England entered this Women’s Rugby World Cup with the rest of the world asking: Can anyone can stop them? After their tournament opener — a 69-7 win over the United States — those questions persist.<\/p>\n
The Red Roses are clear tournament favourites this summer, although they enter their next game of in second place in Pool A.<\/p>\n
Australia hold top spot after a 73-0 win over Samoa, giving them a slight points-difference advantage over England.<\/p>\n
It means the Red Roses will be hoping to be fast out the blocks to correct the record. Here is everything you need to know ahead of the clash.<\/p>\n
Key details and kick-off time<\/p>\n
When: Saturday, Aug. 30 at 5 p.m. BST (2 a.m. AEST)<\/p>\n
Where: cinch Stadium at Franklin’s Gardens, Northampton<\/p>\n
Match official: Maggie Cogger-Orr<\/p>\n
How to watch on TV in the UK, Ireland and Australia<\/p>\n
All 32 games of the Women’s Rugby World Cup will be broadcast free-to-air on BBC and BBC iPlayer in the UK. In Australia, the tournament will be broadcast on 9Now, and in Ireland it will be available on RTE Player.<\/p>\n
ESPN will also have extensive news, feature and match coverage. You can follow along here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Team news and starting XVs<\/p>\n Note: Team lineups will be shown when they are announced this week.<\/p>\n The Red Roses kicked off the tournament with an 11-try win against the USA and took an early lead through Sadia Kabeya and Hannah Botterman before Erica Jarrell-Searcy pulled one back.<\/p>\n After Alev Kelter was shown a yellow card, Maud Muir and star Ellie Kildunne scored in quick succession for the hosts to lead 28-7 at half-time.<\/p>\n England improved further in the second half and a ruthless display saw seven more tries scored as Abby Dow, Kildunne and Amy Cokayne all crossed, while Jess Breach and Lark Atkin-Davies bagged braces.<\/p>\n – Ilona Maher is rugby’s biggest star. Can she transform WRWC?<\/a>
– Women’s Rugby World Cup writers Q&A: England favourites? Players to watch?<\/a>
– Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025: Squad lists, fixtures, rankings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England entered this Women’s Rugby World Cup with the rest of the world asking: Can anyone can stop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-99794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99794","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=99794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}