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The Wallabies recycled through numerous phases of possession, until finally the ball was passed wide to James O'Connor, who beat the scrambling All Black defence to touch down and level the scores. The 20-year-old winger then kicked the resulting conversion to win the match for the Wallabies, ending New Zealand's recent domination of the fixture.
In contrast, some countries that have reached a rating of over 90 rating points, such as Australia (91.75) and Ireland (91.17), did not achieve the top spot, although Ireland would eventually reach the top of the summit with a rating of 89.47 following their victory over Wales in a World Cup 2019 warm-up test in Dublin, while Australia still to ...
Rankings, or power rankings, can be directly provided (e.g., by asking people to rank teams), or can be derived by sorting each team's ratings and assigning an ordinal rank to each team, so that the highest rated team earns the #1 rank. Rating systems provide an alternative to traditional sports standings which are based on win–loss–tie ratios.
Australia: 3. Pat Walsh: 19 years 106 days: 6 May 1936: 20 August 1955 Australia: 4. John Kirwan: 19 years 183 days: 16 December 1964: 16 June 1984 France: 5. George Nēpia: 19 years 190 days: 25 April 1905: 1 November 1924 Ireland: 6. Billy Mitchell: 19 years 211 days: 28 November 1890: 27 June 1910 Australia: 7. Bill Francis: 19 years 221 ...
In September of that year, Australia played the All Blacks twice in New Zealand, winning both games and taking back the Bledisloe Cup for the first time on New Zealand soil. The 'Number 1' All Black side was touring South Africa at the time and the wins by Australia against the B-team have sometimes been downgraded.
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In test matches, the most capped All Black is Sam Whitelock with 153 caps. [228] The record for most tests as captain is held by Richie McCaw with 110. [229] The youngest All Black in a test match was Jonah Lomu, capped at age 19 years, 45 days, whilst the oldest test player was Ned Hughes at 40 years, 123 days. [221] [230] [l]
The SANFL is the highest level league using this system today, it has been used in the past by the VFL and several rugby league competitions, most notably the short-lived Super League of Australia and the present-day Super League in the UK and France. Many lower-level leagues in both Australian rules and rugby league still use the system.