The 'top five' tries from the opening weekend of the Rugby World Cup, featuring Japan's heroic effort

The opening weekend of the World Cup has been a memorable one.

There have been tries aplenty as the world's elite rugby nations have began to battle it out for the Web Ellis trophy.

Host nation England secured a valuable victory over Fiji at Twickenham before Japan stunned the globe with a narrow win over former champions South Africa.

Few fans, or experts, would even have given Eddie Jones' side a puncher's chance prior to kick off but the Japanese pulled off a result that could go down as the biggest upset in team sport at international level. Yes, it was that big a result.

Meanwhile, Wales eased past Argentina, France saw off Italy and Georgia edged past Tonga.

Elsewhere, Argentina made a fist of it against favourites New Zealand while Ireland thumped Canada into touch.

But how do you rate the best scores that we have witnessed so far? It's a difficult task but there can be little debate about the most important; Karne Hesketh's heroci effort for the Japanese was worth so much more than five points.

You can who else made the cut in the video below.

Soak it in, but don't worry, we've got another five weeks of this....