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Rookie stuns NRL stars in astonishing World Cup debut - CtrlF.XYZ

Rookie stuns NRL stars in astonishing World Cup debut

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A 32-year-old playing his 4th crippled of nonrecreational rugby league has stolen the World Cup spotlight with a antiaircraft show to savour for Wales against Tonga.

Winger Kyle Evans, a seasoned of conscionable 3 English Super League games with Wakefield Trinity, has outpointed superstar opponents Siosofa Talakai and Daniel Tupou with a bid of earth-shaking tackles.

The tattooed erstwhile amateur rugby national player, connected Test debut, saved his champion for Blues Origin inferior Talakai - the 104kg NRL wrecking ball.

The archetypal of the bone-breaking efforts, aft 14 mins, led to the archetypal effort of the lucifer for Wales.

Racing successful from his close wing, Evans crunched the Sharks NRL centre, forcing the shot free.

Rather than respect his antiaircraft prowess, Evans bounced to his feet and received an offload from his teammate who'd swooped connected the escaped ball, and bushed 2 defenders to powerfulness distant for a maiden planetary try.

Evans smashes Talakai

"Twelve months agone helium had ne'er played rugby league, present helium is scoring a World Cup effort for the Welsh rugby league side," Dave Woods said successful commentary.

In the 2nd fractional with his squad down by 10, Evans rattled Talakai again, forcing different mistake and earning the respect of the rugby league world.

"He's having the crippled of his life," commentator Kyle Amor said.

Despite Evans' physicality and a stoic Wales outfit, Tonga went 2 from 2 successful the World Cup with a 32-6 win.

The star-laden Tongans were clunky successful the aboriginal exchanges with the ball, and missed 22 tackles successful the archetypal fractional alone.

Coach Kristian Woolf made respective cardinal changes from the opening crippled of the tourney with Bronco Tesi Niu playing fullback, Addin Fonua-Blake getting a crippled astatine prop and Panthers rake Soni Luke earning the starting hooker role.

"It's a small spot similar past week, we've got a spot of betterment successful america - we near a batch of points retired determination contiguous conscionable with our basal catch-pass and execution," Woolf said aft the match.

"But I thought we defended truly well, we gave up 1 effort with the shot determination being a spot loose, truthful I deliberation our subject with the shot was a small spot of an contented for america each night.

"We looked similar we thought it was going to beryllium easier than it was I suppose, and you thin to get a acquisition erstwhile you spell retired determination reasoning similar that."

Despite the 26-point borderline Welsh manager John Kear was arrogant of his side's display.

"I don't deliberation it [the scoreline] does america justice," helium said.

"The players are each bosom and you've got to instrumentality your chapeau disconnected to them.

"They perpetrate wholly against a big, physical, bully rugby league squad and again I'm arrogant of them but we've lost, we're successful decision but the resilience is tremendous.

"We've got to realise they're the full-time outfit. We're playing an NRL squad - and a bully NRL squad - and that's wherefore I'm truthful pleased with our effort."

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