Charlie Hodgson replied with four penalties and England put on enough pressure on with their 14 men for Marty Holah to be tempted to infringe and earn 10 minutes in the sinbin before Carlos Spencer had the final word.  

The red card for Shaw came after England had pushed New Zealand onto the back foot with some superb early passages of play with Charlie Hodgson kicking penalties in the fifth and seven minutes. 

Even without Shaw, England managed to be much more competitive and led until Daniel Carter replied with a penalty in the 13th minute. 

They thumped the All Blacks in the tackle and forced them back up the pitch where Hodgson fired off a drop-goal attempt that was skewed wide of the right hand post.

But with an extra man, New Zealand looked to move the play wide and England were cut apart down the right by Rokocoko’s brilliant break with Carter forcing his way over despite the attention of two tacklers and then getting up to thread over the conversion from wide out on the half-hour.

The injuries were piling up too with the impressive Stuart Abbott (shoulder) replaced by Wasps teammate Fraser Waters and Mike Tindall (hip) replaced by Olly Barkley five minutes before the break.

Their rearguard action was undermined fatally early in the second half when a sweeping All Black attack after Jono Gibbes’s lineout take saw Rokocoko slide into the left hand corner and Carter add another superb conversion.

Despite the tackles flying in they were stung again in the 55th minute when Rokocoko scored again after the tourists were overloaded on the left and Carter was again on target with the extra points.

England’s now had a very inexperienced look as they threw on replacements with Sale’s Andy Titterrell winning his first cap, Matt Stevens on for Trevor Woodman, Steve Borthwick for Joe Worsley and Matt Dawson for Andy Gomarsall.

Hodgson, though, earned some reward for a valiant rearguard action scoreboard with two more penalties in the 58th and 61st minutes.

Rokocoko, though, wasn’t finished and added his third try in the 65th minute when he leapt above Josh Lewsey to claim Carlos Spencer’s hanging crosskick.

The sides were levelled up at 14-men each for the closing stages when Holah was banished for coming round the wrong side of a ruck.

England, though, were too disjointed by then to take any real advantage and lost more ground when Spencer grabbed New Zealand’s fifth try to reinforce the superiority of the world’s new No1 ranked team over the World Champions.