But for the try-scoring exploits of debutant forwards Sam Burgess and Maurie Fa'asavalu, Gareth Raynor's extraordinary touchdown would have been the big talking point of Great Britain's first Test win.
The 29-year-old Hull winger chased from halfway a speculative kick from Rob Burrow and pounced for the all-important score when Kiwi debutant full-back Sam Perrett hesitated in making the ball dead.
Perrett claimed afterwards that the Great Britain star had crept up on him and completely failed to hear his approaching footsteps.
Raynor said: "If I had made a noise, he would have kicked it out or picked it up.
"I guess it was a bit of luck. It was a great kick by Rob and we got the bounce.
"I'll chase all day if I have to. Sometimes it comes off, sometimes it doesn't - that time it did. Maybe it changed the game a little bit."
Raynor's try enabled Britain to turn a 10-8 half-time deficit into a 14-10 lead as they went on to secure a 20-14 victory and he will be hoping for similar luck when he wins his sixth cap on his home ground in Saturday's second Test at the KC Stadium.
The former Leeds winger, who once had a brief spell in rugby union with Leicester, is running into form at the right time, having finished the engage Super League season with nine tries in the last seven matches after scoring just five in his first 21, but he does not take his place in the Great Britain team for granted.
"Once you think you're established, that's when you become complacent and I will never ever become complacent," he said. "Every time I play I give 100%, like it's my first Test again.
"That's just me. You get out what you put in."
It was Raynor's never-say-die character that gave him his first big break in rugby league at the age of 21.
He was playing for his local amateur club Castleford Panthers and working as a part-time postman when he was granted a trial at Headingley.
"I wrote to Leeds and a few more clubs asking for a trial," he recalled. "I went for a few training sessions and after the second game Leeds decided to sign me.
"I was pretty lucky. If hadn't written that letter, I probably wouldn't be here now. It's funny what a bit of paper and a pen can do.
"I guess I'm lucky to get where I am. I never give in and that's what I'm like on the field."
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