New Zealand........17 France...................18
 

France turned the tables on New Zealand by ending the Black Ferns’ 16-game win streak with a clinical performance against the hosts.
Despite a young side heading to New Zealand for WXV 1, with an average age of just 23 in the starting XV, they were able to get the better of the Black Ferns in Wellington.
Emilie Boulard finished off a length-of-the-field counter-attack after Marine Ménager’s interception to open the scoring.
New Zealand struck back through Liana Mikaele-Tu’u but were then undone by a brilliant try off the back of a scrum on h...