Sheens wants same group for World Cup Kangaroos coach Tim Sheens concedes the players which maintained Australia's recent dominance over New Zealand have one foot on the plane to the UK - but they will have to improve to take the World Cup back off the Kiwis. Australia won their 14th straight mid-year Test with a 32-12 victory over the Kiwis on Friday night, though they were made to earn victory having been locked at 6-all after 51 minutes. The streak protected, thoughts immediately turned to the end of year World Cup, where Australia will look for revenge after losing the 2008 final to the Kiwis on home soil. The Kangaroos' next game will be the tournament opener against England in Cardiff on October 26 - with Sheens saying he expected to have a similarly looking side at Millennium Stadium. "I'd love to have that group available," Sheens said. I hope everyone gets through - that's going to be a long year so I'm going to have to bite the nails off waiting for everyone to be fit. I've probably jumped the gun with the selectors but I'm sure they'd agree with me, most of those guys have got one leg on the plane . It's a good squad, it's been the basis of our squad for four years now. But Sheens concedes a similar performance to one produced at Canberra Stadium on Friday night may not be enough should they - as expected - again come up against the Kiwis in the World Cup final. "We've going to have to be better at the back end of the year," Sheens said. They're going to be better and we'll have to be better too. That's because the Kiwis should have a number of players who missed Friday night's encounter back on deck. Add Benji Marshall, Sonny Bill Williams, Greg Eastwood, Manu Vatuvei, Sam Kasiano and skipper Simon Mannering - who were all injured - and suspended duo Jeremy Smith and Krisnan Inu to that group, and the Kiwis have a formidable look to them. And there will also be improvement from within, with 11 players from Friday night's match aged 24 or under. "For me it's the growing potential in the group," coach Stephen Kearney said. It's been well documented we had a number of players not playing through injury and suspension, but the lads did a good job. I was reading out the names when we were handing out Test jumpers (on Thursday) night and the number of Tests - or lack off - that some of them have played - I thought they handled themselves pretty well. There was just individuals that let themselves down and that was the point of my talk with them in the sheds, if we want to be a side that challenges Australia every time we play them, we've got to play for 80 minutes.