• Eddie Jones’s side end Wales’s 14-game winning streak
This was supposed to be Wales’s big moment, a chance to knock New Zealand off their decade-long perch at the top of the World Rugby rankings. Instead a shirt-sleeved August crowd saw a powerful home win which will fuel that time-honoured English emotion, premature optimism. There is still more than a month before the tournament kicks off, as both coaches were quick to stress afterwards.
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Written by Robert Kitson at Twickenham
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/aug/11/england-wales-rugby-world-cup-warmup-match-report under the title “England power to World Cup warm-up win and deny Wales world No 1 ranking”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
