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After a dominant 1st half, New Zealand beats Australia 43-21 in the 2nd Bledisloe rugby test · Best of: Features

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  After a dominant first half, New Zealand beats Australia forty three twenty
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  one in the second Bledisloe rugby test. This article is being read
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  by an automated voice generated by Everlett. Sydney, the AP. The high
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  tempo, breath of the field game New Zealand hoped to produce in
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  a losing effort in South Africa, came to life in Australia on
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  Saturday when the All Blacks beat the Wallabies forty three twenty one
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  to sweep the Bledisloe Cup rugby series two zero. After the first
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  twelve minutes were frenetic but scoreless, New Zealand scored six tries and
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  conceded one to lead thirty six seven by halftime, and to take
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  the match away from Australia. New Zealand, which lost the Test Series
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  in South Africa 3 1, also scored the first try of the
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  second half, but the Wallabies thought back strongly and created a momentum
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  shift which saw them score two tries to one after the break.
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  The way we came out In that first half, was great, All
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  Blacks Captain Cody Taylor said. It was a real challenge for us
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  to make sure we backed up a really good performance last week.
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  I thought we were awesome in that first forty, backing ourselves and
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  playing what was in front, but that second forty was a bit
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  different. In the first half, Scrum half Cam Rogard conducted the ball
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  Blacks superbly, switching the attack left and right to twist and bend
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  the Wallaby's defense, while Damian Mackenzie picked out runners with short passes
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  to create line breaks. When the line was broken, the New Zealand
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  support game kicked in with ruthless efficiency and multiple passes led to
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  tries that dizzied defenders. Hooker, Cody Taylor, and backrowers Peter Lacaye and
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  Wallace CT were strong runners with the ball, and fullback Bowden Barrett
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  regularly inserted himself into the back line and had two tries by
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  halftime. Lakai and Rieco Ioane also scored first half tries and Loch
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  Fabian Holland put in a huge shift with twenty one tackles. The
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  Wallabies attacking efforts generally were enveloped in swarming all blacks defense or
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  undone, by errors of handling or passing, but they scored tries through
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  Locke Jeremy Williams in the first half, and fullback Tom Wright and
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  Filippo Daugunu in then second. Williams made a D tour to the
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  Sinbin shortly after his try, and the All Blacks exploited the numerical
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  advantage when Cetidi scored from the back of a dominant scrum. Barrett
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  completed his double with an intercept try on the tick of halftime
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  and winger Josh Morby, who scored New Zealand's first try, also scored
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  the first try of the second half, after only two o minutes,
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  making the score 43 7. New Zealand the seemed on the verge
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  of consecutive fifty point scorelines against Australia, after winning the first Test
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  fifty nineteen in Auckland last weekend, but there was significant shift in
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  the second half. The All Blacks had been forced to make a
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  late back line change when influential center Geordie Barrett suffered a calf
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  injury short before the match. The then lost Barrett's midfield partner Quinn
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  Tupaia to a failed head injury after only four minutes. Those setbacks
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  didn't affect the fluency of the All Blacks attack in the first
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  half, but their combination became less easy in the second half, as
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  replacements took the field and injuries and fatigue took their toll. Winger
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  Max Jorgensen again was Australia's best back, and his elusive run along
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  the right touch led to Wright's try. Dalgunu's length of the field
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  effort completed a fourteen to seven second half for Australia. I'm gutted.
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  When you give a team like the All Blacks a head start,
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  it's tough and it's not good enough from this group, Wallaby's Captain
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  Harry Wilson said. We've got to be a lot better. The men's
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  game was part of a four-match day for spectators at the former
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  Olympic Stadium in Sydney. In a women's fifteen A-side match, Australia beat
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  Scotland 56-12 as part of the WXV Global Series. The Australian Men's
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  Sevens team drew 1919 with two-time Olympic champions Fiji, and the Australian
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  Women's Sevens side lost 21-12 to New Zealand. See the AP's full
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  rugby coverage here.