England power past Wallabies

England ran out emphatic 30-6 victors over Australia in a November Test series clash in poor conditions at Twickenham on Saturday.

England showed great resilience on defence and an ability to counter-attack, forcing the opposition in to errors which they are good at capitalising on.

England's substitutes came to the fore late in the game with Danny Care in particular having a major impact.

Tries from Elliot Daly, Jonathan Joseph and Jonny May proved too much for Australia who were kept scoreless except for a penalty apiece from Reece Hodge and Bernard Foley.

Owen Farrell gave England an early 3-0 lead with a penalty.

The Wallabies looked the more threatening of the two sides on attack and were unlucky not to get themselves a try for their efforts when just as it looked if Michael Hooper had scored, it was ruled out by the TMO for offside.

Heavy rain persisted throughout and the wet conditions made handling difficult and halted both sides' momentum on attack resulting in a stop-start encounter.

Skipper Hooper was then yellow-carded with 32 minutes gone on the clock for repeated infringements.  England extended the lead to 6-0 from the resulting penalty courtesy of Farrell's right boot.

The Wallabies were then reduced to 13 men when Kurtley Beale saw yellow for his deliberate knockdown on the stroke of half-time.

Hodge's well-struck penalty from forty metres out eight minutes in to the second half saw the Wallabies cut the deficit to three at 6-3.

Daly was the first to get to George Ford's kick ahead after Tevita Kuridrani had spilt the ball on a Wallabies' attack.  Daly controlled the ball well keeping it in field and diving on top of it.  Farrell added the extras as England took a 13-3 lead on the 55-minute mark much to the delight of the home support.

Joseph got himself on the try column when he ran on to an expertly weighted box-kick from substitute scrum-half Care to slide over in the wet.  Farrell added the extras to give the hosts a 20-6 lead.

And May put the game beyond doubt when he chased down Care's deft grubber kick and cut inside to finish emphatically.

Having assisted two tries, Care got in on the act by getting himself on the try column in the closing stages after another kick through, this time from May to close out the match at 30-6.

The scorers:

For England:
Tries:  Daly, Joseph, May, Care
Cons:  Farrell 2
Pens:  Farrell 2

For Australia:
Pens:  Hodge, Foley

England:  15 Anthony Watson, 14 Jonny May, 13 Jonathan Joseph, 12 Owen Farrell, 11 Elliot Daly, 10 George Ford, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Nathan Hughes, 7 Sam Underhill, 6 Chris Robshaw, 5 Courtney Lawes, 4 Joe Launchbury, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Dylan Hartley (c), 1 Mako Vunipola
Replacements:  16 Jamie George, 17 Joe Marler, 18 Harry Williams, 19 Maro Itoje, 20 Sam Simmonds, 21 Danny Care, 22 Henry Slade, 23 Semesa Rokoduguni

Australia:  15 Kurtley Beale, 14 Marika Koroibete, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Samu Kerevi, 11 Reece Hodge, 10 Bernard Foley, 9 Will Genia, 8 Sean McMahon, 7 Michael Hooper (c), 6 Ned Hanigan, 5 Blake Enever, 4 Rob Simmons, 3 Sekope Kepu, 2 Tatafu Polota-Nau, 1 Scott Sio
Replacements:  16 Stephen Moore, 17 Tom Robertson, 18 Allan Alaalatoa, 19 Matt Philip, 20 Ben McCalman, 21 Lopeti Timani, 22 Nick Phipps, 23 Karmichael Hunt

Referee:  Ben O’Keeffe (New Zealand)
Assistant referees:  Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa), George Clancy (Ireland)
TMO:  Simon McDowell (Ireland)