New Zealand overcame Namibia 71-3 in Toulouse with a ruthless show of attacking to get off the mark in Pool A of the Rugby World Cup.
The All Blacks started their event with a defeat to hosts France in Paris however had no such bother of their second outing as Cam Roigard and Cam McKenzie every scored two tries to assist Ian Foster’s facet acquire a bonus level and transfer second within the pool.
Namibia stay with out a victory in 23 makes an attempt on the World Cup going again to 1999 and by no means regarded sturdy sufficient to pose issues for New Zealand – for whom Ethan de Groot was purple carded within the last minutes – in a recreation performed largely in torrential rain.
The three-time winners drew first blood after solely two minutes. McKenzie kicked on for Leicester Fainga’anuku to gather and he offloaded for Roigard to take over and rating below the posts, with McKenzie changing comfortably.
It took solely one other six minutes for the result in lengthen to 12 factors when Roigard obtained the ball from a scrum and went over for his second strive.
Cam Roigard scored twice within the first six minutes to get the ball rolling for the All Blacks
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Namibia’s evening took an additional flip for the more serious when centre Le Roux Malan suffered a nasty knee damage, leaving the pitch on a stretcher and clutching an oxygen masks, moments after Tiaan Swanepoel had minimize the deficit with a penalty.
Minutes later New Zealand pulled additional forward when McKenzie went over for a transformed strive, weaving by means of Namibia’s line to make it 19-3.
The bonus level was secured for the All Blacks with quarter-hour of the primary half nonetheless to play, Fainga’anuku powering over and exhibiting glorious fingers for his workforce’s fourth strive, earlier than two tries in simply over a minute made the rating unassailable earlier than the break.
First, took full benefit of the slippery circumstances with two nicely managed kicks alongside the bottom to get in behind Namibia and drop on it because it crossed the strive line, then McKenzie added his second of the sport when he collected from Roigard off a scrum and crossed the whitewash to make it 38-3 on the interval.
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De Groot ensured New Zealand started the second half in the identical ruthless useless with which they completed the primary, the prop crashing over simply 30 seconds after coming off the bench regardless of the attentions of two Namibia defenders.
Ethan de Groot scored New Zealand’s seventh strive earlier than being despatched off simply earlier than the tip of the sport
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Beauden Barrett made the following strive for Dalton Papalii, breaking out extensive earlier than slipping the ball throughout with a nice bullet cross for Papalii to go over below the posts, minutes earlier than David Havili took benefit of an outstanding run by means of the center from Roigard to go over the road and make it 57-3.
Caleb Clarke scored New Zealand’s tenth strive when he obtained on the tip of a cross-field kick from Richie Mo’unga to slip over the road.
De Groot was despatched to the sin bin with eight minutes to play – later upgraded to a purple card for harmful play – nevertheless it didn’t halt New Zealand’s cost, substitute Rieko Ioane scoring to make it 71-3 close to the tip.
