Rugby: Carter guides All Blacks home in Tokyo

Daniel Carter kicked six penalties and two conversions for a total of 20 points to guide the All Blacks to a 32-19 victory of the Wallabies. Photo / Getty Images

New Zealand 32
Australia 19

A perfect goalkicking display from Daniel Carter led the All Blacks to a Bledisloe Cup rugby cleansweep against the Wallabies with a 32-19 win in Tokyo tonight.

The All Blacks first five-eighth kicked eight from eight for 22-point haul to guide home a 4-0 series sweep and their seventh consecutive victory against their trans-Tasman foes.

In the teams' first meeting at Tokyo's National Stadium, just several hundred short of a 48,000 sellout, the All Blacks defended superbly as the Wallabies crossed their line just once through Peter Hynes when his opposite Sitiveni Sivivatu was sinbinned for a high tackle.

The All Blacks scored tries to injury returnees Sivivatu and Conrad Smith, both converted by Carter who added six penalties including two in the final 10 minutes to make the test safe.

Carter's opposite Matt Giteau kicked five from six, for 14 points.

Captain Richie McCaw as usual was a dominant figure and was named man of the match.

The reshuffled Wallabies showed plenty more spirit at the breakdown than in their 6-33 hiding in Wellington and competed strongly up front, but again rued a lack of finishing against a stout All Blacks defence. They scrummaged powerfully but the All Blacks' lineout shaded the Wallabies' with several wins against the throw.

The All Blacks played up the significance of the venue in the test leadup, the scene of Peter Snell's double gold medals at the 1964 Olympics.

Having lost their first choice centre pairing Stirling Mortlock (calf) and Berrick Barnes (ankle), the Wallabies suffered a further setback before kickoff when first choice hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau was relegated to the bench with a sore achilles tendon.

Stephen Moore took his place as the run-on hooker, before Polota-Nau was introduced in the 49th minute.

Referee Mark Lawrence stamped an early mark on a stop-start first half, penalising the All Blacks five times in the first 10 minutes as Giteau goaled two of them for an early 6-0 lead.

After a sluggish start, the All Blacks warmed to their task and after a Carter penalty began to threaten the Wallabies' line.

They took the lead in the 21st minute via Sivivatu who dived over out wide after McCaw handled twice including an in-pass to send Tom Donnelly away.

But after a third Giteau penalty made it 10-9, Sivivatu turned villain in the 34th minute when he dumped Adam Ashley-Cooper on his shoulder and Lawrence reached for his pocket.

The Wallabies seized the advantage immediately when halfback Will Genia flung a long pass to Sivivatu's vacant flank and Hynes touched down just inside the corner in Jimmy Cowan's covering tackle.

After several video replays and a long delay, Hynes was given the benefit of the doubt as to whether he'd grounded the ball.

It broke the Wallabies' tryscoring drought against the All Blacks which ticked over 270 minutes.

The All Blacks held off a late Wallabies charge just before halftime and the impressive Cowan's good work held up Wycliff Palu over the line after a big Australian scrum.

Sivivatu's return just after the break sparked the All Blacks and they reclaimed the lead with a slick Smith try who brushed off young fullback James O'Connor after a neat pop pass from Cory Jane.

The All Blacks twice went close to scoring but Sivivatu and Kieran Read -- who replaced Rodney So'oialo in the 53rd minute -- both lost the ball. Read made an instant impact and his huge tackle on George Smith snuffed out a dangerous raid.

Carter extended the lead to seven points with a quarter remaining his third penalty from wide out as the All Blacks began to take charge and never relinquished the converted try margin.

New Zealand 32(Sitiveni Sivivatu, Conrad Smith tries; Daniel Carter 6 pen, 2 con) Australia 19 (Peter Hynes try; Matt Giteau 4 pen, con). Halftime: 13-16.

- NZPA