All Blacks too strong for England

New Zealand piled on the misery as England's tour to forget ended with a 44-12 comprehensive defeat in Christchurch.

New Zealand piled on the misery as England's tour to forget ended with a 44-12 comprehensive defeat in Christchurch.

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.

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England captain Steve Borthwick said afterwards: "We've got to credit the All Blacks.

"Whenever they saw a tryscoring opportunity, got close to the line, they took those opportunities.

"We had some opportunities in the first half. We didn't take them and ultimately that cost us."