Australian rugby’s try scoring machine Maddison Levi moved into equal second place on the all-time list with an early double at the opening leg of the World Rugby Sevens world championship at Hong Kong on Friday.

The 23-year-old speedster scored twice in the first half of Australia’s 34-7 thumping of Great Britain to chalk up her 50th World Series try this season and the 256th of her career.

That took her to joint second on the all-time list, alongside New Zealand legend Portia Woodman-Wickliffe, with only Kiwi Michaela Brake (287) still ahead.

It now only seems a matter of time before Levi passes everyone to sit alone at the top.

“The great thing about her is that she does it year after year,” Australia coach Tim Walsh told CODE Sports.

“You often see players have a breakout year and then they get found out a bit, but she just keeps on getting better and better and better. When you compare her to the greats of the game like Portia and Brake, she streaks ahead of them.

“Her work rate is incredible, she defends well, she’s a complete player and she’s an entertainer, which is what the game needs.”

Levi wasn’t the only Aussie in great form at Hong Kong’s new Kai Tak Sports Park.

Her younger also sister Teagan scored twice in Australia’s 33-0 romp over South Africa while

Faith Nathan and Bienne Terita chipped in with a couple of tries each.

“We came out here just to execute, just do the small things right, the basics. Our goal this weekend is just to stay up in D (defence) and suffocate them and I think we did that pretty well,” the Australian co-captain Madison Ashby said.

“Our teammates make it so easy for me to do my job, so it’s pretty easy. I just got a good group of girls around me that support me, so yeah, I love it. I love that my team backs me, I loved that my coaches backs me.”

Regarded as the mecca of Sevens rugby, Hong Kong celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, as well as being the first leg of the three-round world championship.

The Aussie women have never won in Hong Kong so are desperate to break their duck this weekend and get a early advantage over New Zealand, the heavy favourites.

“Sevens has always been about David v Goliath, and this is what it provides,” Walsh said.

“It’s one of the ones we haven’t won. We’ve won at home a couple of times, Dubai, Cape Town, Madrid, London, we’ve won all over the world but we’d definitely like to win in Hong Kong.”