TheBreakdown
Full time15 September 1973
New Zealand
10–16
England
Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand · Tour 1973Head-to-head

England won by 6 points.

Scoring

  1. –CNew Zealand conversion · Robert Lendrum2–0
  2. –TNew Zealand try · Ian Hurst6–0
  3. –TNew Zealand try · Grant Batty10–0
  4. –CEngland conversion · Peter Rossborough10–2
  5. –CEngland conversion · Peter Rossborough10–4
  6. –TEngland try · Peter Squires10–8
  7. –TEngland try · Tony Neary10–12
  8. –TEngland try · Stack Stevens10–16

Line-ups

New Zealand

  1. 1Kent LambertProp
  2. 2Tane NortonHooker
  3. 3Murray JonesProp
  4. 4Hamish MacDonaldSecond row
  5. 5Sam StrahanSecond row
  6. 6Ken StewartFlanker
  7. 7Ian KirkpatrickFlanker
  8. 8Alex WyllieNumber 8
  9. 9Sid GoingScrum-half
  10. 10John DouganFly-half
  11. 11Bryan WilliamsWing
  12. 12Ross ParkinsonCentre
  13. 13Ian HurstCentre
  14. 14Grant BattyWing
  15. 15Robert LendrumFull-back
  16. 16Lin CollingBench
  17. 17Terry MorrisonBench
  18. 18Duncan RobertsonBench
  19. 19David PesciniBench
  20. 20Alan SutherlandBench
  21. 21Bill BushBench

England

  1. 1Stack StevensProp
  2. 2John PullinHooker
  3. 3Fran CottonProp
  4. 4Roger UttleySecond row
  5. 5Chris RalstonSecond row
  6. 6John WatkinsFlanker
  7. 7Tony NearyFlanker
  8. 8Andy RipleyNumber 8
  9. 9Jan WebsterScrum-half
  10. 10Alan OldFly-half
  11. 11Peter SquiresWing
  12. 12Geoff EvansCentre
  13. 13Peter PreeceCentre
  14. 14David DuckhamWing
  15. 15Peter RossboroughFull-back
  16. 16Tony JordenBench
  17. 17Martin CooperBench
  18. 18Stephen SmithBench
  19. 19Mike BurtonBench
  20. 20J WhiteBench
  21. 21Nick MartinBench

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Context

All-time, New Zealand 37–9 England, 2 drawn in 48 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

New Zealand going in
England going in

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.