1.   British rugby union teams have suffered their worst test defeats on record this summer but the nightmare is not over yet.

2.   England has lost every match on tour including two record test defeats to Australia and New Zealand.

3.   Fellow spinner Danish Kaneria chipped in with a haul of four wickets, leaving the hosts to face an uphill task of avoiding yet another test defeat.

4.   For India this was its second consecutive test defeat after suffering a reversal in the second test against Zimbabwe in Harare, Zimbabwe, in June.

5.   It was the third consecutive test defeat for Italy, which will join the Five Nations competition next year in the renamed Six Nations.

6.   It was the third successive test defeat and sixth defeat in seven matches played by a luckless France in their tour of Papua New Guinea, Australia and Fiji.

7.   Only eight players who took part in the Australian test defeat will walk out onto Eden Park Saturday.

8.   The incident kept Pienaar out for three weeks, including the first test defeat to the All Blacks in Dunedin.