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The Hong Kong match drew a crowd of 39,000 to see the All Blacks defeat the Wallabies 19–14 (despite New Zealand having already won the Bledisloe Cup for 2008), [2] generating a reported £5.5 million and proving to be a financial success for the two unions. [3]
In 2000 in Sydney, a record crowd of 109,874 witnessed what some have called 'The Greatest Ever Rugby Match' when the All Blacks defeated The Wallabies 39–35. Twenty one days after their win in Sydney, the All Blacks lost to the Wallabies in front of a home crowd. This meant the Wallabies won The Bledisloe Cup for the third year in a row.
The All Blacks led 21-0 after 15 minutes but faltered badly in the second half, only just holding on with 13 men at one point to beat Australia 31-28 in the first Bledisloe Cup test on Saturday.
The contest between The Wallabies and The Springboks is one of the major rivalries in rugby union. Since 2000s, the two teams have competed for the Mandela Challenge Plate . The teams' first meeting was on 8 July 1933 at Newlands in Cape Town in the first of 5 tests on the 1933 Wallabies tour .
All Blacks captain Ardie Savea lifts the Bledisloe Cup and the Rugby Championship trophy. 13:15, Harry Latham-Coyle “First of all, I want to thank the Wallabies for tonight’s clash,” Savea says.
Australia will have a new captain and the All Blacks will field a new-look lineup when they meet in Dunedin, New Zealand on Saturday in the second Bledisloe Cup test. ... Tate McDermott named to ...
The team was intended to combine many Wallabies and All Blacks, but most New Zealand players dropped out of the squad before the match. [ 4 ] There will be a game between the British & Irish Lions and an ANZAC XV during the Lions' 2025 tour of Australia .
Before that match, both national anthems of South Africa – "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" and "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika" – were played and sung by both players and fans. [16] The 1992 test was seen as the first step towards the notion of South Africa as a "rainbow nation" after apartheid as rugby started to gain support from all races. [17]