Will Jordan became New Zealand’s record try-scorer with a hat-trick in his side’s 47-17 thrashing of Italy in the Nations Championship.<\/p>\n
Jordan’s three tries at the Wellington Regional Stadium took the 28-year-old’s tally to 50 in 56 Tests, one ahead of Doug Howlett.<\/p>\n
“It’s special. I think back to when I was a kid, practising my chip-and-chase in the back yard,” said back-three player Jordan.<\/p>\n
“To think I’d be here today, it’s hugely humbling. I’ve been part of some great teams over the last seven years and, in turn, I hope I’ve inspired some kids to practise their chip-and-chase, and dream big.”<\/p>\n
New Zealand scored seven tries in all against Italy, with Sam Darry, Cam Roigard, Ethan de Groot and Tupou Vaa’i also crossing the line.<\/p>\n
Tommaso Menoncello and Leonardo Marin touched down for Italy, who were not helped by the dismissal of Niccolo Cannone in the 51st minute.<\/p>\n
Cannone was initially shown a yellow card for headbutting Roigard before the television match official upgraded it to a red card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Jordan became New Zealand’s record try-scorer with a hat-trick in his side’s 47-17 thrashing of Italy in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-685928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}