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Sporting Digest: Rugby League

DEAN SAMPSON, the Castleford prop forward, was banned for four matches by a disciplinary committee in Leeds yesterday, following an incident during the Premiership final 12 days ago in which Wigan's Kelvin Skerrett suffered a double fracture of the jaw.

ST HELENS, originally left out of the touring schedule after finishing eighth in the Stones Bitter Championship, are to entertain the Australians on 16 November, four days before the third Test.

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