All Blacks crush England

New Zealand 44 England 12

New Zealand piled on the misery as England’s tour to forget ended with another comprehensive defeat.

Danny Care and Tom Varndell scored for England – but they had little answer to the destruction orchestrated once again by Dan Carter.

The All Blacks fly-half finished with his second 22-point haul in successive weeks, including one of New Zealand’s five tries.

Debutant centre Richard Kahui began the rout and was joined on the scoresheet by Ma’a Nonu, Sione Lauaki and Jimmy Cowan.

The All Blacks clicked through the gears in the final quarter, accelerating away from England side who had Tindall sin-binned after an hour for killing the ball near his own line.

Lauaki attacked from a five-metre scrum and, after selling the slightest dummy, charged over untouched under the posts.

With Tindall off, Tait moved into the centre and his outside break sent Varndell clear down the left.

Although MacDonald recovered, his pass to Sivivatu was forward and England piled on the pressure with first Mears and then Ojo coming close.

But Tait conjured up the breakthrough with a delightful pass for Varndell to score after Steve Borthwick had won the turnover. It was Varndell’s third try in his fourth Test.

England were saved by a forward pass after New Zealand had moved the ball quickly wide to Sivivatu in acres of space outside Varndell.

Tait was then stretchered from the field with his face covered in blood after a nasty clash of heads with Kahui.

Replacement scrum-half Jimmy Cowan applied the final nail in England’s coffin by scampering over for the All Blacks’ fifth try with the last attack of the game.