SYDNEY -- In the 40th and final pool game of the 2003 Rugby World Cup played at a cold Telstra Stadium on Sunday night, New Zealand beat Wales 53-37 in a cracker of a game.

News photoNew Zealand's Joe Rokocoko dives over to score the first try against Wales during their Rugby World Cup Pool D match in Sydney.

With end-to-end action and both sides running the ball at every opportunity, Joe Rokocoko, Doug Howlett and Shane Williams carried on where Fijian Rupeni Caucau left off on Saturday, giving the crowd of 80,012 a wonderful lesson in the art of wing play, on an evening when the teams combined to score 90 points.