PRIDE KINGS to share spoils

backs making their first Test starts, Ngani Laumape and Jordie Barrett, both on the scoresheet for a 12-6 half-time lead.

But after sending on CJ Stander at half time for Sean O’Brien, who suffered shoulder damage, the gutsy Lions pulled to within three points when Elliot Daly landed a huge penalty from inside his own half.

And they drew level on the hour with the All Blacks a man down after the sin-binning of Jerome Kaino for a swinging-arm tackle which dazed Alun Wyn Jones.

The Wales second row, who went off as a result of the incident, reappeared as a t emporary substitute f or Warburton late on after somehow passing a head injury assessment.

Beauden Barrett edged New Zealand 15-12 in front in the 67th minute when Lions replacement prop Kyle Sinckler was adjudged t o have dropped the scrum.

But the All Blacks stand-off’s t wo first-half misses came back to haunt him when the deadly Farrell hammered over another 45-metre kick with the series on the line.

“You know what the kick means but I don’t think anything changes for you as a kicker,” said Farrell.

“I had been hitting them okay so I was happy. It was a long kick, but I was just trying to strike it well. It feels a bit weird really.

“It is a brilliant achievement but at the same time it is never nice to be on the end of a draw.”

The outcome left a sense anti-climax in the stadium.

But at the end of a compelling series there was something fitting about Warburton and All Blacks skipper Kieran Read, who won his 100th cap yesterday, lifting the trophy together. of