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Koroibete scores in Wallabies win

October 21, 2017 5:19 pm

Fiji born, Marika Koroibete scored one of the three tries as Wallabies claimed a 23-18 win over All Blacks in the third and final Bledisloe Cup test.

The third Test of the series might have been a dead rubber but Michael Cheika’s men had a point to prove to their trans-Tasman enemies – and they did it, ending a run of seven straight defeats to score their first win over New Zealand since August 2015.

New Zealand beat Australia 54-34 in Sydney and 35-29 in Dunedin during the Rugby Championship and so were already assured of retaining the Bledisloe Cup for a 15th successive season.

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