Australia will play New Zealand in next week's Tri-Nations final at Elland Road, Leeds, Great Britain are eliminated.

80 mins: Great Britain end the game on the attack, with the ball going dead as Gareth Raynor fails in another touchdown attempt.

76 mins: A rare missed kick to touch by Australia gives GB hope as they launch another counter attack, but the move breaks down and results in an Australian scrum just past the half-way line.

73 mins: Great Britain 14-26 Australia
Micky Higham's burst through the Australian defence 40 yards out sets up Richard Horne to go over under the posts. Iestyn Harris adds the goal as Great Britain give their fans a straw to clutch at against the 12 men of Australia.

71 mins: Gareth Raynor seems poised to mark his GB debut with a try but as he stretches over in the left hand corner he loses control and throws the ball down onto the ground.

70 mins: Iestyn Harris is hauled down by Trent Barrett 10 yards short of the line as he follows a chip through. Barrett is sent to the sin-bin for the second time for a professional foul, ruling him out of the rest of the game, but Harris is not sufficiently close to merit a penalty try.

66 mins: Craig Gower, who was a pre-match fitness doubt, is withdrawn from the game with a muscle injury.

60 mins: Great Britain 8-26 Australia
At the end of another Anthony Minichiello-inspired counter-attack, Mark Gasnier eludes two tackles to stretch over and touch down from close range in the right-hand corner. Craig Gower takes up the kick duties and misses.

57 mins: GB make 63m on five tackles to get near the Australian line, but yet again the kick through is safely gathered by the Kangaroos and the attack fizzles out and the direction of play is reversed.

49 mins: Great Britain 8-22 Australia
Every time GB get to the fifth tackle, the kick seems to go straight to Australian hands and they launch a counter attack.

Brent Tait's sprint two-thirds of the length of the pitch to touch down is yet another example of this. Craig Fitzgibbon adds the extras as the Kangaroos start to stretch away from GB's grasp.

45 mins: Anthony Minichiello gathers up Richard Horne's attempted grubber kick on the fifth tackle, and from the resulting set of six, Australia move the ball down the other end of the pitch to the GB line.

43 mins: Great Britain 8-16 Australia
A costly double blunder by Jamie Thackray. First he loses possession and then compounds it by conceding an interference penalty, which is put over by Craig Fitzgibbon.

Half-time: Great Britain 8-14 Australia

40 mins: Great Britain 8-14 Australia
Mark O'Meley produces a spectacular bit of juggling to catch Anthony Minichiello's desperate throwaway pass to touch down for the second try of his international career. Craig Fitzgibbon's goal puts the Kangaroos six points up at the interval.

36 mins: Directly as a result of the penalty conceded by Senior, Craig Fitzgibbon goes over under the posts, despite the attention of Leon Pryce. The video referee is consulted but the try is not given as Fitzgibbon did not have full control of the ball when he grounded it.

35 mins: Seeking to make the most of their temporary one-man advantage, GB put Australia under pressure but Brent Tait breaks clear to the halfway line, and Keith Senior is penalised for holding down.

29 mins: Great Britain 8-8 Australia
Brian Carney launches GB counter-attack which makes 46m on the first tackle. Richard Horne's kick through, followed up by Gareth Raynor, force Australia into a goal-line drop out. In the resulting set of six, Micky Higham puts Carney over in the right hand corner. Harries misses the goal.

28 mins: Great Britain 4-8 Australia
Kevin Sinfield comes on as a replacement for Jamie Peacock as GB launch one of their better passing moves so far. A superb Adrian Morley tackle on Luke O'Donnell gets the ball back in British hands after a turn-over. Trent Barrett is sin-binned for interference on Stuart Fielden, and Iestyn Harris kicks the penalty.

23 mins: Australia try and build on their advantage with another high ball into the corner but Carney gathers it safely and launches a GB counter-attack, getting the ball safely away from the goal line.

20 mins: Great Britain 2-8 Australia
Another high ball is fired into the Great Britain right hand corner, Brian Carney gets a touch to it under pressure from Matt King, and it goes straight to Matt Cooper who runs in from five yards to touch down. Craig Fitzgibbon adds the goal.

18 mins: Danny Buderus is penalised for flopping on an already tackled player, giving GB a penalty. Kieron Cunningham is brought down inches short of the line on the second tackle, and Richard Horne puts a clever chip through but it goes out of play and the threat is gone.

16 mins: Great Britain 2-2 Australia
Craig Fitzgibbon levels the score with a penalty from straight in front of the posts.

14 mins: Australia make good ground from the restart and on the last tackle, Mark Gasnier puts a high ball into the corner which is knocked behind by a green shirt. 20 yard restart for GB.

12 mins: Great Britain 2-0 Australia
Great Britain captain Jamie Peacock is clearly limping after a tackle as GB get possession back near the half way line and make 52m on the second tackle. After the fourth, Richard Horne is held down and Great Britain get a penalty. Iestyn Harris puts it over to open the scoring.

7 mins: Leon Pryce settles the nerves with a good take from a Craig Gower high ball, as neither side gets an early grip on the game. Gower was a pre-match fitness doubt.

4 mins: Pryce fumbles a high ball under pressure from Anthony Minichello, but he knocks on, handing the advantage back to Great Britain.

2 mins: Adrian Morley loses possession on the final tackle 10 yards out under the Australian line.

1 minute: Stuart Fielden opens the game with a handling error returning the kick-off, handing the initiative straight to Australia, only for Petero Civoniceva to return the favour and give the ball back to Great Britain.

Australia try a new-look halfback pairing of Trent Barrett and Craig Gower, with Darren Lockyer out injured and Scott Prince dropped.

The Kangaroos' pre-match preparations were disrupted by the team being caught in traffic and arriving late at the stadium.

Tri-Nations holders Australia have not lost a series since being defeated 2-0 by France in 1978 but go into the match knowing they could be knocked out if Great Britain beat them by more than eight points.

After a slow start to the tournament, Great Britain hit their stride in last week's resounding win over New Zealand at Huddersfield, which revived their chances of reaching next Saturday's final in Leeds.

Hull left winger Gareth Raynor will make his first start for Great Britain on his home ground in what is sure to be a full-blooded fiercely contested match.

Great Britain: Pryce, Carney, Gleeson, Senior, Raynor, Harris, Horne, Fielden, Cunningham, Morley, Peacock, Johnson, Ellis. Replacements: Higham, Walker, Thackray, Sinfield.

Australia: Minichiello, King, Gasnier, Cooper, Tate; Barrett, Gower; Civoniceva, Buderus (capt), Ryles, O'Donnell, Fitzgibbon, Kennedy. Replacements: Wing, Waterhouse, O'Meley, Mason.

Referee: Steve Ganson (England).