Wales v Australia live: Rugby World Cup – score updates, tries and reaction - BBC Sport

Summary

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

Live Reporting

Mike Henson

Carnival atmospherepublished at 08:05 British Summer Time 29 September 2019
Wales v Australia (08:45 BST)
Dafydd Pritchard
BBC Sport Wales at Tokyo Stadium
There's a great carnival atmosphere outside Tokyo Stadium as Welsh and Australian fans mingle before their teams do battle.
Among them is Bak-san, the Japanese super-fan who paints teams' shirts on his body, and the Hooper and Cattle families, who will return to Wales next week but are hoping to come back to Japan if Warren Gatland's men reach the semi-finals.
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Remember the last time?published at 08:00 British Summer Time 29 September 2019
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The great wall of OZ.
The last time these two met they were both at the Rugby World Cup they were already assured of their places in the last eight.
Hosts England had already shot themselves in their own foot with a ceremonial party popper and the final Pool A game was just a sort-out of who would play who in the quarter-finals.
In the end it was decided by a period of extraordinary period of siege defence in which the Wallabies, reduced to 13 men by yellow cards for Dean Mumm and Will Genia, held strong on their own line to pave the way to a 15-6 victory.