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Tri-Nations and Bledisloe champions.

The All Blacks have beaten Australia for the Tri Nations aswell as the Bledisloe Cup. The All blacks were down 10-7 at half time but manged to win 28-24.

In the 12th minute of the match, Sitiveni Sivivatu makes a run through the line and gets a free kick. The ball is quickly run up by Jimmy Cowan and the All Blacks quickly passed the ball to the right, Muliaina gets the ball and scores in the corner which is converted by Dan Carter. In the 39th minute Australian Ashley- Cooper skips through a tackle and scores in the corner which is converted in the 40th minute by Matt Giteau converts which gave the Wallabies the lead.

Four minutes after half time, Matt Giteau runs hard at the All Blacks line and the subsequent ball to Brown gets the ball to Horwill on the touch line who crosses to score and Giteau converts easily, This gave the Australians a 17-7 lead. Four minutes later, All Black Conrad Smith makes a great break down the touch line as he dummies between to players and only just before the touchline he offloads to Tony Woodcock who amazingly outruns the Wallaby defenders for 20metres to score in the corner, Dan Carter Kicks the conversion again to make the score 17-14 to the Aussies.

In the 62nd minute, All Black Rodney So'ialo makes a break in the middle of the field but as he cuts back to the outside looks to have butchered the opportunity. However, the ball finds its way to Weepu's hands and he puts down to put the ABs back in front at 21-17. The 66th minute gave us the next try which was scored by Dan Carter, He then goes on to convert his own try making the score 28-17.

The last try of the game came in the 77th minute when Wallabie Ryan Cross barges over the try line. Matt Giteau then kicks the conversion to make it 28-24.

This was definitely one of the best games seen between Australia and New Zealand. There is still one more game between these two great rugby nations, This game will be held in Hong Kong, It promises to be a great game aswell.

 

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