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the All Blacks continued to pressure for the remaining minutes and during injury-time, all their forays into the
Barbarians 25 were snuffed out by more good Barbarians defence. The Barbarians too managed to launch a couple of their own attacks, with Bevan twice running out of defence brilliantly, the second of which ended when he chose to grubber-kick ahead, not noticing that J. P. R. Williams was free on his left shoulder who would have certainly scored were he to have passed. Batty conjured one last attacking chance for his side, escaping down the left flank, but his inside pass was dropped by Robertson. One final attacking move for the Barbarians was brought to an end after Gibson lost his footing after a cut back inside and knocked on, after which the final whistle sounded, and the resultant cheers from the crowd was instantly followed by a mass pitch invasion from all sides. Barbarians captain John Dawes was lifted onto the shoulders of the crowd, as was scrum-half Edwards in recognition of his remarkable try scored in the opening minutes of the match.
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from a lineout just outside New
Zealand's 25, the ball was kept in play for over 90 seconds (a very rare feat for rugby matches of that era) and all 15 Barbarian players touched the ball at least once in the passage of play. Featuring a remarkable reverse pass by Edwards, two sniping runs apiece by Duckham and Gibson, a try-saving tackle by Karam and interception by Colling, Slattery's accurate pass put J. P. R. Williams in space who then side-stepped Karam to score in the corner. Bennett slotted the conversion from the right touchline, receiving a cheer almost as loud as the one that greeted the try, to give the Barbarians a virtually unassailable 23β11 lead with only a few minutes to go.
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Williams in a one-on-one situation that would have otherwise resulted in a certain try for the All Blacks, but the Barbarians were powerless to stop Bryan Williams breaking through the line a few moments later and feeding winger Batty for New Zealand's first try of the match. Karam missed the conversion, but the All Blacks were nonetheless very much back in contention, trailing 17β7 with barely eight minutes of the second half gone.
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tackle on Batty who had brilliantly recovered another
Robertson grubber kick. A desperate clearing kick from Bennett and Quinnell winning two New Zealand lineouts in two minutes ensured that their four-point cushion was maintained, before Duckham, starting inside his own 25-yard line, evaded three All Black defenders with successive side-steps to release David,
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match; even though the crowd noise was filled with boos for Batty, they nonetheless acknowledged the skill with an appreciative round of applause. Karam, however, once again, could not add the conversion, but New
Zealand had successfully cut the deficit to just six points, now trailing 17-11 with just over 10 minutes to go.
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Robertson through. Robertson tried to emulate Batty's chip over the head of J. P. R. Williams, but Williams read Robertson's idea and charged the kick down, likely saving yet another try in the process. Although
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Barbarians then enjoyed their own stretch of attacking chances, with Gibson pouncing on a New Zealand knock-on in midfield to set up a counter-attack that was only thwarted by a timely interception by Robertson. A few minutes later, Edwards scythed through the All Black line after a tap-penalty,
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Zealand's way and they pinned the Barbarians deep inside their half. Barbarian debutant Tommy David stopped a promising attacking move, taking an excellent catch near his own line after Bryan Williams' up-and-under, before J. P. R. Williams made a potentially try-saving
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Barbarians then produced one of the highlights of the game to seal victory; commentator Bill McLaren would later describe it in his 1991 documentary "Bill's Best Bits" as being on par with "The Greatest Try Ever Scored", and a passage of play that made you "gasp in wonder". Beginning
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in succession, until New
Zealand flanker Scown thwarted a certain try for Bevan with a last-ditch tackle. Within minutes of this, however, the All Blacks were once again back on the offensive, with Batty evading Gibson and J. P. R. Williams on the left wing, but his chip-and-chase was thwarted by
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rugby. It's been the type of play that John Dawes, Carwyn James and company played against when the last Lions played there. It's been a pleasure to watch, and those of us who have seen it here, and those millions all over the world who have been with us, have really been very privileged people
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then also knocked on after a promising attacking move set up by a burst upfield from Kirkpatrick, but Edwards was penalised for not putting the ball in straight at the ensuing scrum, giving Karam a much easier attempt at goal, which he made to cut the deficit to 17β3. J. P. R. Williams then once
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had been penalised for side-entry at a ruck, giving the Barbarians a 7-0 lead with about nine minutes of the first half remaining, and it was during these nine minutes that the Barbarians took control of the game. After a clearing kick by Going, Duckham produced the second of his two first-half
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The game is one I will never forget and those of us who played in it will never be allowed to forget. It is a match that will live with me forever. People tend only to remember the first four minutes of the game because of the try, but what they forgot is the great deal of good rugby played
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then almost got around New Zealand's defence on the right wing with his first touch of the ball all match, but Burgess produced an excellent covering tackle to cut out the danger. Cliff Morgan commented here that the action was "unceasing" β barely 15 minutes had been played.
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kicked deep into Barbarian territory; Phil Bennett recovered possession near his goal line, and with nearly the entire length of the field between him and the New Zealand goal line, he started upfield, sidestepping past three tackles, as encouraged by coach
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immediately before the game. Bennett passed to J. P. R. Williams, who managed to offload the ball after Bryan Williams had tackled him around the neck. Still deep in Barbarians territory, the ball then passed through four pairs of Barbarian hands
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could not gather the rebound cleanly and knocked on over the line. A few plays later, Slattery was penalised for offside at a maul, but Karam missed the difficult penalty attempt from the right hand side of the pitch.
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narrowly missed a drop-goal attempt. A few minutes later, only great covering defence from J. P. R. Williams stopped an almost certain try after
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that even fooled the cameraman β setting up a superb move that ended with flanker Slattery throwing a one-handed, over-the-head
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Bennett's conversion attempt fell short, but nonetheless the Barbarians had a 4β0 lead inside four minutes.
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1312:Lin Colling
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1150:Bob Burgess
1135:Grant Batty
976:Steve Smith
859:Tommy David
771:John Pullin
661:Mike Gibson
468:New Zealand
388:Lin Colling
364:Second half
345:Alex Wyllie
312:Grant Batty
304:Bob Burgess
302:, fly-half
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244:Mike Gibson
219:Cardiff RFC
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2202:Schoolboys
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1674:23 October
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1459:References
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683:John Bevan
634:John Dawes
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195:Barry John
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2279:Australia
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1891:Australia
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1669:BBC Sport
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1120:Ian Hurst
1075:Joe Karam
1020:John Gray
544:Referee:
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