All Blacks face Boks in series decider without key loose forwards

In the long rivalry between New Zealand and South Africa, two rugby nations whose identities are bound to the game itself, a fourth and deciding Test looms in Baltimore — a city far from the ancestral grounds of either tradition. The All Blacks arrive wounded, missing their captain and a trusted lieutenant, yet carrying a tactical blueprint drawn from the one moment in this series when South Africa's fortress cracked. What unfolds on Sunday will ask whether experience can be replaced by hunger, and whether a team can execute its best rugby precisely when the margin for error has disappeared.