Ryan Hall hits 300 Career Tries

Ryan Hall made a significant slice of Rugby League history with his two tries in England’s World Cup win against France on Saturday.

The 34-year-old Hull KR wing, who extended his record tally of tries for England to 37 from 39 appearances, also joined an exclusive list comprising some of the all-time greats of the game to have scored 300 tries in his career – and became the first player to reach that milestone entirely in the summer era (since the introduction of the Super League in 1996).

Of the 31 players to have scored 300, only three – Shaun Edwards, Alan Hunte and Paul Newlove -have played in the 2000s, and all three scored the majority of their tries before 1996.

Hunte is 25^th on the all-time list with 314, Edwards is 21^st with 327, and Newlove is 18^th with 347 – all statistics having been provided by the recently relaunched Rugby League Record Keepers’ Club Rugby League Records

Hall made his Leeds Rhinos debut in 2007 and scored 233 of his tries in 330 Rhinos appearances until 2018.

Having added a further 31 tries from 47 appearances for Hull KR in the last two seasons, he is now second on the all-time list of Super League try-scorers with 226 – 21 behind his old Leeds and England team-mate Danny McGuire (who is also the record try-scorer for the Leeds club).

Hall is also in position to add further significant milestones in the coming weeks and months, with England and Hull KR.

His tally of 301 career tries leaves him one behind the former Salford and Wales wing Maurice Richards, and three behind the former Castleford and Great Britain half-back Alan Hardisty – so another four tries would lift him into the top 30, and another 15 would take him up to 23^rd.

Meanwhile his double against France took his tally of tries across three World Cups to 12, joint fourth on the all-time list with Australia’s Valentine Holmes – who also has the opportunity to add to his haul in the current tournament, as both he and Hall chase Bob Fulton (13), Jarryd Hayne (14) and Billy Slater (16).

The all-time list of record try-scorers is printed below – including Great Britain’s 1972 World Cup winning captain Clive Sullivan in ninth with 406, with Ellery Hanley and Martin Offiah also in the top ten, and Brian Bevan’s incredible tally of 796 remaining impregnable in the far distance.