Papua New Guinea Kumuls have overcome a early scare from the Cook Islands by beating them 32 to 16 in round 2 of the Rugby League World cup match played at Halliwell Jones Stadium in Warrington, UK. Only two points separated the two rugby league nations at half-time, but the second stanza was all the Kumuls, running in four tries in 27 minutes to put themselves back on track for a quarter-final campaign. PNG kumuls five-eight Kyle Labutt Celebrates a try [Photo by PNG LNG Kumuls media] The Kumuls opened their account in the 14th minute when Rodrick Tai left the Kukis defenders in his wake and ran 80 metres to score a sensational PNG try. Come the 23rd minute and PNG had their second try when five-eighth Kyle Laybutt jinked and danced his way across the defensive line 10 metres out before crashing right of the uprights to score. PNG went down to 12 men with 12 minutes to go in the first half when prop Mackenzie Yei was sin binned for a dangerous tackle. Wasting no time capitalising