Woodman-wickliffe Breaks New Zealand Try Record In World Cup Cruise Against Japan

Portia Woodman-Wickliffe had already cemented her legendary position successful rugby earlier making much history against Japan. So overmuch has been said astir nan wing, pinch nan erstwhile Black Fern Kendra Cocksedge saying she “isn’t human” and nan New Zealand prima Ruby Tui describing her arsenic “out of this world”.

Woodman-Wickliffe collapsed New Zealand’s all-time try-scoring grounds arsenic nan Black Ferns secured their quarter-final spot pinch a large win.

Woodman-Wickliffe surpassed Doug Howlett, who scored 49 tries successful 63 games while nan Black Ferns fable reached nan 50-mark successful 30 Tests. She besides added to her grounds number of World Cup tries which now stands astatine 22. Braxton Sorensen-McGee besides laid down a marker to nan remainder of nan tourney pinch an awesome hat-trick and 4 conversions.

Silence descended complete Sandy Park for nan Haka but location was a rumbling of “ooo” arsenic Japan formed an arrow and moved guardant into a statement to laic their ain situation down to New Zealand. The Black Ferns fable Tui was sat conscionable successful beforehand of nan property container and she stood and followed on pinch nan Haka too.

Less than a infinitesimal into nan crippled nan Japan full-back Sora Nishimura was injured aft colliding pinch 1 of her teammates and it invigorated nan team. They scored 1 of nan champion squad tries of nan tourney truthful acold pinch nan helping Sakurako Hatada finishing well. Japan continued their bully start, peculiarly successful defence and astatine nan breakdown. But New Zealand tin move a crippled astir and they did conscionable that pinch Woodman-Wickliffe scoring.

Her effort was a typical portion of individual accomplishment but Jorja Miller’s adjacent people someway eclipsed it, a beautiful statement and evading 2 defenders connected her measurement to scoring. Katelyn Vaha‘akolo, Sorensen-McGee, Kennedy Tukuafu each scored earlier Haruka Hirotsu received a yellowish paper which was sent for a bunker reappraisal for head-on-head interaction successful a tackle but it remained a sin-bin only.

The 2nd half began pinch a New Zealand yellowish paper for nan replacement back-row Laura Bayfield for a deliberate knock-on. Japan past scored a effort arsenic Moe Tsukui went complete but it wasn’t agelong until nan Black Ferns added to their points pinch Sorensen-McGee successful for her second.

Bayfield was shown a 2nd yellowish and fixed a reddish paper for collapsing a maul resulting successful a Japanese punishment try. New Zealand responded perfectly pinch a awesome effort by Miller, Sorensen-McGee completed her hat-trick and Renee Holmes besides scored.

The Black Ferns’ last group lucifer is against Ireland adjacent Sunday.