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Springboks hang onto World Rugby No 1 ranking despite big All Blacks win

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The All Blacks beat Australia in the first of two Bledisloe Cup Tests at Eden Park in Auckland on Saturday.

New Zealand won 50-19 after leading 17-14 at half-time.

The second Bledisloe Cup match will take place in Sydney next weekend.

READ | All Blacks pay heavy price for Bledisloe Cup win

Springboks still No 1

However, New Zealand’s impressive win was not enough to see them overtake the Springboks at the summit of the World Rugby rankings.

The win saw the Kiwis add 0.66 World Rugby ranking points, while the Wallabies lost an equivalent amount.

New Zealand moved to 91.81 points, 1.28 behind the Springboks.

Meanwhile, despite their heavy defeat, Australia remained in sixth place on 84.89 points.

RankTeamPoints
1South Africa93.09
2New Zealand91.81
3Ireland88.08
4France87.43
5England85.68
6Australia84.89
7Scotland84.78
8Argentina82.24
9Japan77.28
10Fiji76.81
11Wales76.38
12Italy76.30
13Georgia73.94
14Portugal69.39
15USA67.58
16Chile66.94
17Spain66.83
18Uruguay65.75
19Tonga65.14
20Samoa64.73

Teams

New Zealand

15 Beauden Barrett, 14 Will Jordan, 13 Quinn Tupaea, 12 Jordie Barrett, 11 Leroy Carter, 10 Damian McKenzie, 9 Cam Roigard, 8 Wallace Sititi, 7 Peter Lakai, 6 Tupou Vaa’i, 5 Josh Lord, 4 Scott Barrett, 3 Fletcher Newell, 2 Codie Taylor (captain), 1 Ethan De Groot

Replacements: 16 Asafo Aumua, 17 George Bower, 18 Pasilio Tosi, 19 Shannon Frizell, 20 Anton Segner, 21 Kyle Preston, 22 Rieko Ioane, 13 Josh Moorby

Australia

15 Tom Wright, 14 Max Jorgensen, 13 Isaac Henry, 12 Len Ikitau, 11 Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii, 10 Ben Donaldson, 9 Ryan Lonergan, 8 Harry Wilson (captain), 7 Fraser McReight, 6 Rob Valetini, 5 Lukhan Salakaia-Loto, 4 Jeremy Williams, 3 Allan Alaalatoa, 2 Brandon Paenga-Amosa, 1 Angus Bell

Replacements: 16 Josh Nasser, 17 Aidan Ross, 18 Massimo De Lutiis, 19 Lachlan Shaw, 20 Nick Champion de Crespigny, 21 Tate McDermott, 22 Declan Meredith, 23 Harry Potter

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