Kangaroos crush England in Ashes opener<\/a><\/p>\nReece Walsh scored two tries and saved two more as the Kangaroos belted England 26-6 in front of a record crowd at Wembley Stadium in London.<\/p>\n
Cleary and Munster \u2014 who are both regarded as potential NRL Immortals once they retire \u2014 were captivated by Walsh’s efforts against England in front of 60,812 spectators.<\/p>\n
“It’s outstanding, what a freak of a player,” Cleary said.<\/p>\n
“It’s an absolute pleasure to play alongside him.”<\/p>\n
Storm great Munster saw Walsh’s brilliance up close in his side’s 26-22 loss to the Broncos in the NRL season decider in Sydney earlier this month.<\/p>\n
“I’m very lucky to play with him. He broke my heart a couple of weeks ago,” Munster said.<\/p>\n
“He’s a special talent and he’s only going to get better. That’s great to see.”<\/p>\n
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Reece Walsh was a fan favourite with the crowd at Wembley. (Getty Images\/CameraSport: Lee Clark)<\/p>\n
Walsh, though, is his own harshest critic.<\/p>\n
He found fault in his game against England and vowed to improve in the second Test of the series, which will be played at Liverpool’s Everton Stadium next Sunday morning AEDT.<\/p>\n
“There’s some things that I could definitely get better at, for sure,” Walsh said.<\/p>\n
“There was a few things in defence there, I sort of let the boys down in the game.<\/p>\n
“I thought we were pretty scrappy out there \u2026 there’s a lot of room for improvement.<\/p>\n
“But when we’re all chasing perfection, it doesn’t mean you’re going to get it. So we’ve just got to keep trying to get better.”<\/p>\n
Following the second Ashes Test, the series will conclude at Headingley in Leeds on November 9 AEDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Cleary and Cameron Munster have heaped praise on Australia teammate Reece Walsh following his stunning Test debut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[13285,64,63,4567,9364,3195,1203,761,762,158,13391,159,85],"class_list":["post-242277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-ashes","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cameron-munster","tag-first-test","tag-kangaroos","tag-nathan-cleary","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-reece-walsh","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}