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It’s been a strange day in Sydney: baking sun, belting rain, swirling winds, strange chills. Right now there’s blue skies and thick banks of cloud overhead but the field – a notoriously slow drainer - looks shipshape as the players prepare to take the field. Only a few thousand spectators in their seats so far but a steady stream coming in for this double-header.

Here come the players, Australia in their sunshine gold jerseys with green stripes, Fiji rocking light blue and navy. Now for the anthems.

Cross-code superstar Stacey Waaka , already a winner of a Rugby Union World Cup, is now chasing another in Rugby League.…