All Blacks Thump France To Win Series With Game To Spare

New Zealand (29) 43

Tries: Roigard, Savea, Taylor, Jordan, Vaa'i, Ioane Cons: B Barrett 4, J Barrett Pen: B Barrett

France (3) 17

Tries: Barre, Brennan Cons: Le Garrec, Hastoy Pen: Le Garrec

Hosts New Zealand thumped France 43-17 to triumph nan 2nd Test successful Wellington and clinch nan bid pinch a crippled to spare.

The All Blacks laboured to a 31-27 triumph complete France successful Dunedin past week but were comfortable winners connected Saturday, moving successful six tries astatine Sky Stadium.

Scott Robertson's broadside led 29-3 astatine half-time earlier Six Nations champions France, who travelled southbound without astir of their first-choice players, claimed 2 tries successful nan 2nd half.

Fly-half Beauden Barrett kicked an early punishment for nan All Blacks earlier nan first 3 tries came from attacking line-outs, pinch scrum-half Cam Roigard flashing down nan blind-side to unfastened nan scoring connected 14 minutes.

Barrett was sent to nan sin-bin for a deliberate knock-on but nan hosts continued to onslaught and skipper Ardie Savea pounced connected a line-out shot to wrestle his measurement complete for his 29th Test try, meaning he has overtaken Richie McCaw arsenic New Zealand's astir prolific try-scoring forward.

Hooker Codie Taylor crossed connected 29 minutes connected nan backmost of a much accepted rolling maul, pinch France's battalion short-handed aft debutant fastener Josh Brennan - nan Toulouse-raised boy of erstwhile Ireland guardant Trevor Brennan - had been sin-binned for a extremity tackle.

Offloads by Savea, Rieko Ioane and Netherlands-born fastener Fabian Holland past group flanker Tupou Vaa'i free up nan mediate to people nan prime of nan tries and put nan hosts firmly successful complaint astatine nan break.

France replied pinch full-back Leo Barre taking advantage of an All Blacks correction to people a 47th-minute try, though New Zealand full-back Will Jordan produced a akin people soon aft for his 41st effort from 43 Tests.

The All Blacks extended their lead to 43-10 erstwhile winger Ioane dived complete successful nan area connected 62 minutes earlier Brennan crossed for nan visitors pinch 3 minutes left.

The bid concludes pinch nan 3rd Test astatine Hamilton's Waikato Stadium connected 19 July.