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17 September 2016
545th All Black test
NEW ZEALAND v SOUTH AFRICA (THE RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP 2016, 1st test) at AMI Stadium, Christchurch, New Zealand
Saturday 17th September 2016
Fulltime score – New Zealand 41 South Africa 13
Halftime – New Zealand 15 South Africa 10
Attendance; 21,000
Conditions; Weather clear but cool, dry ground; evening game
Referee: Angus Gardner (Australia)
Assistant Referees: Pascal Gauzere (France), Marius Mitrea (Italy)
TMO: George Ayoub (Australia)
The scorers:
For New Zealand (41)
Tries: Dagg, J Savea, B Smith, A Savea, Whitelock, Perenara
Cons: Barrett (4)
Pen: Barrett
For South Africa (13)
Try: Habana
Con: Jantjies
Pens: Jantjies (2)
New Zealand: 15 Ben Smith, 14 Israel Dagg (rep’d by L.Sopoaga 68m), 13 Malakai Fekitoa, 12 Ryan Crotty (rep’d by A Lienert-Brown 67m), 11 Julian Savea, 10 Beauden Barrett, 9 Aaron Smith (rep’d by T.J.Perenara 64m), 8 Kieran Read (c), 7 A.Savea (rep’d by L.Romano 60m), 6 Jerome Kaino (rep’d by M.Todd 52m), 5 Samuel Whitelock, 4 Brodie Retallick, 3 Owen Franks (rep’d by C.Faumuina 54m), 2 Dane Coles (rep’d by C.Taylor 67m) and 1 Joe Moody (rep’d by W.Crockett 46m)
South Africa: 15 Johan Goosen (rep’d by Damian de Allende 51m), 14 Bryan Habana, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Juan de Jongh, 11 Francois Hougaard, 10 Elton Jantjies (rep’d by Morne Steyn 60m), 9 Faf de Klerk, 8 Warren Whiteley, 7 Teboho Mohoje (rep’d by Willem Alberts 51m), 6 Francois Louw (rep’d by Jaco Kriel 60m), 5 Pieter-Steph du Toit (rep’d by Franco Mostert 63m), 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Vincent Koch (rep’d by Lourens Adriaanse 72m), 2 Adriaan Strauss (c) (rep’d by Malcolm Marx 44m) and 1 Tendai Mtawarira (rep’d by Steven Kitshoff 60m)
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With this win the All Blacks regained The Rugby Championship; which they had last held in 2014 (Australia had been the winners last year) The win came with two rounds of the competition still to play.
New Zealand’s test winning record moved up to 15 tests in a row.
Kieran Read set a new world record in this game; winning his first 15 test matches as a captain. (Beating Brian Lochore’s former record of 14, beginning in 1966)
Owen Franks completed his 84th test match without scoring a try; thus setting a new world ‘non try-scoring’ mark. The previous record of 83 non-scoring test matches was held by Salvatore Perugini of Italy.
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He lived most of his life in the far flung East Coast of the North Island but grew to be honoured all over the rugby world.
Badeley, Ces
Auckland, North Auckland, and New Zealand
2 internationals for New Zealand 1921
Although he played first-class rugby between 1916 and 1928, and in 15 matches for New Zealand 1920–24, Ces Badeley is better known as the man who was briefly the captain of the 1924 All Blacks.
Twenty-three of the players who later were to become the ‘Invincibles’ on their tour of Britain, France and Canada, first made a four-match visit to Sydney. Badeley was the captain, but played only the first match because of a knee injury. Returning to New Zealand, the team, and Badeley, played two further matches, and the captain’s play received wide praise.
Although the New Zealand union had stated the captaincy would be reviewed before the British tour, it was a surprise when, no sooner had Badeley made a speech on behalf of the team at a parliamentary farewell, than Cliff Porter was announced as captain.
In later years, Badeley supposed his knee injury was a reason, but it is possible that a clique of senior players privately decided on Porter during the voyage back from Sydney. Mark Nicholls was said to be a key factor in these deliberations as – like Badeley – he was a five-eighths, and a confident one at that: Nichols apparently was in no doubt he should play all the major matches.
The offhand treatment of Badeley didn’t finish there. He played only two games on the 32-match tour, despite being regularly clearly fit to play. In fact his major activity for the rest of the famous tour was to act sometimes as back coach.
Once the team was well on track for its unbeaten record, Badeley had no chance of playing. The under-utilised young wing, Alan Robilliard, who himself had only four games in Britain and France, has said that the unbeaten record became paramount to the team and it was inevitable the top players would be fielded for most games.
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