday that work had begun on a new surface.
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India always stood for friendship and extends warm hands to the whole world.
The triumph secures Japan an automatic place at the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil -- a warm-up for the World Cup proper a year later.
The report says that on the evidence the MPs saw no reason to think the scientists dishonest or their science besmirched, or to doubt the consensus among climate scientists that humans are warming the world and will warm it further.
They were beaten 3-0 by the Republic of Ireland in their first warm-up match for the World Cup.
Another two sessions would take place in Chennai but there is no time for a warm-up match before facing world cricket's in-form nation.
My aim is to try and play the first warm-up game of the World Cup which is still two and a half to three weeks away.
Meanwhile, captain John Terry conceded that there had been "some plusses, but also some negatives" from their final warm-up game before the World Cup qualification campaign begins.
While bemoaning Ahmadinejad's warm reception, she said that the world leaders were probably just being diplomatic.
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