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ENGLAND became the first ever Physical Disability Rugby League world champions at the Halliwell Jones Stadium on Sunday.
They beat New Zealand 42-10 to win the PDRL World Cup, which has wholly been held in Warrington.
Victoria Park hosted the group stages, with England winning all four of their games.
Wales and Australia were the other two teams in the tournament, with Wales denied their place in the final by a technical infringement.
It was previously revealed that Wales had committed an unintended technical breach. This breach was in regard to the ability classification level of the players onfield; in PDRL, ability is divided into three categories, and denoted by specific sock colours. There can be only a specific number of players per sock colour on the field at a time. The Welsh coach attributed the infraction of this rule to “miscommunications across the board”.
Wales beat Australia 32-18 in the third placed play-off at Victoria Park earlier on Sunday afternoon.
England and New Zealand took centre stage, following on from Samoa’s emphatic win over France in the men’s World Cup.
🔥 England PDRL are on fire!
🌬️ Sam Zellar spots space on the right edge and races away to score England's second try!
— Rugby Football League (@TheRFL) October 30, 2022
England led 16-4 at half time and ended up running away with it in the second half to put their name in the history books as the first ever winners.
England’s tries were scored by Nick Lynch, captain Scott Gobin, Sam Zeller, Tommy Pouncey, Adam Fleming and Nick Kennedy.
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