OITA: England coach Eddie Jones toasted “runaway rhino” Kyle Sinckler after the rampaging prop scored his first international try in Saturday’s 40-16 World Cup quarter-final rout of Australia.
Sinckler proved an unlikely hero for England after the Wallabies had pulled to within a point in Oita, crashing over after a slick pass from skipper Owen Farrell to spark a run of 23 unanswered points for Jones’s side, who face defending champions New Zealand in next week’s semi-finals.
“He scrummed really well,” Australia Jones said of his tighthead.
“He found himself in an advanced attacking position (for his try) and got a great pass from Owen and then he was a runaway rhino. I’m really impressed by how hard he is working at improving his game.”
The 26-year-old is not the only “rhino” in the England team — fellow prop Ellis Genge was once described by a television commentator as charging “like a baby rhino with a dart up its backside” after flattening former England captain Dylan Hartley in the Premiership. – AFP
