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MELBOURNE : Tonga have never made it out of the group phase at the World Cup and appear set to continue that record in France despite boosting their ranks with a slew of former New Zealand internationals.
PARIS: France will sorely miss match-winning flyhalf Romain Ntamack but having rediscovered their legendary flair, they have everything it takes to triumph and lift their first World Cup on home soil.
SYDNEY : There has been much, sometimes furious, discussion about the balance of the All Blacks back row over the last few years but it would be a brave soul to suggest that Ardie Savea does not deserve a place in it.
Italy have appeared at every Rugby World Cup without ever reaching the knockout stage and they will need something extraordinary to end that streak after being grouped alongside France and New Zealand in Pool A.
New Zealand Rugby's governing body was branded "not fit for purpose" in a scathing independent report published on Thursday into the country's governing body.
Less than 24 hours after landing in South Africa, leg-spinner Tanveer Sangha was handed his debut Australia cap during the first T20I against the Proteas in Kingsmead, Durban. Shipped into the playing XI after veteran leggie Adam Zampa fell ill, Sangha registered record figures to help Australia thrash South Africa by 111 runs. The 21-year-old's 4-31 marked the best return by an Australian man on T20I debut in nearly two decades, only bettered by Michael Kasprowicz's 4-29 in Australia's first taste to T20I cricket in 2005.
England Twenty20 international debutant Brydon Carse took three wickets to set up a seven-wicket win over New Zealand in the series opener at Chester-le-Street on Wednesday.
Strength in depth among forwards and backs has South Africans believing that captain Siya Kolisi and his Springboks can successfully defend in France the Rugby World Cup they won four years ago.