A record against the hosts
England Wheelchair beat Australia 86-18 in Wollongong to reach their fifth straight Rugby League World Cup final, and the 86 is their highest total against their old rivals.
The game was settled by the break. England led 40-6 at half-time and 30-0 after 24 minutes, with Mason Billington, the Player of the Match, scoring in the third minute and finishing with a hat-trick before the interval. Rob Hawkins scored 30 points on his own and Joe Coyd also crossed in the first half.
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Final against France on Friday
Diab Karim got Australia on the board with a converted try, but England kept coming. Jack Brown and Nathan Collins combined for three tries in the first ten minutes of the second half, and Hawkins added two more. Karim and Dan Antsey scored consolation tries just after the hour, and Chris Haynes and captain Lewis King finished the job.
The defending champions now meet France in Wollongong on Friday, chasing a third world title. King wasn’t getting ahead of himself. “We were super disciplined in how we wanted to play. We had a game plan and we executed it,” he said, before adding that against France it is always about the finer details and margins.
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