Cape Town – Scotland gave the world champion All Blacks a serious run for their money in Edinburgh on Saturday night but fell to a 22-17 defeat. 

It was a brave performance from the hosts, who had exchanged blows with Steve Hansen’s men to go into the half-time break deadlocked at 3-3. 

The All Blacks got the job done in the second half, though. 

The visitors scored three second half tries through Codie Taylor, Damian McKenzie and Beauden Barrett while Scotland scored two tries of their own through Jonny Gray and Huw Jones.

More to follow…

Scorers:

Scotland 17 (3)

Tries: Jonny Gray, Huw Jones

Conversions: Finn Russell (2)

Penalty: Russell

All Blacks 22 (3)

Tries: Codie Taylor, Damian McKenzie, Beauden Barrett

Conversions: Barrett (2)

Penalty: Barrett

Teams:

Scotland

15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Tommy Seymour, 13 Huw Jones, 12 Alex Dunbar, 11 Lee Jones, 10 Finn Russell, 9 Ali Price, 8 Cornell du Preez, 7 Hamish Watson, 6 John Barclay (captain), 5 Jonny Gray, 4 Ben Toolis, 3 Zander Fagerson, 2 Stuart McInally, 1 Darryl Marfo

Substitutes: 16 George Turner, 17 Jamie Bhatti, 18 Simon Berghan, 19 Grant Gilchrist, 20 Luke Hamilton, 21 Henry Pyrgos, 22 Pete Horne, 23 Byron McGuigan

New Zealand

15 Damian McKenzie, 14 Waisake Naholo, 13 Ryan Crotty, 12 Sonny Bill Williams, 11 Rieko Ioane, 10 Beauden Barrett, 9 Aaron Smith, 8 Kieran Read (captain), 7 Sam Cane, 6 Vaea Fifita, 5 Samuel Whitelock, 4 Luke Romano, 3 Nepo Laulala, 2 Codie Taylor, 1 Kane Hames

Substitutes: 16 Nathan Harris, 17 Wyatt Crockett, 18 Ofa Tu’ungafasi, 19 Liam Squire, 20 Matt Todd, 21 TJ Perenara, 22 Lima Sopoaga, 23 Anton Lienert-Brown