Live-wire scrum-half Cam Roigard had a subject day to assist New Zealand to an 11-try 71-3 thrashing of Namibia within the two groups’ second Pool A match in Toulouse on Friday.
Roigard scored two tries and arrange two extra as fly-half Damian McKenzie bagged 26 factors to kick begin the All Blacks’ match after a gap 27-13 loss to hosts France.
That defeat delivered to an finish a run of 31 consecutive World Cup pool victories by the All Blacks, who additionally recorded their largest dropping margin (-14 factors).
It additionally meant that the three-time champions will seemingly not prime their pool, having completed first in all 9 earlier tournaments.
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But there was no such drama in opposition to Namibia, who got here into the sport on the Stadium of Toulouse nonetheless trying to find a first-ever World Cup victory of their seventh consecutive match look, having opened with a 52-8 defeat by Italy – their twenty third straight loss.
And it was by no means going to occur in opposition to the All Blacks, who prevented a misfiring show like that of a much-changed France crew in opposition to Uruguay on Thursday.
Going into the sport, New Zealand had scored 20 tries within the two Tests between the nations, averaging one each eight minutes of play.
True to type, any resistance was short-lived as Roigard crossed after simply 90 seconds after a break by Leicester Fainga’anuku.
Namibia spurned an early shot at purpose to go for the nook, a lot to the delight of the sell-out crowd.
But possession was coughed up in touch and the All Blacks destroyed the African scrum on the road, Roigard spinning from the bottom for a easy strive.
Tiaan Swanepoel received Namibia on the scoreboard with an eleventh minute penalty earlier than play was stopped for a number of minutes after Namibia centre Le Roux Malan sustained a nasty trying ankle damage in what seemed to be an innocuous sort out.
McKenzie left out for the All Blacks’ third strive after the re-start and Fainga’anuku’s energy from brief vary then proved an excessive amount of because the winger bundled over the whitewash by way of three tackles to ensure a bonus level.
As heavy rain swept into the stadium, Anton Lienert-Brown scored a neat strive, accumulating a McKenzie cross on the bounce, grubbing the ball previous Divan Roussouw, then hacking forward and touching down over the road.
Swanepoel was responsible of a number of kicking errors that gifted possession again to New Zealand and from one such mistake McKenzie grabbed his second after Roigard broke clear from a scrum to make it 38-3 at half-time.
There was a glut of tries within the second interval as Namibia drained. Ethan de Groot crossed simply seconds after approaching together with his first contact, earlier than Dalton Papali’i sliced by way of and David Havili was performed in by the influential Roigard.
Namibia skipper Johan Deysel spilled the ball to finish a uncommon interval of assault from his aspect earlier than Caleb Clarke and Rieko Ioane crossed for New Zealand.
De Groot was yellow carded for a no-arms sort out try, later upgraded to crimson by the bunker evaluate system, in the one blip for New Zealand, for whom lock Sam Whitelock drew stage with Richie McCaw on 148 Test appearances.
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