{"id":928963,"date":"2026-10-15T11:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/928963\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T11:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:04:13","slug":"rugby-league-world-cup-live-updates-australia-v-new-zealand-battle-for-first-night-honours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/928963\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby League World Cup live updates: Australia v New Zealand battle for first night honours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anything Kalyn Ponga can do, Reece Walsh can do. After a great pass from Jack Bostock (yes, him again), Reece Walsh just turned in a brilliant 70m run to score. Magical stuff from the Broncos No.1. This second half has had everything. Ponga brilliance and Walsh magic. More, please. New Zealand lead 22-20 after 70 minutes<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reece Walsh in action for Australia.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3118b22329ef845593a9fec7a66b01b4e757b987.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Reece Walsh in action for Australia.Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anything Kalyn Ponga can do, Reece Walsh can do. After a great pass from Jack Bostock (yes, him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-928963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928963","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=928963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}