• England 25-25 New Zealand
  • Hosts score three tries in final 10 minutes to deny All Blacks

Beneath a dark forbidding November sky came a finale to light up a previously All Black night. Three tries in the last eight minutes of a game that had seemed well out of England’s reach altered the entire complexion of the evening and threw up one of the more unlikely game-saving heroes.

The replacement prop Will Stuart will never top this rescue act, his late double rescuing an unlikely draw from the jaws of a heavy defeat.

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