Playing their seventh consecutive World Cup final, in front of a world-record crowd for women’s rugby of 81,885, England’s players surely sensed they always had a winning performance like this within them team – the question from the outside was whether nerves or some other intangible would trip them up.
Canada had the opening try, through wing Asia Hogan-Rochester after four minutes. But England hit their stride with a weaving try by full-back Kildunne, who beat flanker Karen Paquin’s tackle then sidestepped past two more defenders.
Kildunne starred throughout the tournament (Photo: PA)The England scrum was dominant, shoving the Maple Leafs backwards, and the Red Roses’ jackalling at the breakdown was quick and well-rehearsed, epitomised led by the prop Hannah Botterman, who is one of the team’s crowd favourites.
Abbie Ward had England’s fourth try from a scrum in 49 minutes but Canada stayed in touch at 26-13 with Hogan-Rochester’s second.
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And Matthews’ second try after 68 minutes sealed the deal.
There were 440,000 tickets sold, and half of the spectators were attending their first matches of women’s rugby.
Will those newbies now flock to women’s and girls’ sections at clubs and schools? Or were simply here for a fun ride in the confident expectation of England success?If those questions are the lingering ones now, we also saw Zoe Aldcroft and her England team answer those we had pondered pre-match, as they extended their Test record run of wins to 33 since the losing final in Auckland in 2022 they ought to have won too.
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