Wales 41 Canada 10
Wales achieved a triple bonus to kick off their World cup campaign at the Telstra Stadium in Melbourne on Sunday - a comfortable victory, an extra point for scoring more than tries and the blossoming of Iestyn Harris into a genuine world-class player.
The performance may not have been perfect, but if anyone suggested such an outcome to under-pressure coach Steve Hansen 24 hours earlier, he'd have happily taken it.
In fact he was, for him, positively beaming after the match, answering anything and everything thrown at him and giving separate interviews to the New Zealand media, though the Kiwis are not exactly shaking in their boots at the prospect of facing Wales in in the final match of Pool D.
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