New Zealand’s Black Ferns proved too good in the Rugby World Cup final and, with the 15-a-side players’ contracts up in favour of the Olympic format of sevens, it is all change
It had all the drama of the women’s cricket final at Lord’s last month. But this time there was no happy ending for England. The Red Roses learned New Zealand can always spoil that beauty with plenty of thorns of their own. For the fourth time the Black Ferns have overcome England in a World Cup final.
England’s powerful pack were more than a match for New Zealand and their wing Lydia Thompson scored a brilliant second-half try that on any other day would have won the World Cup but England, a dozen points ahead at one stage in the first half, were overrun after the break.
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