But an almighty hit by Muliaina on Bradley Davies knocked the ball out of the lock's grasp and set New Zealand away on another dangerous counter-attack.

BBC: Wales 25-37 New Zealand

First Phil Dowson went on a barrelling run and then, in a passage of play that epitomised the free-flowing nature of the game, James Simpson-Daniel broke from deep for Gloucester before Saints lock Courtney Lawes stole the ball and fed Bruce Reihana.

BBC: Northampton 30-24 Gloucester

The Kiwi lock followed through quickly to ground the ball for his side's third try, beating Gethin Jenkins and the covering Arias to the touchdown.

BBC: Blues 31-21 Stade Francais

Barkley missed three long-range penalties inside 12 minutes but when Sale's replacement lock Brent Cockbain was sent to the sin-bin for killing the ball he found the target with the 25-metre penalty.

BBC: Gloucester 24-17 Sale

But he was on target two minutes later from a penalty which saw Bath lock Peter Short sent to the sin bin for pulling back Blues number eight Xavier Rush off the ball.

BBC: Bath 6-14 Blues

Hogg went over the line after receiving replacement Matt Mustchin's pass but the lock forward was adjudged by the television match official to have been in touch when he released the ball.

BBC: Edinburgh 27-16 Leinster

Leinster suffered a blow 10 minutes before half-time when lock Leo Cullen received a yellow card for taking out a support player as Scott Morgan gathered a lineout ball but Dragons were unable to make their numerical advantage count.

BBC: Leinster 27-6 Dragons