Hele Hat-trick Helps South Africa Beat Debutants Brazil

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Roos scores early to unfastened scoring for South Africa

Alastair Telfer

BBC Sport journalist astatine Franklin's Gardens

Women's Rugby World Cup - Pool D

South Africa (26) 66

Tries: Roos, Hele 3, Malinga 2, Janse van Rensburg 2, Ngwevu, Makua Cons: Dolf 8

Brazil (3) 6

Pens: Kochhann 2

Number 8 Aseza Hele scored a hat-trick arsenic South Africa comfortably defeated Women's Rugby World Cup debutants Brazil successful Northampton.

The 60-point triumph is South Africa's largest Women's World Cup winning margin, surpassing a 15-point triumph complete Kazakhstan successful 2010.

Hele, formerly of Premiership Women's Rugby broadside Harlequins, was astatine her destructive best, pinch nan lowest-ranked broadside successful nan tourney struggling to extremity her sadistic power.

The crippled was only nan 17th Test successful Brazil's women's XVs history, and nan South American broadside defended good successful parts, but could only negociate six points done nan footwear of fly-half Raquel Kochhann.

Springbok Women adjacent play Italy successful York, while Brazil travel up against France successful Exeter, pinch some games being played adjacent Sunday.

Victory successful York would put Swys de Bruin's broadside successful a beardown position to suffice for nan knockout stages aft Italy's opening conclusion by France.

Line-ups

South Africa: Dolf; Dolf, Mpupha, Ngwevu, Malinga; Van Rensburg, Roos; Charlie, Gwala, Latsha, Booi (capt), Lochner, Solontsi, Mcatshulwa, Hele.

Replacements: Gunter, Ngxingolo, Mdliki, Ubisi, Makua, Jacobs, Tose, Cilliers.

Brazil: Silva; Barth, Fioravanti, Nicolau, Santini; Kochhann, Mayumi Bednarski; Barros, Leni Lima, Prioste, Coimbra, Souza, Henwood, Carvalho, Carvalo.

Replacements: Gomes Saccomanno, Vergara, Mamede, Dakar, Silva Ferreira, Campos, Tenorio, Lopes.