'Disaster' strikes All Blacks on eve of World Cup

Defending champions South Africa delivered an emphatic connection connected the eve of the Rugby World Cup with a grounds 35-7 demolition of archrivals New Zealand astatine Twickenham.

The embarrassing 28 constituent borderline was the biggest All Blacks nonaccomplishment successful Test history, eclipsing the 21 constituent defeats to the Wallabies successful 1999 and 2019.

It was a scarcely believable result aft the Kiwis, antecedently unbeaten successful 2023, had outclassed the Springboks 35-20 connected their mode to the Rugby Championship successful July.

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Tyrel Lomax of New Zealand is taken from the tract by paramedics. (Getty)

The All Blacks brains spot won't beryllium fazed astatine missing retired connected the Qatar Airways Cup successful the last crippled earlier the World Cup, but they volition beryllium fretting implicit the presumption of 2 cardinal forwards.

Prop Tyrel Lomax was carted disconnected the tract with a genu wounded successful the archetypal fractional portion fastener Scott Barrett was sent disconnected for a dumb and unsafe cleanout of Springboks hooker Malcolm Marx.

"A disastrous archetypal fractional for the All Blacks," commentator Rupert Cox said connected Stan Sport's coverage.

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Scott Barrett of New Zealand is sent disconnected by referee Matthew Carley aft a receiving a 2nd yellowish card. (Getty)

"Such an important player, they tin sick spend to suffer him (Barrett) up of the Rugby World Cup opener."

Leading 14-0 astatine halftime down tries to Siya Kolisi and Kurt-Lee Arendse, South Africa's guardant battalion wholly dominated the 2nd word arsenic Marx, Bongi Mbonambi and Kwagga Smith rubbed brackish into the New Zealand wound.

Cam Roigard's spectacular consolation effort was the lone crushed for cheer arsenic the All Blacks present caput to Germany for a grooming campy up of the September 9 tourney opener against hosts France successful Paris.

"An bonzer scoreline present astatine Twickenham," Cox said.

"How bash you retrieve from this? An embarrassing nighttime for the men successful black. The satellite champions person obliterated New Zealand. What a statement."

South Africa 35 (Siya Kolisi, Kurt-Lee Arendse, Malcolm Marx, Bongi Mbonambi, Kwagga Smith tries; Manie Libbok 5 conversions) New Zealand 7