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NEW YORK -- Lynetta Kizer had a career-high 21 points and Marissa Coleman scored 11 of her 14 points during a decisive run to help the Indiana Fever beat the New York Liberty 82-70 on Thursday in the final game for both teams before the Olympic break.With the game tied at 58 near the end of the third quarter, Coleman hit a 3-pointer to start the 15-2 burst. She had 11 of the teams 15 points during the spurt, including three 3-pointers and a tough fall-away jumper. Her last 3-pointer made it 73-60 with 6:10 left in the game.The Fever (12-12), who are sixth in the AP WNBA power poll, wouldnt let New York couldnt get closer than nine the rest of the way.Tina Charles had 25 points and 13 rebounds for third-ranked New York (18-8).The Fever and the Liberty were both fined by the league on Wednesday for wearing plain black warm up shirts in the wake of recent shootings by and against police officers. 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Australia lose the unlosable Test.Brisbane, 2016: Australia make 429 and bowl Pakistan out for 142. Steven Smith doesnt enforce the follow-on. He sets Pakistan 490 for victory. To win, they would need not only to break the world record for the highest successful Test chase, but demolish it. For Ian Botham and VVS Laxman, read Asad Shafiq. Could Smith also lose the unlosable Test?For much of the fifth afternoon at the Gabba, the answer seemed to be yes. Pakistan began the day needing 108 more with two wickets in hand, and the runs flowed. They were not struggling. They looked under little pressure. Before Smith knew it they needed 90. Then 80. Then 70. Then 60. Then 50. And all without a single wicket having fallen.The crowd was small. Only 2593 spectators were watching what could have turned into a Test every bit as historic as the tied Test between Australia and West Indies at the same venue 56 years earlier. And a vocal section of that crowd was made up of Pakistan supporters. They were so noisy that Smith might have wondered if he was in Brisbane or Dubai.And then came the moment he had been waiting for. Mitchell Starc, tiring, breathing the big ones at the top of his mark, sent down a fierce and accurate bouncer that Shafiq could not evade. He fended to gully and was out for 137. Four balls later, Yasir Shah absentmindedly wandered out of his crease after squeezing a yorker to second slip, and Smith threw down the stumps.Relief ran through the Australians. They had won. By only 39 runs, but they had won. They had not lost the unlosable Test. The legend of the Gabbatoir - where Australia have not lost a Test since 1988 - remains intact.Probably at about 60-odd to go, Smith said, when asked at what point he felt Pakistan had a strong chance of winning. That was where I started getting a little bit nervous, hoping that one of our world-class fast bowlers would be able to step up and get us that breakthrough. Thankfully Mitchell Starc was the one to do it today.The pink ball was 60 overs old, it wasnt really doing much. All the air was out of it, it was incredibly soft. To get the ball to rise like that, and get us that key scalp, a lot of credit has got to go to Mitchell.And the run-out of Yasir?Im not sure what he was doing, Smith said. But, it was nice that he was out of his ground and I was ablee to hit the stumps and finish what was a pretty amazing Test match.dddddddddddd A lot of credit has to go to Pakistan, the way they played in that last innings. Asad Shafiq was absolutely outstanding and all of the tail played beautifully around him.Smiths captaincy was under the spotlight during the day, especially when he began proceedings with only one slip in place to Shafiq, and later he moved the second slip out for the No. 10 Yasir as well, only for an edge to fly through that vacant spot immediately off Jackson Bird. Smith said his plan was a balance between attack and defence.It was about setting a reasonably defensive field but still bowling attacking lines, he said. The guys were slightly off both last night and this morning. I was happy for Shafiq trying to get off strike and having a crack at Yasir Shah. I thought it would be a great opportunity to close it out, the more balls we got at him, but credit to the way Yasir played as well. Australia have retained the same 12-man squad for the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne, which could mean a reprieve for struggling batsman Nic Maddinson. However, they have also left open the option of adding an allrounder to the group, depending on how the fast men pull up after their heavy workload.Starc and Josh Hazlewood each bowled 56 overs in the Gabba Test, which for both men represented their greatest workload in any Test match. Hazlewood sent down 42 overs in the second innings alone, the highest tally by an Australia fast bowler in a Test innings since Glenn McGrath delivered 42 overs against New Zealand in Christchurch in 2005.I think the selectors are talking about it at the moment, Smith said. Its obviously been a very tough Test match for our fast bowlers, theyve bowled a lot of overs and we are going to have to see how they pull up over the next couple of days.They are going to be put on ice for the next couple of days and try to get back a bit of energy and get rid of whatever soreness theyre carrying. I think an allrounder will be talked about. But well wait and see which way the selectors want to go.Spinner Nathan Lyon finished with match figures of 2 for 139 after pre-match speculation that he could be left out to make room for a four-man pace attack.In periods of the game he bowled well, Smith said. In others he was a little bit off. Bowling at the Gabba with the pink ball that was pretty soft does make it difficult to bowl spin. He has a great record at the Gabba in red-ball cricket where the ball stays harder for longer and hes able to generate that bounce out of the wicket, but he couldnt get that bounce with the way the ball was. ' ' '