Cam Roigard celebrates his gamewinning try against Australia. Photo: Andrew Cornaga/www.photosport.nz
The All Blacks have beaten the Wallabies 33-24 at Eden Park to retain the Bledisloe Cup.
Former All Black Eroni Clarke sang the New Zealand national anthem, and son and All Blacks wing Caleb Clarke opened the scoring for the hosts, diving over in the left corner inside the first five minutes.
Beauden Barrett missed the conversion to keep it 5-0 to the All Blacks.
The Wallabies hit back quickly with a James O'Connor penalty goal to cut New Zealand's lead to two, before the All Blacks kicked one of their own to go ahead 8-3.
The All Blacks began to attack Australia's tryline and were rewarded after several phases, with wing Leroy Carter diving over from the base of the ruck to extend the hosts' lead to 13-3 with 15 minutes gone.
Caleb Clark scores the All Blacks' opening try against Australia. Photo: Andrew Cornaga/www.photosport.nz
The All Blacks scored their third try in similar style with halfback Cam Roigard sniping over from close range. Barrett kicked the conversion to put the All Blacks up 20-3.
The Wallabies needed to score next and they did, with hooker Billy Pollard going over to reduce the All Blacks lead to 20-10, and the visitors struck again just before halftime through wing Harry Potter to make it just a three-point game at the break, All Blacks ahead 20-17.
Harry Potter scores a try for Australia. Photo: Marty Melville
The All Blacks scored the first points of the second half, via a Damian McKenzie penalty goal, to take a six-point advantage and the replacement first-five would kick another soon after to give the hosts a 26-17 lead.
The Wallabies wouldn't go away and scored in the 69th minute, following a lineout drive, to make it a two-point game, 26-24, with 10 minutes remaining.
The All Blacks mounted an attack into the Wallabies 22 and Australia gave away a penalty, with the offending player, Potter, yellow-carded.
Australia managed to hold up the ensuing lineout drive over the line, but the All Blacks scored from the goal-line drop out, with Roigard going between the posts for his second try of the night.
McKenzie kicked the conversion to extend the All Blacks lead to 33-24 with less than five minutes to play and that's how the score remained, as New Zealand locked away the Bledisloe Cup for a 23rd straight year.
The second test between the two sides is in Perth next Saturday.
See how it unfolded here.
