England begin WXV1 with six-try win over Australia

England's remaining WXV fixtures are against Canada and world champions New Zealand

England: (28) 42
Tries: Botterman, Wyrwas, Packer 2, Breach, Jones; Cons: Aitchison 6
Australia: (0) 7
Try: Marsters; Con: Dallinger

England beat Australia 42-7 to make a winning start to WXV1, the new global tournament in women's rugby.

Hannah Botterman, Ella Wyrwas, captain Marlie Packer and Jess Breach all crossed in the first 40 minutes.

Packer and Megan Jones added further scores for England, while Ashley Marsters replied for Australia, who had Annabelle Codey sent off.

Second row Codey, who had been sin-binned in the first half for making shoulder contact with Packer's head, was shown a red card for the same offence against Wyrwas in the build-up to Jones' try.

England's next fixture is against Canada (27 October, 07:00 BST), who they recently beat in a home two-match series, before they take on New Zealand in a repeat of last year's World Cup final (4 November, 06:00 GMT).

More to follow.

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Line-ups

England: Rowland; Dow, Jones, Heard, Breach; Aitchison, Wyrwas; Botterman, Powell, Muir, Galligan, Aldcroft, Allen, Packer, Matthews.

Replacements: Atkin-Davies, Carson, Clifford, Beckett, Hibbert-Jones, Hunt, Bridger, Sing.

Australia: Moleka; Stewart, Friedrichs, McKenzie, Wong; Dallinger, Morgan; Hoy, Naden, Karpani, Leonard, Codey, Palu, Chancellor, Leaney.

Replacements: Talakai, Cheatham, Robinson, Lafai, Marsters, Dougherty, Smith, Miller.