World Cup surprise in bid for all-time finals upset

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The Wallaroos person sprung a enactment astonishment arsenic Australia tries to pull disconnected 1 of the large sporting upsets against England successful Sunday's Rugby World Cup quarterfinal.

Coach Jay Tregonning has handed Layne Morgan a commencement astatine halfback up of the good performed Iliseva Batibasaga, who wore No.9 successful each 3 radical games.

Tregonning has besides switched goalkicker Lori Cramer from fullback to the near helping arsenic Pauline Piliae-Rasabale returns to the No.15 jersey for the clash astatine Waitakere Stadium.

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The guardant battalion is unchanged from the tense triumph implicit Wales.

"The Wallaroos person earned the close to beryllium successful this quarterfinal," Australia skipper Shannon Parry said.

"We're present due to the fact that of the sacrifices we've made, the hard enactment we've enactment in, and the enactment from the Wallaroos unit and families."

Since losing to New Zealand successful 2019, England person peeled disconnected a singular 28 consecutive wins - a tier 1 Test rugby satellite grounds for men oregon women.

The men's satellite grounds streak of 18 is shared by the 2015-16 All Blacks and Eddie Jones' England broadside of 2015-17.

"It's an honour to beryllium capable to vie against 1 of the champion teams successful the world," Parry said.

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"We don't often get a accidental to play against the bluish hemisphere sides – it's a wholly antithetic benignant of rugby – and it's been invaluable acquisition for the squad.

"We're present to triumph this quarterfinal - we're not backing distant from the challenge, and I americium definite we'll consciousness the enactment coming from the different broadside of the ditch."

Tregonning has besides brought Mahalia Murphy and Cecilia Smith onto the seat for the archetypal clip during the World Cup.

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"I'm arrogant of however our players person developed during our clip astatine the Rugby World Cup," Tregonning said.

"Every week, I spot improvements, I spot players propulsion themselves harder, and their determination to grow. Our mindset is the aforesaid arsenic it was for the opening crippled – determination is nary unit connected us, the unit is connected England to perform."

Meanwhile, England skipper Sarah Hunter volition go her country's most-capped rugby player, men's oregon women's, arsenic she prepares for her 138th Test.

The 37-year-old No.8 volition interruption the grounds held by Rocky Clark.

"The mode she conducts herself successful everything she does some connected and disconnected the tract is admirable," England manager Simon Middleton said of Hunter.

"Her radical skills, quality to pb and pass with radical from each walks of beingness makes her basal out. She takes pridefulness successful everything she does and does it to the champion of her ability.

"I deliberation arsenic a sports idiosyncratic the 1 happening you anticipation you tin bash erstwhile you look backmost is to beryllium capable to accidental to yourself 'I couldn't person fixed more, I've been the champion I could be' - Sarah is 1 of the precise fewer who volition beryllium capable to unequivocally bash that.

"She is simply a unsocial idiosyncratic and captain."

WALLAROOS (15-1): Pauline Piliae-Rasabale, Bienne Terita, Georgina Friedrichs, Sharni Williams, Lori Cramer, Arabella McKenzie, Layne Morgan, Grace Hamilton, Shannon Parry (c), Emily Chancellor, Grace Kemp, Michaela Leonard, Bridie O'Gorman, Adiana Talakai, Liz Patu

Reserves: Tania Naden, Emily Robinson, Eva Karpani, Sera Naiqama, Piper Duck, Iliseva Batibasaga, Cecilia Smith, Mahalia Murphy

ENGLAND (15-1): Helena Rowland, Lydia Thompson, Emily Scarratt, Tatyana Heard, Abby Dow, Zoe Harrison, Leanne Infante, Sarah Hunter (c), Marlie Packer, Alex Matthews, Abbie Ward, Zoe Aldcroft, Sarah Bern, Amy Cokayne, Vickii Cornborough

Reserves: Lark Davies, Hannah Botterman, Maud Muir, Rosie Galligan, Poppy Cleall, Lucy Packer, Holly Aitchison, Ellie Kildunne

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