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26 minutes:Penalty: New Zealand 13-6 England
England are penalised for one of the gaggle of breakdown offences.
Dan Carter says "ta" and slots the ball right through the centre of the sticks. That man could shoot fish in a barrel and still hit.
22 minutes: Try: New Zealand 10-6 England
Danny Carter and that tin-opening left boot of his conjure yet another try as centre Conrad Smith arrives from nowhere and races on to a fantastic grubber to put the home side in front for the first time in the game. Carter adds the extras.
20 minutes: Penalty: New Zealand 3-6 England
Richie McCaw is pinged for not rolling away from a tackle, he gets a stern talking to from Nigel Owens, anymore of that nonsense, Richiemaboy, you're offski for 10. Barkley slots the easiest of penalties in front of the sticks.
19 minutes: The All Blacks are looking rattled, especially at the set-piece. Tom Rees, James Haskell and Luke Narraway are giving the famed All Blacks back three a proper run for their Kiwi dollar. Matt Stevens and Andrew Sheridan are looking solid with ball in hand.
18 minutes: Superb defence from number 8 Jerome Kaino, who hauls down David Strettle as he darts for the line after a swift passing move through the backs. Kaino not only hauls the Quins winger out of touch, he forces the winger to knock on.
16 minutes: England are bossing things here. Daniel Carter fails to find touch from a penalty and Mike Tindall finds acres of space on NZ's left wing and England camp themselves in Kiwi territory.
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13 minutes: Penalty: New Zealand 3-3 England
Luke Narraway bosses the ball off Richie McCaw, only to the find the great number seven doing exactly the same 30 seconds later. Matt Stevens is penalised for holding on to the ball and Daniel Carter - who else? - plonks over the most laconic of kicks to level the scores.
9 minutes: Penalty: New Zealand 0-3 England
England take a solid scrum and work the ball through the forwards - via Matt Stevens - and prop Greg Somerville is penalised for not rolling away. Barkley makes amends for his earlier miss and England are up and running.
7 minutes: Good kicking work from Wigglesworth and Hodgson sees England find Kiwi territory 10m from the All Blacks' 22m line. Replacement hooker Kevin Mealamu is on for hooker Andrew Hore already and his first throw is crooked.
5 minutes: Ooooof! Mike Brown gets a "splendid evening for rugby" greeting from winger Anthony Tuitavake, who smashes into the England full-back with a brutal tackle.
3 minutes: New Zealand win line-out ball and drive towards England's line, but Ali Williams fumbles and Charlie Hodgson makes very useful ground with a thumping kick.
1 minute: Superb start from England, 30 seconds after kick-off England make 10metres with a maul and Nigel Owens penalises New Zealand for not joining the maul through the gate. Superb opportunity to get three points on the board, but Barley misses the right-hand post from close to the right touchline. I wonder if that miss will come back to haunt him.
0835: We're off.
0834: Welshman Nigel Owens is the man in charge in the middle. England crowd round into a huddle and we're seconds away from kick-off, which Olly Barkley will take.
0831: We've had the anthems, now it's time for something that starts with H and ends with A and involves lots of Ka Mate! Ka Mate! Captain Richie McCaw is leading the charge, tongue looking as menacing as Amy Winehouse stumbling out of a Camden watering hole at 2am.
0826: So we have an all-Sale half-back pair of Richard Wigglesworth and Charlie Hodgson, who will hand over place-kicking duties to Olly Barkley, freeing him up to dig deep in his magic bag of tricks to unlock a rather menacing All Blacks defensive line-up.
Mils Muliaina came through a late fitness test and takes his place at full-back. We've got all sorts of crazy business at Eden Park, with the Knights of King Arthur holding Union Jacks, one of whom looks incredibly miserable out there. Cheer up son, it could be worse - you could be a Kiwi cricket fan...
0825:A quick reminder of the teams:
New Zealand: Muliaina; Tuitavake, Smith, Nonu, Sivivatu; Carter, Ellis; Tialata, Hore, Somerville, Thorn, Williams, So'oialo, McCaw (capt), Kaino.
Replacements: Mealamu, Schwalger, Boric, Lauaki, Cowan, Donald, MacDonald.
England: Brown; Ojo, Tindall, Barkley, Strettle; Hodgson, Wigglesworth; Sheridan, Mears, Stevens, Palmer, Borthwick (capt), Haskell, Rees, Narraway.
Replacements: Paice, Payne, Kay, Worsley, Care, Noon, Tait.
0820: England have only ever won twice on Kiwi soil - the last was the memorable game when England won 15-13 in Wellington, when they contested a scrum with only six men after Neil Back and Lawrence Dallaglio had been sin-binned. Captain Martin Johnson was asked what was going through his mind at that point. He replied: "My spine".
0815: Scrape that furry tongue off the roof of your mouth and plonk a couple of fizzy headache tablets in a drinking receptacle full of foggy tap water, you've got a clash bigger than Joe Worsley's head to get stuck into.
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