Radio Sport Breakfast

New Zealand will host the 2021 women's Rugby World Cup, or to be more accurate Auckland and Whangarei.New Zealand was overnight awarded the hosting rights to the tournament, the first to be staged in the Southern Hemisphere.Matches will be staged in Auckland and Whangarei - Waitakere Stadium, the Northland Events Centre and Albany - from July to August, with the final and, possibly, semifinals to be played at Eden Park.All 12 teams will experience the same training facilities and hotels used to host the 2011 World Cup and last year's British and Irish Lions tour.New Zealand Rugby chief executive Steve Tew told the Radio Sport Breakfast they looked at the option of holding games throughout the country but it proved unfeasible."We made an early decision that the bid would not be successful if we tried to play it across the country."It would have been logistically difficult for the players and also very expensive to run so therefore much more difficult to balance," Tew said."So we went out effectively to the mar