Watch Ireland v Wales Live on 8th Oct 2011: Rugby World Cup Live

Watch Ireland v Wales Live on 8th Oct 2011, Rugby World Cup Live from New Zealand. Ireland have been buoyed by news Rory Best will be fit to tackle Wales in the Rugby World Cup quarter-final in Wellington on Saturday.

Watch Ireland v Wales Live on 8th Oct 2011, Rugby World Cup Live  text commentary, scores and report on BBC website; updates on BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio 5 live; watch live on ITV1 & S4C (Welsh language), live commentary on BBC Radio Cymru (Welsh language) & TalkSport radio but also on TF1.

Starting Teams:


Ireland: 15 Robert Kearney, 14 Tommy Bowe13 Brian O'Driscoll (capt), 12 Gordon D'Arcy, 11 Keith Earls, 10 Ronan O'Gara, 9 Conor Murray, 8 Jamie Heaslip, 7 Sean O'Brien  6 Stephen Ferris, 5 Paul O'Connell, 4 Donncha O'Callaghan, 3 Mike Ross, 2 Rory Best, 1 Cian Healy.
Replacements: 16 Sean Cronin, 17 Tom Court, 18 Donnacha Ryan, 19 Denis Leamy, 20 Eoin Reddan, 21 Jonathan Sexton, 22 Andrew Trimble.

Wales: 15 Leigh Halfpenny, 14 George North, 13 Jonathan Davies, 12 Jamie Roberts, 11 Shane Williams, 10 Rhys Priestland, 9 Mike Phillips, 8 Toby Faletau, 7 Sam Warburton (capt), 6 Dan Lydiate, 5 Alun Wyn Jones, 4 Luke Charteris, 3 Adam Jones, 2 Huw Bennett, 1 Gethin Jenkins.
Replacements: 16 Lloyd Burns, 17 Paul James, 18 Bradley Davies, 19 Ryan Jones, 20 Lloyd Williams, 21 James Hook, 22 Scott Williams

Watch Australia v Ireland Live on 17/09/2011:

Watch Australia v Ireland Live on 17/09/2011, Rugby World Cup Live. Australia are facing an anxious wait over the fitness of David Pocock for the must-win clash with Ireland in Auckland. Ireland will be buoyed by the return of key trio Sean O'Brien, Rob Kearney and Cian Healy for the encounter.

Watch Australia v Ireland Live on 17/09/2011, Rugby World Cup Live score and match report on BBC Sport website; updates on BBC Radio 5 live; watch live on ITV1/ITV4, live commentary on TalkSport radio but also on TF1.



Starting teams:

Australia: 15 Kurtley Beale, 14 James O'Connor, 13 Anthony Fainga'a, 12 Pat McCabe, 11 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 10 Quade Cooper, 9 Will Genia, 8 Radike Samo, 7 David Pocock, 6 Rocky Elsom, 5 James Horwill (capt), 4 Dan Vickerman, 3 Ben Alexander, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 Sekope Kepu.
Replacements:16 Tatafu Polota Nau, 17 James Slipper, 18 Rob Simmons, 19 Ben McCalman, 20 Scott Higginbotham, 21 Luke Burgess, 22 Drew Mitchell.

Ireland: 15 R Kearney, 14 T Bowe, 13 B O'Driscoll (capt), 12 G D'Arcy, 11 K Earls, 10 J Sexton, 9 E Reddan, 1 C Healy, 2 R Best, 3 M Ross, 4 D O'Callaghan, 5 P O'Connell, 6 S Ferris, 7 S O'Brien, 8 J Heaslip.
Replacements: 16 J Flannery, 17 T Court, 18 D Ryan, 19 D Leamy, 20 C Murray, 21 R O'Gara, 22 A Trimble.

Watch Ireland v United States live on 11 September: Rugby World Cup 2011

Ireland v United States live on Sunday 11 September, Ireland coach Declan Kidney has sprung a surprise by picking Conor Murray at scrum-half for Sunday's World Cup opener against the USA.

Watch Ireland v United States live on 11 September: Rugby World Cup 2011 Scores and reports on the BBC Sport website plus live text commentaries on selected games including all home nations matches; updates on BBC Radio 5 live; watch live on ITV1/ITV4; listen on TalkSport radio but also on TF1.

Starting Teams:

Ireland: G Murphy; T Bowe, B O'Driscoll, G D'Arcy, K Earls, J Sexton, C Murray, T Court, R Best, M Ross, D O'Callaghan, P O'Connell, S Ferris, S Jennings, J Heaslip.

Replacements: J Flannery, T Buckley, D Ryan, D Leamy, E Reddan, R O'Gara, A Trimble.

USA: B Scully; T Ngwenya, P Emerick, A Suniula, J Paterson; R Suniula, M Petri; M MacDonald, P Thiel, S Pittman, J van der Giessen, H Smith, L Stanfill, T Clever (capt), N Johnson.

Replacements: C Biller, M Moeakiola, S LaValla, P Danahy, T Usasz, N Malifa, C Hawley.

Watch Ireland v United States live on 11 September: Rugby World Cup 2011 Scores and reports on the BBC Sport website plus live text commentaries on selected games including all home nations matches; updates on BBC Radio 5 live; watch live on ITV1/ITV4; listen on TalkSport radio but also on TF1.

Rugby World Cup 2011: guess who's back for England ?

Andrew Sheridan will return to the England side for Saturday's final World Cup warm-up match against Ireland.

The 31-year-old missed the opening two warm-ups after summer shoulder surgery.

England will test a new centre pairing of Mike Tindall and Manu Tuilagi, while Chris Ashton returns on the wing and flanker James Haskell is fit to start.

Jonny Wilkinson and Richard Wigglesworth form a new half-back combination and scrum-half Joe Simpson could make his debut off the bench.

The team features six changes from the 19-9 defeat by Wales in Cardiff and provides the strongest indication yet of manager Martin Johnson's first choice World Cup side.

Steve Thompson gets the nod over Dylan Hartley to continue at hooker alongside Sheridan and Dan Cole, while Louis Deacon and Courtney Lawes are paired together at lock with Tom Palmer not even in the 22, Simon Shaw on the bench.