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Theyre renowned for their pace and skill but Australias women also showed theyre up for the physical battle to make a powerful statement in rugby sevens Olympic debut.The top-ranked Aussies underlined their gold medal favouritism by dominating their two opening day pool matches, scoring 15 unanswered tries in the Rio heat to seal a quarter-final berth on Sunday.While a third pool game against the USA is to come, the world series champions are almost certain to play Spain in the last eight and avoid arch-rivals New Zealand in Mondays semi-finals.Australia were always expected to easily swat aside regional qualifier Colombia, and did so 53-0 in the biggest victory of the day, but they also outclassed Fiji 36-0 in a six-try shutout.Fiji had shown their power game could unruffle stronger teams with an early 12-7 upset of USA but Tim Walshs side happily took up the challenge and threw it back.Going into the game we expected some shooters, some high tackles, some late hits, coach Walsh said.I thought we nullified Fijis strength and really played to ours.They were ready for a physical battle, and thats the way it is going to be from here on in.Leading challengers New Zealand, Canada and Great Britain all play a more confrontational game and aim to outmuscle the faster, wide-running Australians.The likes of Charlotte Caslick, Emma Tonegato, Nicole Beck and Ellia Green showed they would have a tough time catching them first.Caslick finished the day with four tries, equalling Kiwi stars Portia Woodman and Kayla McAlister, to show her class as a playmaker and finisher.Australia showed no Games jitters and scored with almost every touch of the ball against the Colombians in what resembled a training run.That overall performance was amazing, said co-captain Sharni Williams, who scored their first Olympic try after just 45 seconds. Its a great start.Weve set that benchmark and now well just keep building.Walsh was also pleased to come through day one with no injuries as backline linchpin Emilee Cherry overcame her hamstring strain to play, and fully test it out against Fiji with a 60m sprint to score.New Zealand, meanwhile, wasted little time announcing their medal credentials as they powered past Kenya despite having their captain Sarah Goss and Ruby Tui both sin-binned during the first half.Even with six players, though, the Kiwis were way too strong as early tries by Portia Woodman, Kayla McAlister and Huriana Manuel set them off and running, and the Kenyans hardly got a look-in as they finished on the receiving end of a 52-0 defeat, with Woodman scoring a hat-trick.New Zealand followed up that win by brushing aside Spain 31-5.Great Britains women launched their Olympic rugby sevens challenge with two pool victories.Emily Scarratts team followed up an opening 29-3 victory over host nation Brazil by crushing Japan 40-0 thanks to touchdowns from Amy Wilson Hardy, Alice Richardson, Joanne Watmore, Katy McLean, Emily Scott and Heather Fisher.They also did not concede a try in either game, setting themselves up for Sundays Pool C decider against Canada.Scarratt said: It was a shaky start, but we know sevens tournaments are not decided on the first day, and weve got two good wins under our belt.The second performance was really pleasing.We really pride ourselves on our defence, if you dont let other teams score tries, it is generally a lot easier to win games.Canada will be a step up tomorrow. 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But although Bayliss said he had shot up the pecking order the selectors eventually decided to stick with the squad that has served England well for the majority of the last 18 months. England have won nine of their 12 most recent ODIs.There was, according to Bayliss, never any doubt that Morgan would return as captain. Though the England management were disappointed that he and Hales elected not to go to Bangladesh due to their security fears, the ECB had specified months ago that those who skipped the tour would not be punished for doing so.Root, who was rested from the limited-overs section of the Bangladesh tour, is also back and set to reclaim his spot at No. 3, despite expecting the birth of his first child a few days before England return to India in January. The combination of those factors meant no room for Duckett.There was a lot of discussion around Duckett, Bayliss said. It was the toughest decision and the one we spoke about the most. He did well in Bangladesh and if we had left someone else out they would have been desperately unlucky as well. We thought that Duckett has done himself no harm. He has shot up the pecking order and he is right there or thereabouts.At this stage he is more suited to white-ball cricket and he showed he had what it takes in Bangladesh. There were a couple of innings there that were class. He has done well for himself but we thought we would show a bit of solidarity with the team we have had and done so well in last 12-18 months.James Vince, who scored 53 runs in three ODIs in Bangladesh, has also been dropped, as was Steven Finn, who was a member of the squad but did not play in Bangladesh. The selectors resisted the temptation to rest players, reasoning that the gap between tours - the players will have more than two weeks at home between the end of the India Test series and their departure for the limited-overs games - was adequate.Bayliss did hint, though, that Moeen Ali and Ben Stokes who have played a fair bit may be rotated in order to allow someone like Liam Dawson ... another opportunity.With Morgan, Hales and Root all but certain to return, Duckett was competing for inclusion in the squad with Jonny Bairstow and Sam Billings. In the end, though, the selectors decided Bairstow and Billings were better players of spin and wanted to offer more opportunities to those regular members of the squad.Billings and Bairstow at this stage are probably the two spare batters, Bayliss said. We think both are two of our better players of spin. Billings did well with the opportunity he had in Bangladesh and Bairstow has been batting well.ddddddddddddProbably over the last couple of years, due to strength of the team we have had, he has not had the opportunities he would have liked. He is a good player, we all know that, and we want to keep him involved.Hales has made four hundreds and ODI cricket suits him to a tee. He has that bit of extra time to get himself in and when he gets himself in we know the damage he can do from a batting point of view. He has been an integral part of the last couple of seasons in white-ball cricket. He has not given up hope of continuing in Test cricket either, but at the moment he is not there and extra focus is on one-day cricket. He has certainly been one of our better players in white ball cricket.I have not had the chance to speak to Duckett yet but my message to him will be Mate, well done, you have had a fantastic start and see this as the beginnings of a career. Keep going out and scoring runs because you are right there or thereabouts. This decision was more to do with the experience of the guys we have in the team who have been together for the last 18 months and done well.The Champions Trophy is one of the big tournaments in the world and we are playing at home. We want to be in as good a form as we possibly can, so we dont want to be chopping and changing the team leading into that tournament.Bayliss confirmed that Morgan had been involved in the selection of the squad and dismissed the suggestion that his authority as captain had been diminished by his decision to miss the Bangladesh trip.Morgan not returning as captain was not even discussed, Bayliss said. It was said earlier that there would not be any recriminations against them and they are straight back in. We have done pretty well over last 18 months and the team we have got has been reasonably stable and successful and there is no reason to change.I have not sensed that his authority has been eroded at all. There has been no comment about it. He gets on well with all of the guys in the team. He is very highly respected among everyone for the job he has done over the last two years. He captains the team very well. He is a very positive captain and that means a lot to the players in the team.Other notable inclusions were Dawson being named in both squads - he was last week called up to join the Test party - and Tymal Mills in the T20 squad. And, while Bayliss acknowledged that Moeen and Adil Rashid are the two best spinners England have, he did name check Hampshires 19-year-old legspinner, Mason Crane, as a bowler with reasonable control and a player who had impressed him. ' ' '