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England will be without fullback Helena Rowland and prop Hannah Botterman due to injuries for Saturday's women's Rugby World Cup final against New Zealand at Eden Park in Auckland.
Winger Claudia MacDonald has been recalled to the England team for Saturday's (Nov 5) women's Rugby World Cup semi-final against Canada at Auckland's Eden Park after missing the last two matches through injury.
(Reuters) -Winger Claudia MacDonald has been recalled to the England team for Saturday's women's Rugby World Cup semi-final against Canada at Auckland's Eden Park after missing the last two matches through injury.
England coach Simon Middleton has made two changes for Saturday's women's Rugby World Cup semi-final against Canada in Auckland.
England flanker Sadia Kabeya will make her World Cup debut against Fiji on Saturday after head coach Simon Middleton named a starting line-up for the tournament opener in Auckland that also includes four players who featured in the 2014 World Cup win.
Mould-breaking rugby players, male or female, are pretty rare. By almost any measure, though, England’s Sarah Bern is different. As a teenager she once aspired to be a downhill skier and sporting orthodoxy has never grabbed her. The result is a one-of-a-kind athlete with the ability, when the Women’s Rugby World Cup kicks off next month, to illuminate the gloomiest of autumns.
After making his Premiership debut in 2007 for Northampton, 15 years later Ashton has secured his place in the record books by overtaking Tom Varndell as the leading Premiership try-scorer with 95 five-pointers compared to the retired winger’s 92 which he was tied with prior to Saturday. Now playing for Leicester, the former England international broke the record after three minutes against Bristol Bears at Welford Road before adding two more later in the first half to strengthen his tally. This score could be even higher had Ashton not started his rugby career with two years at rugby league’s Wigan Warriors and spent a season with Toulon in France later in his career before joining Sale.
Here's your round-up of all the latest rugby headlines for Monday, May 2.