Wales hold on to beat Australia in frantic match and go top of Pool D
Parkes & Gareth Davies tries gave Wales 23-8 half-time lead
Haylett-Petty & Hooper scored for Australia in second half
But Wales' defence stood firm to keep Wallabies at bay
Fly-half Biggar went off after suffering head injury - Patchell came on
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Gareth Griffiths
BBC Sport Wales in Tokyo
Great start for Wales. Brilliant counter rucking from young flanker Aaron Wainwright after a Josh Adams tackle, a huge charge up the middle from Jake Ball and Dan Biggar slots over the drop-goal. Breathtaking stuff.
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Stirling Mortlock
Former Australia international on BBC Radio 5 Live
Wow! The kick-off was executed perfectly, the turnover ensued and that is a great start by Wales. Breakdown, bread and butter rugby done well.
Dan Biggar
Oh yes....
Dan Biggar drops back into the pocket, gives scrum-half Gareth Davies the shout and snaps a drop-goal right through the middle from 30m out.
Instant points with less than a minute on the clock.
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Here we got then.
Dan Biggar drops out long. Michael Hooper gathers.
But the Welsh swarm like killer bees around the breakdown and it is turned over...
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Stirling Mortlock
Former Australia international on BBC Radio 5 Live
This match is finally here and we are pumped! I have been looking forward to this all week.
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Gareth Griffiths
BBC Sport Wales in Japan
The crowd is building nicely at the Tokyo Stadium and there appears to be more Australians here than Wales fans which is perhaps understandable.
But the Welsh fans who have made the trip are making a lot of noise as both sides run out.
This is going to be immense.
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It is the 130th time that Alun Wyn Jones has sung the Welsh national anthem pre-match. He still belts it out like a teenage debutant straining at the leash.
Advance Australia Fair might just get the nod on the decibel-meter though with a packed green and gold chorus line in the stands.
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Fans from both sides got to the ground nice and early to soak up the atmosphere of this special occasion.
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Stirling Mortlock
Former Australia international on BBC Radio 5 Live
The one thing you need at a World Cup is a great balance of experience and youthful exuberance. You want young guys who don't know this is a crazy environment, but you need stalwarts who every now and then say "right guys, let's go back to basics".
I was talking to some of the boys who said (35-year-old) Adam Ashley-Cooper is the second fastest in the side - I think they're telling porkies.
Late in my career, the one thing you do have is you're a little bit more wily and you're a little bit faster in your response, that can save you.
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Michael Hooper and Alun Wyn Jones - two men who are more scar tissue and cauliflower than flesh and blood - assemble their teams in the tunnel.
Both are wearing grim masks of concentration, both now the fire and fury that awaits in Tokyo Stadium.
Here come the drums. Here come the players.
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Dafydd Pritchard
BBC Sport Wales at Tokyo Stadium
International rugby union is brutally physical when you're fully fit, so imagine the pain of playing a whole match with a broken bone in your hand.
That's what Hadleigh Parkes is facing today but, as the Wales centre explains in his BBC Sport column this week, nothing will stop him from playing against Australia.
You can read Hadleigh's column here.
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Image source, Getty ImagesAustralia half-backs Will Genia and Bernard Foley are preferred to Nic White and Christian Lealiifano.
Dane Haylett-Petty comes in at full-back while Kurtley Beale drops to the bench.
Adam Ashley-Cooper replaces the suspended Reece Hodge on the right wing to win his 120th cap.
Australia: Haylett-Petty; Ashley-Cooper, O'Connor, Kerevi, Koroibete; Foley, Genia; Sio, Latu, Alaalatoa, Rodda, Arnold, Pocock, Naisarani, Hooper (C)
Replacements: Uelese, Slipper, Kepu, Coleman, Salakaia-Loto, White, To'omua, Beale.
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Image source, ReutersCaptain Alun Wyn Jones will become Wales' most capped player, winning his 130th Wales cap to surpass the previous record of prop Gethin Jenkins.
Gatland has kept faith with the starting side that defeated Georgia 43-14in the opening Pool D game.
Owen Watkin has come in for Leigh Halfpenny on bench.
Wales:L Williams; North, Jonathan Davies, Parkes, Adams; Biggar, G Davies; Wyn Jones, Owens, Francis, Ball, Alun Wyn Jones (C), Wainwright, Tipuric, Navidi.
Replacements:Smith, Dee, Lewis, Shingler, Moriarty, T Williams, Patchell, Watkin.
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Image source, GettyWales coach Warren Gatland speaking to ITV Sport: "I think we will see two teams that are pretty close on paper, we have had a good week and know how important tonight is.
"I think it is a sign of respect, thy might kick more than they used to and we have to watch Bernard Foley who is a threat but I think they are wary of our threat in the air where we have been good."
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Georgia are top of Pool D after their 33-7 win over Uruguay this morning.
The winners and runners-up of this group will play the runners-up and winners of Pool C, which contains England, France and Argentina.
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Gareth Griffiths
BBC Sport Wales in Tokyo
Image source, AFPCaptain Alun Wyn Jones will become his country's record cap holder against Australia when he plays his 130th Test for Wales, beating the previous best of prop Gethin Jenkins.
Jones, who has also played nine Tests for the British and Irish Lions on three tours, has been an inspirational figure since he made his international debut in 2006.
The Ospreys lock is playing in his fourth World Cup and it will be his 17th match in this tournament.
Impressive statistics for the Wales lock but not even those do justice to the influence Jones has had on this Wales team.
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Stirling Mortlock
Former Australia international on BBC Radio 5 Live
There has been an influx of Australian supporters for this match. It's going to be a huge game.
We know Australia don't have a good track record of playing England in World Cups and whoever wins this won't face England in the quarter-finals - and that is huge for Australia.
Australia have to attack and chance their arm with ball in hand. The most important aspect of the kicking will be from the nines. That's how to put pressure back on the opposition but that is not the forte of Will Genia.
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BBC Radio 5 Live
Image source, Getty ImagesThe first big match with big bearings on the rest of the tournament?
It just might be.
And build-up has already begun on BBC Radio 5 live with Sonja McLoughlin chatting to Stirling Mortlock, Andrew Mehrtens and Philippa Tuttiett.
Tune in at the top of this page or on your BBC Sounds app.
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Image source, Getty ImagesThat 2015 defeat was Wales' 11th consecutive defeat against the Australians, a run going back to 2008
Things have improved. But only recently.
After 32-8 and 29-21 defeats at the Millennium Stadium in 2016 and 2017, Wales finally ended the Wallabies' winning run on lucky 13 with a gritting 9-6 victory in November.
That was the teams' most recent meeting.