The Springboks forwards are rumbling for metres...can they get over?

OOOFT.

Just as Mike says that, Damian McKenzie sees the opportunity to get outside that blitz defence with the boot and goes for the cross-kick but it's straight into touch. This will be a big platform for the Springboks.

Oh hold on. TMO calls in that Anton Lienert-Brown actually got a touch so not quite as good a position.

Mike Henson
BBC Sport senior rugby union reporter

Whatever the final scoreline in this Greatest Rivalry series, the All Blacks have shown the rest of the rugby world that the Springbok blitz defence can be beaten by combining quicksilver hands and depth in the backline.

That Codie Taylor try was created by some breath-taking tiki-taka catch-pass on a blindside thrust.

It is a high-wire act, but New Zealand pulled it off.

The scrum looks like it might be creaking but Karl Dickson is definitive as he shouts it's going sideways.

Solid enough start in that department, all told, for the All Blacks.

Etzebeth gets up to steal the line-out but it's sloppy from De Allende as the centre spills it forward.

First scrum of the game. Be interesting to see how this one goes.

Good handling from the All Blacks but what an intervention that is from Ox Nche.

He tosses Tupou Vaa'i back on the South African side and Eben Etzebeth is there for the turnover.

New Zealand had the advantage and will go again...

No Cheslin Kolbe today but Damian Willemse is a handy replacement.

He deals with the restart well and kicks clear to give New Zealand the line-out.

All Blacks are having to be patient though, as they look for holes.

Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu has started confidently and South Africa are running it whenever they can.

The fly-half is hit with a high tackle but he dusts himself down and knocks over the early penalty.

If you had 48 seconds for our first minor scuffle of the game...congratulations!

From the kick-off, the Boks run it back and win the penalty. They'll go down the line and attack from in the All Blacks' half.

With a blast of Karl Dickson's whistle, we're under way in Baltimore.

Richie Mo'unga kicks to South Africa and away we go!

Don't know if anyone does a better impression of indifference when facing the haka than Pieter-Steph du Toit.

Looks like he could be waiting for a slightly delayed bus.

Massive cheers for the South African anthem. This is notionally a home game for the Boks and it sure feels like it in these pre-game exchanges.

Time for the haka as Codie Taylor leads the All Blacks in his first Test as skipper.

Just a reminder of those teams and officials before we get under way.

South Africa: Damian Willemse; Kurt-Lee Arendse, Jesse Kriel, Damian de Allende, Ethan Hooker; Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, Morne van den Berg; Ox Nche, Malcolm Marx, Wilco Louw, Eben Etzebeth, Ruan Nortje, Siya Kolisi (capt), Pieter-Steph du Toit, Jasper Wiese.

Replacements: Deon Fourie, Gerhard Steenekamp, Thomas du Toit, Lood de Jager, Andre Esterhuizen, Cameron Hanekom, Cobus Reinach, Manie Libbok.

New Zealand: Damian McKenzie, Will Jordan, Anton Lienert-Brown, Jordie Barrett, Josh Moorby; Richie Mo’unga, Cam Roigard; Ethan de Groot; Codie Taylor (capt), Fletcher Newell, Patrick Tuipulotu, Sam Darry, Tupou Vaa'i, Ethan Blackadder, Peter Lakai.

Replacements: Asafo Aumua, Xavier Numia, Tyrel Lomax, Josh Lord, Wallace Sititi, Kyle Preston, Rieko Ioane, Beauden Barrett.

Referee: Karl Dickson (England)

Assistant referees: Matthew Carley (England), Christophe Ridley (England)

TMO: Andrew Jackson (England)

The players are out for the anthems with the kick-off now only five minutes away...

Whether it be the Solheim Cup or the Irish Open, it's a big golfing weekend.

Well, there's a touch of it here too with Open champions Ryan Fox and Louis Oosthuizen serving as flag-bearers in Baltimore.

The 71,000-strong crowd this evening will be a record for a rugby game in the USA, but it is far from the first big Test to be staged in the country.

Ireland famously beat the All Blacks for the first time in their history in Chicago 10 years ago, and the fixture was repeated in the Windy City last November.

With the World Cup to be staged in America in 2031, there was talk this week that a Six Nations fixture could even be held Stateside in the years to come.

World Rugby's chief executive Alan Gilpin used the example of Ireland v Italy as a game that would appeal to the American market, although the unions in question have quickly distanced themselves from the controversial idea.

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Experienced English referee Karl Dickson will be the man in the middle this evening.

No stranger to the big occasion, he took charge of this fixture last year with the All Blacks winning 24-17 at Eden Park.

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This is later than most of us are used to watching our rugby.

But I'll be honest, 'Rugby's Greatest Rivalry' or not, we're not long off it being later than I'm used to being awake.

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