Head to head: There will be mouth-watering duels all over the park, but without question the breakdown battle between New Zealand’s Richie McCaw and Australia’s David Pocock will have everyone licking their lips in anticipation. They go by various names: fetchers, snafflers, pilferers. They’re openside flankers and the Rugby World Cup will deliver one of its most compelling individual contests when the best in the world in that position face-off in this do-or-die spectacle. This master versus apprentice face-off has the ingredients of sports’ greatest confrontations.
Recent Results:
2011: Australia won 20-25, Brisbane
2011: New Zealand won 30-14, Auckland
2010: Australia won 26-24, Hong Kong
2010: New Zealand won 23-22, Sydney
2010: New Zealand won 20-10, Christchurch
2010: New Zealand won 49-28, Melbourne
2009: New Zealand won 32-19, Tokyo
2009: New Zealand won 33-6, Wellington
2009: New Zealand won 19-18, Sydney
2009: New Zealand won 22-16, Auckland
2008: New Zealand won 19-14, Hong Kong
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