New Zealand 21-16 England

New Zealand 21-16 EnglandEngland’s senior players are off the Colorado next month to prepare for the World Cup at high altitude. Their Under-20 team have scaled a couple of peaks themselves recently by winning the last two world junior titles. But in the northern Italian town of Cremona it was the young New Zealanders who reached loftier heights.The Baby Blacks were favourites to win the final and deserved their victory but Jon Callard’s team were more than honourable in defeat. Maro Itoje, the Saracen who was last year’s victorious Under-20 captain, has already forced his way into the senior …