Team of the Week:

15. Andrea Marcato (Italy): Showed great skill and courage under the high ball in awful conditions in Cape Town and kicked with more accuracy than Luca Toni.

14. Sitiveni Sivivatu (New Zealand): Impossible to stop when he comes off his wing looking for work. Showed great hands to take an inside pass from Carter to set up Nonu's try.

13. Richard Kahui (New Zealand): Scored a try on debut, ran intelligent lines, took an intercept and smashed into his opposite Mike Tindall. Also left his mark on luckless England fullback Mathew Tait, who left the field looking like a 14-year-old who had lost his first fight..

12. Ma'a Nonu (New Zealand): Still doing all the good things (bumping off tacklers and offloading) but now without the bad things (wild passes, crazy tackles). Biggest transformation since Karl Lagerfeld.

11. Bryan Habana (South Africa): Set up the first try with a blistering run, weaving his way through traffic at high speed. Still under-employed for some reason, although the elements played their part.

10. Dan Carter (New Zealand): Another try, another perfect kicking display. Blotted performance by messing up first-half bomb, if you want to be picky, which we are.

9. Ricky Januarie (South Africa): Sniping, aggressive pest, as all good halfbacks are. Speed to the breakdown and distribution was outstanding.

8. Luke Narraway (England): The best performer in an England back-row unit that has made a name for itself in the past two weeks. Was the tourists' most effective ball carrier and aggressive tackler.

7. Robert Barberi (Italy): The stocky opensider epitomised a brave performance by the severely undermanned Italian pack against the world champions. Fought for every scrap and kept the likes of Juan Smith and Luke Watson subdued.

6. Adam Thomson (New Zealand): Worked well in tandem with Richie McCaw (until he got injured) as a left/right breakaway combination and followed the ball all night like it owed him money.

5. Victor Matfield (South Africa): It would be easier if the opposition hooker just handed him the ball at lineout time, although that would spoil the fun of watching his Inspector Gadget-style arms at work.

4. Bakkies Botha (South Africa): The schoolyard bully of the Springboks pack threw his weight around with the usual venom. Could be a henchman for a Bond villain.

3. Greg Somerville (New Zealand): Has cemented his spot as the successor to Carl Hayman. All Blacks scrum appears to have lost little, except's Hayman's world-class beard.

2. Bismarck du Plessis: (South Africa): Try machine dotted down for two tries, bringing his tally to three in two weeks. Immensely strong, but still has work to do to displace captain John Smith.

1. Tony Woodcock: (New Zealand): The Myth played 40 minutes on the comeback trail from injury and destroyed England's truly mythical tight-head Matt Stevens. Will be looking forward to butting heads with old mates CJ van der Linde and Matt Dunning in the Tri Nations.