Marcus Smith’s stunning intercept helped set-up a length-of-the-field special as yet another Immanuel Feyi-Waboso try pushed England into the lead against New Zealand.

Smith had a mixed afternoon with a couple of uncharacteristic sloppy kicks and miscued drop-goal attempts but when he collected All Black scrum-half Cortez Ratima’s pass from the base early in the second half he sprinted into New Zealand territory.

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Smith, who went virtually from 22 to 22, eventually double pumped to hold the attention of covering All Blacks outside centre Rieko Ioane before passing inside to his supporting full-back, George Furbank – this month’s Rugby World cover star.

Northampton Saints captain Furbank was quick to shift the ball inside to speedster Feyi-Waboso and despite a fellow lightning back-three star in Will Jordan’s best efforts he managed to race over to give England the lead four minutes into the second half.

The score was Feyi-Waboso’s fifth Test try on just his seventh appearance for his country. It really has been a remarkable rise for the Cardiff-born 21-year-old who was plying his trade at Taunton Titans in the third tier two years’ ago alongside his medical studies at Exeter University.

The Feyi-Waboso try was England’s first of the afternoon and the Autumn Nations Series as all the previous 12 points had come from the boot of fly-half Marcus Smith.

New Zealand, however, scored two first-half tries through wing Mark Tele’a, who outpaced Ellis Genge down the wing, and full-back Jordan who capitalised after Beauden Barrett switched the play and then dropped the ball off to his team-mate.

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