Driven O’Driscoll desperate to end All Black hoodoo

BRIAN O’Driscoll is ready to take his 11th shot at the All Blacks this weekend.

The Leinster centre has faced New Zealand nine times for his country while he skippered the British and Irish Lions on one occasion in an ill-fated opening test in Christchurch back in 2005.

This is O’Driscoll’s seventh time visiting New Zealand since he first played against them in that rip-roaring 40-29 defeat at Lansdowne Road in 2001. Only two survivors remain from that epic test in Dublin: O’Driscoll and Richie McCaw, the respective captains for Saturday’s clash.