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Harry Latham-Coyle

Will Jordan joins exclusive try-scoring club as New Zealand find the perfect ‘combination’

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It’s pretty illustrious company. The World Cup semi-final between New Zealandand Argentina may come to be a contest best forgotten, but All Blacks wing Will Jordan will remember it as the night where he joined a group of try-scoring greats - and should have surpassed them.

With a hat-trick in Paris, Jordan became the fourth member of an exclusive club, in alongside Bryan Habana, Julian Savea and Jonah Lomu as the only men to have scored eight tries in a single tournament. With 31 tries in 30 Tests, it is a statistical probability that the All Black takes the record outright in the final.

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