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• Wales captain Dan Biggar believes that next year’s World Cup is “very much a level playing field” after northern hemisphere nations served emphatic notice of their credentials mobile
  
  England remain the only European country to be crowned world champions following a Jonny Wilkinson-inspired triumph in Australia 19 years ago mobile
  
  And while there is still more than a year before rugby union’s next global extravaganza takes centre-stage, the form guide is taking tantalising shape mobile
  
  Ireland’s first victory over the All Blacks in New Zealand, England beating Australia in Brisbane, Wales ending 58 years of hurt on South African soil and Scotland toppling Argentina away from home represented a staggering super Saturday mobile
  
  All four touring teams now enter series deciders next Saturday, while the sport’s world rankings are set for a considerable power-shift mobile
  
  RecommendedWimbledon highlights day 12Dan Biggar hails ‘huge achievement’ of Wales’ first away win over SpringboksLate drama sees Wales claim historic first victory over Springboks in South Africa“It is really exciting looking forward to 12 months or so time in France,” Biggar said after Wales toppled the world champions 13-12 in Bloemfontein mobile
  
  “There is not really one stand-out team going into the World Cup, as there has been the last couple of times probably where New Zealand have been streets ahead of everyone mobile
  
  “It is very much a level playing field, and anyone can beat anyone mobile
  
  ”A week after pushing South Africa to the limit in a first Test thriller, Wales levelled the series when Gareth Anscombe kicked a touchline conversion two minutes from time after fellow substitute Josh Adams claimed his 20th Test try mobile
  
  It was Wales’ first victory over the Springboks in South Africa, arriving at the 12th attempt, and came little more than three months after Biggar and company were defeated by Italy in Cardiff mobile
  
  “Credit to Wayne (Wales head coach Pivac) and the management that we probably didn’t over-react to the end of the Six Nations,” added Biggar, who took a blow to his shoulder and went off early in the second half at Toyota Stadium mobile
  
  “We definitely should have won against France, we could have won against England and we were obviously disappointed with the way things finished (against Italy) mobile
  
  “We stuck true to our guns and game-plan in terms of what we are trying to achieve mobile
  
  “I think professional sport is so cut-throat mobile
  
  When you lose, those defeats tend to last for months and months, as opposed to sometimes your victories are over before you blink mobile
  
  “There have been some very, very good Wales teams to have come here and been sent packing mobile
  
  We are a really tight-knit group, and everyone deserves a pat on the back mobile
  
  ”Gareth Anscombe (far right) celebrates Wales’ victory with team-mates (Themba Hadebe/AP) (AP)For matchwinner Anscombe, whose strike set up a series decider in Cape Town next Saturday, it proved a particularly sweet occasion following his long fight to overcome a career-threatening knee injury mobile
  
  He missed the 2019 World Cup and more than two years of Test rugby, before returning against New Zealand last autumn mobile
  
  “Last week was two years to the day when I had the surgery, the osteotomy, and it wasn’t about whether I was going to play again, it was whether I was going to run,” Anscombe told www mobile
  
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  “There were so many unknowns, and it is just a bit of a ‘pinch me’ moment that I am here mobile
  
  My last big surgery – my third – was on July 7, 2020, and that was when everything got turned upside down mobile
  
  “That effort, that kick, is the culmination of so many people’s work mobile
  
  I am just glad I was able to step up when I was supposed to and just do my job mobile
  
  RecommendedWayne Pivac urges Wales to show ‘a lot more discipline’ against South AfricaTomas Francis to miss Wales’ remaining Tests in South Africa due to concussionHooker Dewi Lake confident Wales can bounce back against South Africa“Maybe I had the rugby gods on my side mobile
  
  I am just glad that I could play a part in this group achieving something pretty special mobile
  
  ”Anscombe missed the birth of his baby son Theo last month, having left it as late as possible in agreement with Pivac to leave for the South Africa tour, and he added: “It will be nice to show him this in 10 years’ time and say ‘this is why dad missed it’! Hopefully, he will understand mobile
  
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  Former England head coach Eddie Jones insists containing Finn Russell holds the key to relieving Scotland of the Calcutta Cup at Twickenham on Saturday mobile
  
  Jones was involved in seven editions of the Six Nations before being sacked in December in response to a dire 2022 and his overall record against Scotland reads three wins and a draw in seven meetings mobile
  
  The 63-year-old is backing England to win by three points with Owen Farrell kicking the decisive penalty, but he believes the Scots’ fate lies in the hands of their mercurial fly-half Russell mobile
  
  Referencing the Lions playmaker’s stormy relationship with his head coach Gregor Townsend, Jones views his presence as offering the potential for death or glory for Saturday’s underdogs mobile
  
  “Gregor Townsend was an older version of Finn Russell and that’s probably why him and Finn Russell don’t get on,” recently appointed Australia boss Jones told the podcast ‘EDDIE’ mobile
  
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