Summary

  • Listen to BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra commentary

  • Match is 70 minutes long as per NRLW rules

  • England meet Australia for first time since 2017

  • Test is part of four-match rugby league showcase in Las Vegas

  • World champions Australia have lost just once since 2016

  • England have lost once since 2019 - to New Zealand in World Cup semi-final three years ago

Live Reporting

Jay Freeman

  1. Bye bye for now

    FT: England 4-90 Australia

    And so that brings down the curtain on English involvement in the 2025 Rugby League Las Vegas event.

    From the entertainment of Wigan v Warrington earlier to a bleak England display against Australia, it's certainly been a night of contrasts.

    You have to hope the next time the Jillaroos and Lionesses meet, perhaps England will be able to bridge the gulf in class.

    But this is where we must leave you for now.

    To all the insomniacs, rugby league anoraks and people with newborns who've followed through our coverage tonight, thanks very much for joining us.

  2. FT: England 4-90 Australia

    Craig Wall
    BBC Sport, at Allegiant Stadium

    England players are doing a lap of honour, and receiving warm applause from the England fans.

  3. FT: England 4-90 Australia

    Craig Wall
    BBC Sport, at Allegiant Stadium

    Georgia Roche is in tears on the pitch at full-time. She is embraced by England coach Stuart Barrow and the Australian players.

  4. Full time

    England 4-90 Australia

    And so this Test ends with Australia winning by a massive margin over England.

    I make that 17 tries for the Jillaroos with three players registering a hat-trick (or better) of tries.

    Georgia Roche's score - with the last play of the game - salvages a bit of pride for Stuart Barrow's side after what must have been a brutally disheartening evening in Las Vegas.

  5. England 4-90 Australia

    Craig Wall
    BBC Sport, at Allegiant Stadium

    The Allegiant Stadium erupts. It's the biggest cheer of the night with two seconds to go.

  6. try

    TRY: England 4-90 Australia

    Georgia Roche

    ENGLAND HAVE SCORED!

    Georgia Roche, no stranger to the NRLW having won in the 2023 Grand Final, shows some incredible strength to outstretch her right arm to get the ball over the line in the midst of a tackle.

    The crowd goes wild. But the conversion hits the post.

  7. England 0-90 Australia

    England have possession with just over a minute left on the clock.

    Can they do something with it? At this point why not go for a drop goal, even?

  8. England 0-90 Australia

    Matthew Elliott
    Former Bradford Bulls head coach on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    You've got to feel for these England players. This is not a nice thing to experience on the international stage with 40,000 people in the stadium.

  9. try

    TRY: England 0-90 Australia

    Keilee Joseph, goal Tarryn Aiken

    Australia break the 90-point barrier.

    Keilee Joseph is sent through and crosses over under the sticks.

    Tarryn Aiken successfully kicks the conversion.

  10. try

    TRY: England 0-84 Australia

    Jess Sergis, goal Tarryn Aiken

    A Jess Sergis hat-trick of tries.

    She joins Tamika Upton and Julia Robinson in bagging three or more tries tonight.

    England can't stop her and she shows great power and pace to run through, although by this point the Lionesses aren't able to put up much of a fight.

    Tarryn Aiken kicks the extras again.

  11. England 0-78 Australia

    Georgia Roche puts in a speculative kick in to goal which bobbles out of play.

    I think that just about sums up England's evening, really.

    If they were going to avoid a nilling, that was their chance.

  12. England 0-78 Australia

    Ooh er, an uncharacteristic Australia error.

    Julia Robinson knocks on from the restart and England, for the first time in ages, win a set of six.

    And not just that, in a useful area, deep in the Jillaroos' half.

  13. try

    TRY: England 0-78 Australia

    Jess Sergis, goal Tarryn Aiken

    Jess Sergis scores a second try for Australia.

    She receives the ball in a crowded England 10 but still somehow manages to bully her way through a crowd of bodies and runs through to touch down.

    Tarryn Aiken successfully kicks the added two points. Australia are 14 points off equalling their record high score in a competitive fixture.

  14. DISALLOWED TRY

    England 0-72 Australia

    There is indeed a double movement and the try is correctly not given.

    And so it remains England nil, Australia...72.

  15. TRY REVIEW

    England 0-72 Australia

    Jakiya Whitfeld is down again in the corner and Australia are claiming a possible try.

    But is there a double movement in the build-up?

  16. England 0-72 Australia

    England are challenging a call of knock on on the field after they seemed to regain possession.

    The challenge is unsuccessful. Not sure I agree with the call but at this point why not challenge it?

  17. try

    TRY: England 0-72 Australia

    Jakiya Whitfeld

    Yep. Another Australia try.

    Jakiya Whitfeld shows incredible strength to shrug off a tackle from Anna Davies to dot down in the corner.

    Tarryn Aiken misses a try conversion from the sideline.

  18. England 0-68 Australia

    You can give this all the context you like.

    But you have to feel for England at this point. This must be tremendously disheartening.

  19. England 0-68 Australia

    Craig Wall
    BBC Sport, at Allegiant Stadium

    This is a chastening evening for England. The England bench looks completely shell-shocked. Australia have been on a different level tonight.

  20. try

    TRY: England 0-68 Australia

    Jess Sergis, goal Tarryn Aiken

    Australia are causing England so many problems.

    Pretty much every time the game restarts after an Australia try, they score another.

    This time it's Jess Sergis who races in following a move on the left which came after a tremendous Tarryn Aiken pass.

    Aiken then converts the try she set up.