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All Blacks hammer England with early onslaught

ENGLAND’S ambition of winning next year’s World Cup on home soil lay in ruins as they lost 36-13 yesterday in Hamilton in the third rugby test to a New Zealand team which completed a sweep of the three-test series and posted a world record 17th-straight test win.

The confidence England evinced after the first two tests, that they were developing a team capable of matching the world’s best, was exposed as a pipe dream by an All Blacks team which scored five tries to one.

Winger Julian Savea and scrumhalf Aaron Smith both scored first half doubles as New Zealand took a 29-6 lead to halftime. Savea completed his hat trick in second-half injury time.

“That first half is as good a you’ll see,” New Zealand coach Steve Hansen said. “It’s like the wheels fell off the train a bit in the second half.

In Sydney, Will Skelton made his presence felt as the Wallabies won their seventh straight match 39-13 to sweep their three-test series against France.

Skelton scored a try and laid on one for Israel Folau as the Wallabies cleaned up Les Bleus five tries to one.


 

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