Super League: Leigh Leopards 6-34 Wigan Warriors: Jai Field & Bevan French shine in derby win

Jai Field and Bevan French were key, arsenic was Harry Smith arsenic Wigan roared to triumph astatine Leigh Sports Village.

Australian duo Jai Field and Bevan French proved the quality arsenic Wigan took power successful the 2nd fractional and overpowered section rivals Leigh Leopards successful a full-pelt Super League derby.

Warriors' Jake Wardle, Abbas Miski doubly and Toby King besides crossed.

Leigh scored the archetypal points with Tom Briscoe's try, but were further denied.

The lone sour enactment to Matt Peet's nighttime arsenic Wigan caput manager was seeing the influential Field limp disconnected with a hamstring wounded with astir 13 minutes to play.

Leigh welcomed their rivals to the Sports Village connected the backmost of a noteworthy commencement to the campaign, with a 'Leopards' rebrand nether charismatic proprietor Derek Beaumont and a high-profile drawstring of pre-match amusement guests.

Their signifier nether ex-Wigan brag Adrian Lam has besides been awesome with wins implicit champions St Helens and some Hull clubs, and this lucifer was billed arsenic the 'Battle of the Borough'.

However, the upwardly mobile Leopards were fixed a acquisition successful handling the play rigours of Super League by a battle-hardened Wigan broadside retired to beryllium a point.

Briscoe's opening try, the 200th of his career, was an accumulation of the people wrong their ranks with fastener John Asiata, full-back Gareth O'Brien and half-back Lachlan Lam slicing the Cherry and Whites unfastened with crisp hands.

However, a precocious changeable connected O'Brien by Wardle led to him going disconnected for a caput wounded appraisal and the Wigan centre sin-binned.

Leigh passed up opportunities passim the crippled with Edwin Ipape stopped conscionable short, French grounding a Lam footwear to contradict a spirited chase, and a precocious dink ricocheting down contempt a sterling chase.

Wigan nevertheless took their chances clinically, with French's kicking and catch-and-pass creating scores for Wardle and Miski - the erstwhile coming disconnected a charge-down that saw him pain disconnected the chasers and measurement a clip implicit the past enactment of defence to score.

His ain effort was a show-and-go that took him consecutive done the line, akin to Field's turbo-powered efforts.

Harry Smith had a mixed nighttime disconnected the tee, but his kicking from manus and crippled absorption was excellent, guiding the visitors astir brilliantly and nailing a 40-20 for the opening score.

Wigan present caput for different derby adjacent week implicit Easter, welcoming St Helens to the DW Stadium connected Good Friday; Leigh play Salford connected the Saturday.

Leigh: O'Brien; Briscoe, Hardaker, Leutele, Charnley; Reynolds, Lam; Amone, Ipape, Mulhern, Holmes, O'Donnell, Asiata.

Interchanges: Nakubuwai, Seumanufagai, Chamberlain, Davis.

Wigan: French; King, Pearce-Paul, Wardle, Miski; Field, Smith; Cooper, Powell, Byrne, Isa, Farrell, Smithies.

Interchanges: Ellis, Havard, O'Neill, Shorrocks.

Referee: Liam Moore (RFL)

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