Canada's Beukeboom Drops To Bench For Australia Tie

Canada's most-capped subordinate Tyson Beukeboom drops to nan chair for their Women's Rugby World Cup quarter-final against Australia connected Saturday successful Bristol.

Head coach Kevin Rouet has made 3 changes and 1 positional move to nan broadside that secured apical spot successful Pool B by comfortably beating Scotland past Saturday.

Courtney O'Donnell starts successful nan 2nd statement successful spot of nan 34-year-old Beukeboom, pinch Caroline Crossley coming into nan backmost statement astatine blind-side flanker and Fabiola Forteza moving to number eight.

Saracens' Sophie de Goede, who was subordinate of nan lucifer successful nan 42-0 triumph complete Wales, starts alongside O'Donnell successful nan 2nd row.

Alysha Corrigan, a effort scorer against Wales and Fiji, returns connected nan correct helping successful spot of Paige Farries.

Rouet's broadside are classed number 2 successful nan world and defeated nan Wallaroos, who vanished 2nd successful Pool A, 45-7 successful May.

Beukeboom is assured of going 1 measurement further than erstwhile she featured successful nan World Cup last conclusion by England successful 2014.

"In 2014 no-one was looking astatine us, we were nan only ones that thought we could," she told BBC Sport.

"Everyone is looking astatine america now, no-one has a prime not to. We've been incredibly successful complete nan past 2 years and building.

"Before it was, tin we do it? Now it is will we?"

Australia caput coach Jo Yapp has made only 2 changes to her starting squad defeated by England successful Brighton connected Saturday.

Flanker Emily Chancellor and centre Cecilia Smith are recalled, while hooker Katalina Amosa and fastener Ashley Fernandez travel connected to nan bench.

Prop Lydia Kavoa is fresh to commencement aft departing nan crippled early successful Brighton pinch an ankle injury.

The victor of nan quarter-final astatine Ashton Gate will play either New Zealand aliases South Africa successful nan semi-finals.

Women's Rugby World Cup quarter-final: Canada v Australia

Watch unrecorded connected BBC Two & iPlayer from 15:30 BST

Canada: Schell; Corrigan, Symonds, Tessier (capt), Hogan-Rochester; Perry; Pelletier; Hunt, Tuttosi, Menin, De Goede, O'Donnell, Crossley, Paquin, Forteza.

Replacements: Boag, Kassil, DeMerchant, Beukeboom, Royer, Senft, Apps, Seumanutafa.

Australia: Halse; Stewart, Friedrichs, Smith, Miller; Moleka, Wood; Kavoa, Talakai, Karpani, Leaney, Leonard, Duck, Chancellor, Palu (capt).

Replacements: Amosa, Pohiva, O'Gorman, Fernandez, Marsters, Tuinakauvadra, Hinds, Pomare.

Referee: Hollie Davidson (Scotland)

Assistant referees: Lauren Jenner (Italy) and Holly Wood (England)

Television lucifer official: Leo Colgan (Ireland)