History was made in the oldest international rugby fixture yesterday.

Kay Wilson: history-maker
It is the most number of tries scored by one player in a women’s international rugby match.
Wilson, 25, has amassed 41 caps since making her international debut in 2011, in a career which includes being in the side which won the Women’s Rugby World Cup in 2014 and being a travelling reserve with the Great Britain 7s team which narrowly missed out on a medal at the Rio Olympic Games last year.
But she started in the sport playing mini-rugby at Hamsey Green. Without any women’s teams at Warlingham, Wilson moved on once mixed rugby was no longer possible, and had a couple of seasons at Richmond after finishing her university studies at Cardiff, and she’s recently returned to play for the south-west London club.
She’s made several return visits to her old club recently, where there is now a thriving and growing section for girls to play rugby through their teens.

Back to her roots: Wilson has returned several times to help at her first club, Warlingham, with its growing girls section
Like England’s men, Wilson and England’s women’s team travel to Dublin next weekend for the Six Nations Championship decider against Ireland.
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