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Steve Hansen on All Blacks' 17th successive Test win

New Zealand coach Steve Hansen refused to get carried away despite seeing the All Blacks secure a record-equalling 17th successive Test win.

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New Zealand coach Steve Hansen refused to get carried away despite seeing the All Blacks secure a record-equalling 17th successive Test win with a 57-15 hammering of South Africa.

Hansen's men rounded off their Rugby Championship campaign in style with a dominant performance in Durban on Saturday, the 42-point margin of victory New Zealand's biggest against the Springboks.

The emphatic triumph saw New Zealand become the first team to take maximum points in a Rugby Championship tournament, a competition in which they scored a record 38 tries and 262 points across the six games.

Hansen said: "We'll enjoy the moment. We've managed to play some quality rugby and make some people proud.

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"It's better than the last one, but it's not perfect so we won't get too carried away."

Captain Kieran Read was in more of a celebratory mood, though, saying: "To come to South Africa and score a victory like that, it won't come again I don't think, so you've just got to be stoked.

"This is a great bunch of men and I'm privileged to be leading them. I'm loving what we're doing right now."

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