New Zealand’s current resurgence has seen the All Blacks climb above World Cup hosts France into second place on World Rugby’s newest Check rankings.

The All Blacks retained the Rugby Championship and the Bledisloe Cup following a complete 38-7 victory over Australia in Melbourne.

It was New Zealand’s third win in a row and noticed the All Blacks stretch their unbeaten run to 10 video games. Ian Foster’s aspect final suffered a defeat in August 2022 in opposition to Argentina in Christchurch.

New Zealand solely gained 0.45 factors for the win however that was nonetheless sufficient to carry them above France as they now have 90.77 ranking factors in comparison with Les Bleus’ 90.47. Eire’s lead on the high has been lower to simply 1.05 factors.

It was additionally a major weekend for Fiji as they climbed again into the world’s high 10 for the primary time for the reason that begin of the 2019 World Cup following a 33-19 win over Samoa in Apia.

With 1.51 factors gained, Fiji’s improved ranking of 76.86 factors has seen them commerce locations with Samoa whereas additionally leapfrogging Japan and Georgia.

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