Watch France Vs New Zealand Live on 23rd Oct 2011: Rugby World Cup Final Live

Watch France Vs New Zealand Live from Auckland on 23rd Oct 2011, Rugby World Cup Live at Eden Park, New Zealand. New Zealand captain Richie McCaw calls on his side to "play the best game we've ever played" against France in the World Cup final in Auckland on Sunday.

Watch France Vs New Zealand Live on 23rd Oct 2011, Rugby World Cup Live Scores and reports on BBC website plus live text commentaries on all home nations matches; updates on BBC Radio 5 live; watch live on ITV1/ITV4, live commentary on TalkSport radio but also on TF1.

Starting Teams:

New Zealand: 15 Mils Muliaina, 14 Cory Jane, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma'a Nonu, 11 Sonny Bill Williams, 10 Colin Slade, 9 Piri Weepu, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw (c), 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Brad Thorn, 4 Samuel Whitelock, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Keven Mealamu, 1 Tony Woodcock.
Replacements: 16 Andrew Hore, 17 Ben Franks, 18 Ali Williams, 19 Victor Vito, 20 Jimmy Cowan, 21 Aaron Cruden, 22 Isaia Toeava.

France: 15 Maxime Médard, 14 Vincent Clerc, 13 Aurélien Rougerie, 12 Maxime Mermoz, 11 Alexis Palisson, 10 Morgan Parra, 9 Dimitri Yachvili, 8 Imanol Harinordoquy, 7 Julien Bonnaire, 6 Thierry Dusautoir (capt), 5 Lionel Nallet, 4 Pascal Pape, 3 Nicolas Mas, 2 William Servat, 1 Jean-Baptiste Poux.
Replacements: 16 Dimitri Szarzewski, 17 Fabien Barcella, 18 Julien Pierre, 19 Louis Picamoles, 20 Francois Trinh-Duc, 21 David Marty, 22 Cedric Heymans.

Novak Djokovic: New king of the planet tennis

Novak Djokovic, who won the US Open on Monday, has now won 64 matches this year, with three Grand Slam trophies.

The actual world number one has also won seven other minor tournaments, and one of two defeats was due to an injury retirement.
After the US Open victory, Joe McEnroe declared: "He bewildered Nadal. I've never seen Nadal look as if he doesn't know what to do and, even on clay in Rome, Djokovic made him look like that.

"Wimbledon was where he separated himself and took himself to a whole new level. Djokovic is definitely having the greatest year in the history of our sport." The American is someone who should know after winning 82 matches in 1984 and losing just three times.

Djokovic, 24, broke that record this year by going 43 games unbeaten, ending with a semi-final loss to Roger Federer in the French Open in May.

Wimbledon 2011 Nadal disappointed by final loss :

Rafael Nadal admits his opponent Novak Djokovic was a worthy winner in the 2011 Wimbledon men's singles final.

Djokovic won the match in four sets, 6-4, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3, to extend his winning run over the Spaniard to five matches as he takes over at the top of the world rankings.

That has helped see Djokovic replace Nadal at the top of the world rankings and the Spaniard admitted his rival has had the edge in the big points.

"When I was 100% to play, I lost against him five times," said Nadal. "The rest of the year I won almost every match. So I'm doing things very well, but probably not against him. That's what I have to change.

"Probably the mental part is a little bit dangerous for me, because when I was at 5-4 (in the first set), I played a bad game from 30-0. When I was 4-3 down in the fourth set, I played another bad game with my serve.

"To win these kind of matches, I have to play well (at those moments). These kind of points can change the match.

Wimbledon 2011 Djokovic new king of the grass :

Two-time Australian champion Djokovic now has three Grand Slam titles to his name and has won an astonishing 48 out of 49 matches in 2011.

His 41 consecutive wins - until that one defeat to Roger Federer in Paris - included four over Nadal in the finals of Masters Series events, two of them on the Spaniard's favoured clay.

But Nadal had not been beaten at Wimbledon since a five-set loss to Federer in the final of 2007, and his record against Djokovic in grand slams was 5-0.

The first set went with serve as both men found their range right from the off.

But the Serbian slowly began to come out on top in the long, thumping rallies, and two stunning forehand winners took him to 30-30 with his opponent serving to stay in the first set.

Suddenly Nadal cracked, dumping a tame shot into the net to hand Djokovic the set point and then missing with his favourite forehand down the line.

A lucky net cord took Nadal to 0-30 in the opening game of the second set but Djokovic was like a rock, and it was Nadal who was making the errors - more of them than he had in four sets of his semi-final against Andy Murray.

Djokovic guaranteed he would be world number one in the new rankings when he beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the last four and he followed up by outplaying defending champion Nadal on Centre Court on Sunday.

"For these kind of days, I was practising every day, being dedicated, being a tennis professional," he said.

"Any athlete in the world dreams of being number one. This is something that gives us a lot of motivation. So finally when you really do it and when you know that you're the best, it's just an amazing achievement."