Occasionally, the fates align in sport to deliver an encounter befitting the grandest of stages. And so on Saturday World Rugby has got the women’s World Cup final it wanted – the defending champions and hosts taking on the best side in the world. Two of the sport’s pre-eminent nations meeting in a showpiece decider with Eden Park sold out for one of the highest-profile women’s rugby match in history.
“It hasn’t let us down, has it?” said England captain Sarah Hunter ahead of her fourth final. “Here in New Zealand, a sold-out Eden Park, the biggest women’s game that there is going to be.
