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By Gregor Paul at Eden Park In typical Beauden Barrett fashion, he played a winning hand in his 30-minute cameo at Eden Park – effectively rescued a game that was slipping away and preserved the game’s most astonishing home record – and yet brushed it all off as another day at the office. As New Zealand Rugby hunts for self-promoting heroes who can sell themselves to a global audience, they might find Barrett is an enigma who captivates with his on-field brilliance but isn’t interested in talking himself up. His reaction to his own performance was muted and unremarkable – in stark contrast to his brilliance beforehand, where he broke the All Blacks out of the territory deadlock England held them by booting 60 metres down the field and then nailing fullback Freddie Steward.

He made a number of other telling kicks, set up the winning try with a stunning linebreak and saved the day in the last play by getting himself tangled in an England maul..

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