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The former Argentina hooker has succeeded, with Australia showing a marked improvement in the set-piece and the maul during the Rugby Championship. The Welsh win means that England have to beat Australia tomorrow evening at Twickenham.

Although much of Wales’ 23-13 Pool A victory over Fiji at the Millennium Stadium was not pretty, first-half tries by Gareth Davies and Scott Baldwin – plus 13 points from Dan Biggar – saw them home.

In a major blow to England’s chances of overturning their perilous position in Pool A of the 2015 Rugby World Cup, injury has ruled Billy Vunipola out for the remainder of the competition.

With his own job in the balance, too, he admitted: “Yes, it does”.

Fellow All Black Doug Howlett, by using 13 five-pointers, will be the only other game player above Mitchell upon the all-time World Cup tryscoring leaderboard. Farrell sprang out of the line and gave Wales a sniff and then Barritt couldn’t resist and got left for dead.

Sky Sports’ Will Greenwood says the balance of the England team is off, but consistency in selection is key against Australia… His two-try performance made him Australia’s leading World Cup try scorer and equal second overall. Scott Williams, Liam Williams and...

England No.8 Billy Vunipola is ruled out of the remainder of the Rugby World Cup with a knee injury, with Nick Easter taking his place in the Red Rose squad.

Warren Gatland says Wales will not single out Sam Burgess for special attention in Saturday’s crunch World Cup clash against England.

“But we’re under no illusions about what a tough, tough test this is going to be and we wouldn’t want it any other way”.

The Gloucester number eight suffered a knee injury in England’s 35-11 victory over Fiji.

He said: “Ben has a little bang on his knee that isn’t serious at all. We know he is a big-game player and a great competitor and so are the other players around him”.

England forward Billy Vunipola says he had no idea his late try against Fiji had secured a World Cup bonus point.

Two-try hero Mike Brown may be certain of his place in England’s next World Cup match but coach Stuart Lancaster could do with a few changes for the clash with Wales.

Twenty legends of rugby representing the twenty nations at this World Cup – including Australia’s Michael Lynagh – lined up on either side of the giant rugby ball that was the central focus on the field.

“I don’t care about the score, I just want to play well and win”, he said, adding that prop Samson Lee and full-back Liam Williams would both get run-outs after slowly coming back from injury.