Full time6 January 1973
Twickenham, London, England · Tour 1972Head-to-head
New Zealand won by 9 points.
Scoring
- –CNew Zealand conversion · Joe Karam0–2
- –TNew Zealand try · Ian Kirkpatrick0–6
- –DNew Zealand drop goal · Bryan Williams0–9
Line-ups
England
- 1Stack StevensProp
- 2John PullinHooker
- 3Bill AndersonProp
- 4Peter LarterSecond row
- 5Chris RalstonSecond row
- 6John WatkinsFlanker
- 7Tony NearyFlanker
- 8Andy RipleyNumber 8
- 9Jan WebsterScrum-half
- 10John FinlanFly-half
- 11David DuckhamWing
- 12Peter PreeceCentre
- 13Peter WarfieldCentre
- 14Alan MorleyWing
- 15Sam DobleFull-back
- 16Alan CowmanBench
- 17David RoughleyBench
- 18Stephen SmithBench
- 19Keith FairbrotherBench
- 20J WhiteBench
- 21Peter DixonBench
New Zealand
- 1Graham WhitingProp
- 2Tane NortonHooker
- 3Kent LambertProp
- 4Hamish MacDonaldSecond row
- 5Pole WhitingSecond row
- 6Alex WyllieFlanker
- 7Ian KirkpatrickFlanker
- 8Alan SutherlandNumber 8
- 9Sid GoingScrum-half
- 10Ian StevensFly-half
- 11Grant BattyWing
- 12Ross ParkinsonCentre
- 13Bruce RobertsonCentre
- 14Bryan WilliamsWing
- 15Joe KaramFull-back
- 16Duncan HalesBench
- 17Ian HurstBench
- 18Lin CollingBench
- 19Ron UrlichBench
- 20Lindsay ClarkBench
- 21Bevan HolmesBench
Match officials
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Context
All-time, England 9–37 New Zealand, 2 drawn in 48 scored Tests. Full head-to-head
England going in
New Zealand going in
- Previous meeting: 4 November 1967, England 11–23 New Zealand
- Next meeting on record: 15 September 1973
Also on this day
Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.