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Yesterday Women’s Rugby World Cup winning Red Roses wing Abby Dow announced her retirement from rugby aged 28.
England Red Roses face off against Italy Women in Womens Six Nations Round 1 on Sun 23rd March 2025 at LNER Community Stadium. Kick-off in the UK is scheduled for 15:00 and is broadcast on BBC iPlayer, BBC. In South Africa it’s at 17:00 SAST on SuperSport, 04:00 NZST on Sky Sport, Sky Sport Now, Sky Go in New Zealand, 02:00 AEST on Stan Sport in Australia and 08:00 EST in the US.
England Red Roses won the last encounter but England Red Roses are in the best form of their last 5 games.
Heading into the fixture, England Red Roses sits at 1 in the World Rugby Rankings, while Italy Women holds 9.
The two sides are separated by 8 places in the rankings with England Red Roses in position 1 and Italy Women in position 9 as such England Red Roses are favourites on paper.
The official squads for England Red Roses vs Italy Women will become available around 24- 48 hours before kick-off. Teams can still make changes up to an hour before the match however.
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Sign up for freeYesterday Women’s Rugby World Cup winning Red Roses wing Abby Dow announced her retirement from rugby aged 28.
England's World Cup-winning wing Abby Dow has announced her retirement from rugby at the age of 28.
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A wonderful passing move by England is finished off by Emma Sing
Emma Sing does the business as their conversion attempt goes over.
The pick and go results in a try for England as Amy Cokayne goes over.
The Italy maul pushes over the tryline as Francesca Sgorbini scores.
Claudia MacDonald gathers the kick to score the try for England.
Laura Gurioli (Italy) is shown a yellow card
Emma Sing has kicked a conversion.
England are only a few metres out, surely they must score! And they do with Emily Scarratt touching down.
Emma Sing has kicked a conversion.
Great hands by England leads to a try for Mia Venner