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World No.1 would sit better if they ever beat NZ

Back in action: Leigh Halfpenny

PETER JACKSON VERDICT

Beating England to win Grand Slams and Triple Crowns has long been a way of life for Wales through the ages. Their prize for beating them yesterday almost defied belief.
It put them where no Welsh team has ever gone before, to No 1 in the official rankings as devised, for better or worse, by World Rugby. International sport has never wasted any time bothering about logic and what happened here will have sent waves of consternation rolling around the Cook Strait.
The Kiwis will have woken to the distressing news that, after 12 years...

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