- World Cup quarter-final: New Zealand 55-3 Wales
- Portia Woodman becomes tournament’s all-time top try-scorer
Wales’s World Cup dreams have been extinguished and the dying of the light, in the end, made for pretty tough viewing. Denying the Black Ferns a semi-final berth was always a fanciful notion and, for all the plentiful red-shirted spirit and heart, few teams in the world would have fancied shutting down the constant darting menace of New Zealand’s back three.
With the dynamic duo of Portia Woodman and Ruby Tui contributing three of New Zealand’s nine tries, even the firm tournament favourites England will have looked on with a creeping sense of unease. The Black Ferns will now face France, convincing 39-3 winners over Italy in the day’s other quarter-final, in the last four and Woodman is now out on her own as the most prolific try-scorer in rugby union World Cup history.
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