Record-breaker Beauden Barrett leads our key stats as the All Blacks retain Bledisloe

Alex Broun 20:31 25/08/2018
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  • Inspired by Beauden Barrett‘s four tries, the All Blacks retained the Bledisloe Cup for a 16th straight year after a 40-12 (six tries to two) victory over the Wallabies at Eden Park in Auckland on Saturday.

    This followed on from the first Bledisloe Cup Test in Sydney last Saturday won 38-13 by the All Blacks and stretches New Zealand’s unbeaten winning streak at Eden Park to a quarter of a century. The Wallabies have not won there for 32 years, last tasting victory in September 1986 (22-9).

    Here, we take a look at the key stats from Saturday’s match.

    4: All Blacks wing Ben Smith made a game high four offloads followed by his team mate, outside centre Jack Goodhue with three.

    5: Australia had a bad week on and off the field. With another Prime Minister and Bledisloe Cup quest biting the dust in the same week, the Wallabies now have the dubious record of having had more PMs in the last decade (5) than victories over the All Blacks (4).

    6: Wallabies backs Kurtley Beale and Marika Koroibete  had days to forget in defence missing a game-high six tackles each. Koroibete also conceded three turnovers.

    4: Beauden’s four tries only equaled the highest number of tries scored against the Wallabies in a Test match by one player, bringing him level with Springbok winger Jongi Nokwe’s quadruple against the Wallabies in Johannesburg in 2008.

    21: All Blacks skipper Kieran Read put in a huge defensive shift making a game-high 21 tackles. Second was his opposing No8, David Pocock, with 18.

    30: Beauden’s four tries and five conversions gave the All Blacks’ fly-half the greatest points tally ever recorded by a single player against the Wallabies in a Test match, eclipsing Andrew Mehrtens’ 29-points haul (nine penalties and a conversion) at the same venue in July 1999.

    30: Beauden has now scored the most tries by any Test fly-half in history, his four against the Wallabies in Auckland taking him past the 29 scored by the man who mentored him for the first three years of his All Blacks career – Dan Carter. He has also equaled legendary England and British and Irish Lions winger Jason Robinson.

    100: Prop Owen Franks became the second All Blacks forward in two weeks to bring up his century of Test caps, after Sam Whitelock last weekend in Sydney. It now brings to three the number of current All Blacks with 100 Test caps – Franks, Whitelock and captain Kieran Read.

    151: metres made in attack by Beauden from 12 runs, a figure only topped by his brother Jordie with 153 from 11 runs. Beauden also had a game high three line breaks and an equal game high six tackle busts (along with Wallabies fullback Dane Haylett-Petty).

    5,868: It is now 5868 days since the Wallabies last held up the Bledisloe Cup, or 16 years and 23 days, way back till August 3, 2002.

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